Day 181 12/14/24, Sail out with friends.
Day out
Had nice peaceful sailing afternoon. Wind 5-10kn, no unexpected gusts. our speed up to 4.5kn about a half time.
Ready to go
It is me ;-)
Day 183 1/5/25 Take engine home.
Engine Take engine from the boat and move to home garage. Easy to say, hard to do. Water level in the lake now is 40ft below normal level. And total height drop between parking lot and docks about 70-80ft. Marina has no lift, ramp or crane to move something more than 200 lb up way. Only way is very long stairs with 140 steps. View form the parking lot... Staircase we climbed up. Yes, you can see the lift, but it is only 200lb capacity and no way to use. Picture was made on the middle of the process. Based on engine spec it has to weight 400 lb. It is a lot but should be more or less bearable weight for 3-4 people. Challenge was accepted, but looks like it is heavy enough to do a problem ;-) Moving from boat to dock was very easy, just hook chain hoist to boom lift it and swing boom to the dock. put on a dolly and roll it to staircase. After an hour of planning we (My son and I) decided to use blocks and ropes to slide it up. We mounted engine on the plywo...
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