Boat Stands - placed OK?

thegammas · Post by **thegammas** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:43 pm

So i am putting my sea lancer up on stands to service the trailer. Going to be putting a lot of miles on it this season (hopefully). I need to extend the bunks past the transom, etc. But I am totally paranoid of hooking the bottom, especially on the front stands (plus, at some point I'll be under it while on those stands).

If anyone has a moment. please go to http://home.comcast.net/~gammasjunk/wsb/index.html
and look at the high light photos -tell me what you think. Is the boat supported well? In these photos, it's actually floating above the trailer.

txcaptdan · Post by **txcaptdan** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:26 pm

Your rear stands look great, I would get a support under the keel as soon as you pull trailer. I supported my 20' hull without engine with two supports under the transom like you have and only one support under keel at bow. I lowered the trailer tounge all the way and set supports at transom, then raised trailer tounge until the trailer rear tilted away from the transom.
I used a comealong to lift the bow until it raised off trailer, I then pulled trailer out from under boat.
I left comealong attached as a safety line but weight was carried on keel.
I would set a support under keel to cary weight and use your front supports to balance and stabalize.
Nice work, what you have got going should be fine.

thegammas · Post by **thegammas** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:23 am

Thanks Dan - I like that approach to get the boat off the trainer - I've been struggling with how to get it off . I actually have a come along I can use. I was planning to do just what you say, I'll have a jack stand under the keel at about where the stem cap and keel cap meet, side stands stabilize.

You cant see it in the lousy pictures, but I set up the front stands so that I can place a scissors jack under the post and raise the boat with those stands. Not sure I'll ever need that feature, but...

thegammas · Post by **thegammas** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:45 am

Also, Where did you attach the comealong to the bow? On the deck cleat, the eye hook on the stem?

JSC · Post by **JSC** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:42 pm

Hey Peter -
When I lifted my Offshore off the trailer, I used one of those nylon towing straps (the one that says "Not for lifting" on the package). I attached one end to an eyebolt screwed into a pretty herfy joist and attached the other end to a comealong, which was attached to another eyebolt. It gave me plenty of lift and was very stable. I supported the bow with one of those metal saw horses, left the towing strap on forward of midship, wedged a couple of 4x4's under the bottom at midship and laid a beam (two 2x4's on edge attached to a flat 2x6) laid across two metal sawhorses at the very edge of the stern. Your system looks professional!

thegammas · Post by **thegammas** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:19 pm

thanks for the compliment - I tend to over engineer things - like these stands - your approach probably took a fraction of the time and is/was just as effective. But they were fun to build.

txcaptdan · Post by **txcaptdan** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:44 pm

Peter
Cruisers Incs have a front deck cleat that is a lifting ring that has a long shaft that bolts to the Keel.
You might be able to run a stap through the eye ring on front of boat.

a j r · Post by **a j r** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:09 am

If the boat has a true lifting ring, one that is attached to the keelson/stem by a rod, sure, go ahead and use it for a lifting point. That's why it's there. I do it all the time. However, if it's just a cleat screwed or bolted to the deck framing, do NOT use it for hoisting. You'll rip er right out of the deck.

Andreas

thegammas · Post by **thegammas** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:07 am

No lifting ring/rod here. Just the deck cleat. I was thinking I would run a strap around the hull, at about where the deck cleat is, hook a chain to that, lift y the chain - in in effect, lifting from the bottom and sides.

Or maybe I'll over engineer some other solution and get back to you in three months when it's done.