Winter storing on a lift...

[inbetween]

Anyone do it? Any drawbacks? My neighbor is looking for a place to store his cruiser for the winter and I'll have an empty 20000# lift. Seems like a good match maybe.

What are the possibilities of getting this

On a lift like this? (Would use a 20000# instead of this 15000#)

 

[JupiterSunsation]

Tough to fix if something goes wrong in the middle of winter. Snow collecting on the boat may add significant weight, cables snap whatever......How/Who would be able to repair the situation?

 

[insanity]

Be better off dry-racking over the winter. Too many what-ifs, and possible hassles/issues.

 

[DAREDEVIL]

WHAT THEY SAID,,,,who will take the responsability IF something happens ?!

Also ,,he needs to winterize it either way.

Nice boat u got there !!!

 

[RichL]

Tough to fix if something goes wrong in the middle of winter. Snow collecting on the boat may add significant weight, cables snap whatever......How/Who would be able to repair the situation?

I'd be even more concerned about ice accumulation.

 

[inbetween]

Tough to fix if something goes wrong in the middle of winter. Snow collecting on the boat may add significant weight, cables snap whatever......How/Who would be able to repair the situation?

I'd be even more concerned about ice accumulation.

Some good points brought up. I'm not sure if anyone would be willing or able to do any lift repairs in the winter. The ice here can be 12-20" thick, not much chance of getting any kind of equipment here. Access to the lift is basically by water not land.

On the other hand, the channel to the lake is closed (filled in) over the winter, so there is no water or ice flow and the water/ice level only goes up or down maybe 10" over the winter.

 

[inbetween]

WHAT THEY SAID,,,,who will take the responsability IF something happens ?!

Also ,,he needs to winterize it either way.

Nice boat u got there !!!

Winterization would be done. He's gotta do that wherever he stores the boat.

The Chris Craft Fittipaldi isn't mine, it's br1's (dan's) boat. He keeps it here for the summer season.

 

[SKRAMER]

Some good points brought up. I'm not sure if anyone would be willing or able to do any lift repairs in the winter. The ice here can be 12-20" thick, not much chance of getting any kind of equipment here. Access to the lift is basically by water not land.

On the other hand, the channel to the lake is closed (filled in) over the winter, so there is no water or ice flow and the water/ice level only goes up or down maybe 10" over the winter.

I would chain the lift to the poles. Wouldn't keep all the weight on the cables. Just my .02

 

[MarylandMark]

I wish you well- seems like so so so so many things could go wrong here.

 

[glassdave]

its actually pretty common here. There are several boats on lifts all winter in my area, hell even a few big cruiser/yacht types that are left in the water and just have the hulls bubbled. Theres a 400SS Formula and a 320 Baja that have always been stored on the lift in the winter next to my marina. If you take all the right precautions its no riskier than keeping it in you driveway. make sure it is properly and professionally shrink wrapped to keep ice and snow from building and also have some sort of backup safety to the cables as Kramer said.

 

[TIKI]

LOTO is full of boats on lifts through the winter...including mine...but we have covered docks to keep ice/snow off of them & not as a severe winter.

 

[Shallow Minded]

LOTO is full of boats on lifts through the winter...including mine...but we have covered docks to keep ice/snow off of them & not as a severe winter.

+1... literally thousands of boats kept this way. Only difference in your case is that it's not your boat in case something goes wrong... which could really test a friendship!

 

[baywatch]

+1... literally thousands of boats kept this way. Only difference in your case is that it's not your boat in case something goes wrong... which could really test a friendship!

I think I am the only guy on my dock that takes mine home in the winter. I have a 38' Scarab on one side of me and a 34' sutphen on the other and they live on the lift all year (Many LOTO people don't even own trailers).

A few years a ago it snowed about 18" with an inch of ice first and I was happy my boat was home safe and sound when I was viewing pictures of roofs collapsed on boats.