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Delivery Day!
HR arrived around noon today...filthy with road grime and extra supports. Apparently, the driver would not take her with single 4x4s supporting the amas and a second was added on top of the first. Additionally, lines were added from the 4x4s and under the amas to augment the straps I'd used to support the amas.
A goat rope occurred trying to lift HR with the local travel lift. The Dragonfly is lifted from eye bolts in the 4 corners of the boat. In Waukegan, a strap system had been developed using 4x 10ft straps from the 4 corners and coming to a central point. This allowed the boatyard to lift her with a crane.
The travel lift, a box like device on 4 wheels, does not have a single lift point like a crane, but lifts from 4 points, each individually adjustable to allow the boat to be kept level. The travel lift works great for boats lifted using wide straps placed under, cradling, the boat. Turns out, the strap system is incompatible with the travel lift, no central point of lift. After a couple hours of monkeying with this, we finally figured it out.
The solution was to separate the strap system into 2 parts and reverse the configuration. One set through the aft lift points and the second set through the fore points leaving the strap ends loose to hook into the travel lift's points. HR was then lifted off the truck and placed in the DIY yard for some prep work to include cleaning and Hull Raiser decal removal!
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