[Public-List] Sorry about that but starting to plan haul out!
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Wed Sep 16 11:36:25 PDT 2015
So, an Alberg 30 is bring brought by it's owner up to the slip
adjacent the crane for haul out. He'd planned to prepare carefully,
but one of his kids needed a drive someplace that morning...his wife
wanted something picked up on the way back...anyway, he arrived at the
club just in time rather than two hours early.
This year's haul out started badly when he was unstepping the mast.
He'd dropped a turnbuckle barrel overboard, he'd nearly lost the whole
shebang by unscrewing another too far when loosening the back stay so
as to be able to pull the clevis pins... and of course he lost several
of those pins (he won't notice that till the mast is going up in the
spring) When the mast was being lifted, everyone forgot to disconnect
the wiring, so it stretched violin string taut before breaking. The
owner made a mental note to replace the exterior part he can see
broken... he won't notice that the tight wires tore out several
connections quite some distance from the exit point and he'll be
searching for breaks and shorts for hours in the spring. But he
doesn't know about that yet.
So, the boat is coming up to the jetty... he is counting on reverse
to stop her gently, but the prop picks up a loose piece of line and
stalls the engine, resulting in ramming the end of the dock. Not
hard, but hard enough to bend the anchor davit. But he won't find
that out till next spring when he tries to anchor for the first time
of the season.
The slings are worked under the boat and he steps off to photograph
haul out. the crane starts lifting, but un-noticed by anyone, one of
the hooks clips itself on his lifeline. The boat starts lifting on
one side and everybody is yelling at the operator, but he's watching
the waterline on his side and can't hear them. The boat develops a
severe list, being picked up by her port lifeline, when with a twang
she drops back onto an even keel. the bow pulpit has reared back,
bent and with one stanchion base torn out of the deck. Before the
lifeline itself breaks free of the stern pulpit, two portside
stanchions are pulled up through the deck.
There is a shocked silence, then the crew steps back aboard to unclip
the now slack lifeline from the hook. One of them slips and breaks
the ignition key off flush with the panel in the cockpit, but nobody
will notice that till next weekend when the owner tries to start the
engine to run antifreeze through it.
Gingerly this time, the crane lifts the slings again. Because the
slings were dragged to the crane by the operator's 18 year old son's
best friend, they're covered with sand and grit which now is pressed
hard against the topsides. No one can yet see that there are deep
scratches in the dark polyurethane paint being gouged as the slings
stretch.
Because of the forward slings are under the boat up forward and that
after sling is aft at the keel, the aft end takes the load first
tipping the yacht forward. In the old days every crane operator had a
short sling extender in order to cope with full keeled yachts, but
this fellow has never heard of the things. Just before the bow sling
begins to take up some load, there is a small thump heard inside the
boat. This was caused by the gallon jug of antifreeze falling over on
the cabin sole. The owner's friend had opened it in prep to run the
fluid into the engine, but of course was told this had to happen after
the boat was ashore, so he laid the jug aside, uncapped. It will take
hours that afternoon to clean the slippery stuff up - a process which
will involve a fall on the part of the owner when he jumps down below
not knowing the spill is there.
So the forward sling comes taut... there is another sound heard, this
time a sharp pop. No-one knows the cause yet, but what's happened is
that the sling has been laid on the boat such that it bore against the
knot meter through hull... naturally the spinner was in place and the
pop was the whole assembly being driven into the boat after the
through hull broke. The knot meter's manufacturer has changed the
specification on the sending units, so replacing it will be difficult
and expensive, but the owner won't know this till he orders the parts
in the spring.
The yacht begins to rise into the air. The crane swings her over the
shore toward the waiting cradle and down into it. unfortunately the
pads have been put onto the wrong stanchions so the two after ones are
far too high. They punch up into the hull, not breaching the very
strong laminate, but deflecting it enough that the seats of the main
bulkhead are broken, and the engine is shifted minutely off true. All
the owner will know about this is that the boat seems to creak like a
wooden ship during future years for no known reason, and the engine
seems to have developed a vibration that wasn't there before. Just
wearing I guess, he muses. Three years later his cutlass bearing and
after transmission bearing will both fail, for no known reason.
So the pads are sorted out, the yacht is lowered and the slings are
cast off. One of the yard workers drops the heavy ring at the end of
one of the after slings and it smashes the compass dome. He keeps his
mouth shut and nobody notices until the owner climbs aboard about an
hour later.
So there's a haul out story. I've incorporated every disaster I've
heard about with the exception of actually dropping the boat, which I
figured would be to obvious to include....
Happy haul out everybody!
Gord
#426 Surprise
Quoting "Jonathan Bresler via Public-List" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>:
> Eric,
>
> Thank you and everyone else regarding items to beware of during haul out.
> The idea of a sling strap slipping is just horrible.
>
> Could you send me the pictures as well. Just like Maurice, I am brand new
> owner this year.
>
> Jonathan #262
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Eric Chavigny via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>
>> I have some pictures of last year haul out. If you wish I send them to you.
>>
>> Give me your email adress and I ll send them to you.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> Dimanche Matin
>> #541
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Sep 15, 2015, at 09:38, via Public-List <
>> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > It is a first season with our Alberg and we have very much enjoyed the
>> boat and the lifestyle and got to adopt the old girl (Avoca 322) as ours!
>> Amazing the amount of compliments an Alberg gets over a summer! But all
>> good things come to an end and I have started planning the haul out
>> (another first for me)! On the boat there are stickers and black dots
>> affixed to the sheer that appear to identify lift points (as the stickers
>> say lift) for travel lift or crane. One point is aft of the rudder,
>> basically under the lazarette portion of the keel starting at the rear of
>> the cockpit. The other is at the front close to forward shroud area, none
>> for under the keel which seems to be the preferred lift point based on
>> searching the archives. I had issues with the keel splitting at the
>> forefoot last winter (fixed hopefully) so would really prefer to support
>> the keel if at all possible.
>> >
>> > My question is basically, where do you set the straps to lift the boat
>> with minimum stresses to the hull.
>> >
>> > Our marina is hiring our a crane for the haul out and I’m really
>> clueless on adjustment to spreaders and harness to lift out the boat but
>> there is also a travel lift at an another marina close by.
>> >
>> > So again I turn to you accumulated knowledge and wisdom for input on how
>> you go about your haul out!
>> >
>> > Thank you very much.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Maurice
>> >
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