Oddly enough I have been hired to do the same thing to a 27 ft home made fibreglass sail boat. It too has a fixed keel with 1100 lbs of lead in it. In my case, however, it's nose out. Due to the owner and insurance playing games as to who is going to pay the boat has worked its 5 ft keel into the 3 ft bottom. We have tried lift bags - not enough depth, brute strength with a tow strap around the keep (so it will lift the nose as we pull) all to no avail.
Our next step is to lift it straight up with a large hoist. Once its free of the bottom we should be able to get lift bags under it enough to keep the keel out of the bottom. BTW, there is no way to get a picker truck near it which would be the easiest way. Good luck Rob At 07:48 AM 10/30/2008 -0400, you wrote: > a timber frame securing the rudder quadrant in the bilge. >Please reply with advice. Lee Haefele Do you realize that in about 40 years we will have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos and pierced navels? _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
