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TheFluff posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1sJG88sRE Congrats on the splash and a new home! I don't think I've ever seen a yard with a permanent 'construction' style crane like that before. 99% of the launch/haul out videos I've ever seen had some variation of a travel lift.
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The Locator posted:Congrats on the splash and a new home! I don't think I've ever seen a yard with a permanent 'construction' style crane like that before. 99% of the launch/haul out videos I've ever seen had some variation of a travel lift. Thanks! It's a pretty unusual operation even by Swedish standards. Big marinas usually use sublifts (local market dominance from domestic manufacturer) or just bigass forklifts, but a pretty big majority of recreational boats aren't at marinas, they're at cooperative boat clubs. Everyone in a hard hat and hi-vis vest you see in the video is a club member working for free. Clubs vary wildly in what kind of equipment they have for getting boats in and out of the water, but what they have in common is that they don't generally tend to have a lot of capital (membership and yard fees are typically set to cover the running costs but not higher and most clubs have no employees, relying entirely on cooperative unpaid work), so whatever they have tends to stick around. I don't know how old this crane is but I'm pretty sure it's been here since at least the 1960's. It's probably cheap to operate and considering what the river bank looks like and what the land around the area is used for I don't think building a facility suited to a travel lift or sublift (or even a forklift) would be popular with the municipality. The downside is that all boats have to be trailerable to the crane, which has lead to a number of exciting home-built cradles-on-wheels that are technically legal to tow on a public road at a blazing 30 km/h but which just spend their years getting pushed a few hundred meters around the yard by a tractor or wheel loader. For boats that don't have wheeled cradles or which are too heavy to lift with this crane, the club rents a big mobile crane, but this costs extra for the owners. The new club has both a launch railway system and an eclectic collection of mobile cranes and forklifts, some of which look positively antique, so that'll be interesting to see in action.
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TheFluff posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1sJG88sRE Bless the SV Mangosteen and all who sail her.
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Most (all?) of the lake cranes in Texas are just a 6-24" steel post with reinforcement on both ends and then an I beam on bearings up top Not quite as fancy as this thing, but mechanically similar. Most of them date back to the late 80s or early 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihnr3qAZbWU In Texas they swap hard hats for cold beers 
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TheFluff posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1sJG88sRE Haha, what time? I think I drove right past you on Kungsängsbron while you were splashing, I remember seeing the crane moving and a boat going on.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Haha, what time? I think I drove right past you on Kungsängsbron while you were splashing, I remember seeing the crane moving and a boat going on. Hahaha, 13:04 according to the video timestamp! You should've waved! There was activity there all day though, they launched 5-6 boats an hour most of the day.
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https://global.yamaha-motor.com/news/2024/0119/torqeedo.html Yamaha apparently bought Torqueedo back in January. Which like, doesn't surprise me in the least, they're both a great product and market leader in their very slim segment I think the J/70 came with a factory option for a Torqueedo installed, somehow
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Any of you try Products by Remora Marine for hull cleaning? https://remoramarine.com/brush-assembly/ Its pretty expensive, but its also waterproof. Basically an underwater electric drill that uses brushes of varying coarseness/bristle stiffness to clean poo poo off the hull. Its expensive, but maybe worth it? Requires you to either hold your breath, or maybe use a snorkel or something.
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wesleywillis posted:Any of you try Products by Remora Marine for hull cleaning? I'm pretty sure SV Delos got one a few years ago and love it. I'm not sure I'm willing to spend that for that device but we'll see if my tune changes after a year or two in the tropics...
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