Apparently it pays to belong to a good Club. We do, generally, the same.
Up to 5000 t (~10000 lb.) boat - you can do it for free using one of the two fixed cranes. Of course, you have to have means to move the boat from under the crane afterwards. There are service providers that would do a complete haul out (or launch), including mast unstepping (stepping), for about under $300. Or the Club can do it for you, when we hire a couple of commercial cranes and we do about 100 boats in one shot. I think the fee is ~$150 per boat. There is a lot of volunteers involved, as well, but that does not appear on the invoice. Then you do the mast yourself using a mast crane (again for free, or rather , included in the membership fees already). We do it twice a year, so, I guess, we have to be reasonably well organised. Marek (in Ottawa) From: Michael Brown via CnC-List Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:25 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List c and c 29-2 mast cap Ouch! The club here has two smaller fixed cranes and a "pole cat" - a used utility truck with a boom arm. The smallest fixed crane will do masts easily up to 30 - 32' boats. All are available for free with volunteers operating the pole cat. For haul out the club hires in two large cranes. So we get the masts unstepped and stored, the cradles brought in by forklift and laid out, the boats hauled, stored over the winter, the boats launched, the masts stepped and cradles stored for $900 on a 30' boat. It is self service for the mast unstepping / stepping and layout on the mast racks, but there always is lots of people to help.
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