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How do you put a big sailboat in and out of the water. Like maybe a sixty foot yacht. I saw some?

Posted by Havermeyer | Posted in Boats & Boating | Posted on 14-08-2005

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crane-like things at the yacht club but they didn’t look big enough to hoist a big boat. Any body know of a site where I can see pics of a big boat being hoisted or transported?
The crane-like things were just a post bolted into concrete with single arm extending from the top of the post with a cable and hook suspended from the arm, not at all like the machine Robert R so eloquently describes.