Autumn '11: Snow is on its way, and Nutmeg is in the way (for snowblowing.) First I had a local welder come to assemble the steel cradle. Second, I hired a local builder who recently acquired a 20-ton lift capacity boom-truck. He had one spreader bar that was longer than my boat, and no extra spreaders to hold the cables away from the hull. I planned on moving the boat from the wooden supports directly to the steel cradle already assembled on the boat-shed's pad. But to work around the hoist issues, we brought the cradle to the boat. Then lifted the stern with the truck and wrestled the cradle under her.
The cradle then served as a spreader to prevent the cables from squeezing the hull.
As it turns out Nutmeg has some heft and we couldn't have the weight more than 10 feet or so from the truck's bed. So a forty foot move took four lifts.
Caution and intense attention made for a safe move.
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