To start with, I am sorry to hear the news. This is awful. Our Club (Nepean Sailing Club in Ottawa, ON) does not allow any stands - only foldable cradles.
Probably for several reasons. I imagine that both stands and cradles can do well, if properly used and set up. However, the cradles need less preparation/fiddling around during the haul out. We do about 100 boats during the haul out/launch using a couple of commercial cranes and we are able to take a boat out of the water and put it in a cradle within about 10 min (7 min on average during the spring launch). Granted, this is a coordinated effort with two teams about 20-25 people each. I cannot imagine that this could be done with individual stands. Another thought - we put about 400 boats in the yard; they are tightly packed. The boats at the perimeter all face the prevailing (strong) winds to limit the windage. Knock on wood, we did not have any boat falling off the cradle even though we had some decent winds (regularly we get 50+ kt. winds during the winter). We had a boat falling off the cradle a year and a half ago, but it was in the fall (most boats were still in the water), but at that time, the wind was registered around 85-90 kt. (micro burst). Marek 1994 C270 ”Legato” Ottawa, ON From: CnC-List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Brown via CnC-List Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 19:24 To: [email protected] Cc: Michael Brown <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Stus-List Lady Down... I would be interested in some opinions on the use of stands. I am on the Launch & Haulout team at the club I am at, chair for a few years. We have required cradles for sailboats and have accepted stands for power boats by exception only. Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 14:38:32 -0500 From: "Matthew L. Wolford" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> We had four large powerboats fall off jack stands in Erie. The cradles all fared okay.
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