Tuesday 18 March Diary of a lift out Day 1

You may have noticed I've been calling this a lift out and not a haul out. This is because the marina has a different type of hydraulic lift (which was repaired this morning). It's remotely driven down a ramp into the water for you motor your keel into a pair of waiting arms, long plump arms which are then raised you are lifted horizontally. The benefit for us is we don't need to release backstays and mizzen topping lift to fit into the length as we've done in the past in a travel lift with slings.

approaching lift

in position

and we're out

ready for jet wash

autopilot through the yard

 

Ade the lift handler suggested 6pm as a good time when the tide would be high. One boat was dropped back in and as soon as he was clear we moved onto the trailer and Ade drove the lift up into the yard where we had our bottom pressure washed. There was very little fouling since we cleaned in the water 4 days ago. This took quarter of an hour. Shoring us up on chocks between Norsa and Atea took two hours; the lads left us with power hooked up and a ladder secured from ground to rear step just after 8pm.

For dinner we cycled in to town to the Biryani Restorantfor our last meal for a while when we weren't dog tired.

No rain today.