Marinette Boat Forum

I have a heavy built wood "A" frame on casters that the po used on my 32 ft express. You are welcome to use it if it will fit in the salon. It's 44" wide 68" tall & 83" long.
Wayne

You can check my thread below, "sunken 32". I just pulled my engines last month. We hauled the boat, temporarily blocked it, and used a boom truck to lift them out. The shipyards pricing was very reasonable. If you were to do this at my shipyard I would tell you to expect $350. $200 for the short haul and $150/hr for the boom truck. I have no idea about prices in your area. My experience involved me doing all prep work, shipyard only had to pick the boat up and operate the boom truck. As far as using an A frame or the such, this might get the engines out of the bildge, but how will you remove them from the vessel. Keep in mind these are over 1,000 lbs fully dressed, if my reading is correct. That boom truck had to do some pulling to get em up!! Do yourself a huge favor and remove alllllll the fluids before you start! One last tip, i used a 1000lb ratchet strap to level the engines once they were off the stringers.

Several years ago a friend pulled the engines in his houseboat, he basically disassembled the engines down to the blocks to eliminate weight. Then he and several good ol' boys man handled the blocks out. Back breaking but cheap. Went back in the same way, 350's.

Sadly, I don't believe this is possible on our boats.

A sky track with a 1/2 ton hoist on the end of the fork works beautifully. As long as your doors open wide enough. Otherwise I use a small steel, collapsible A frame that I can tear down into 5 easy to handle pieces.

I used an engine hoist inside the cabin. Then set the motor on a furniture dolly and rolled the motor to the outside cockpit. From there I used a forklift and a jib room on the forks to lift it up and out of the boat. The motors are finished now but I'm not sure if I'll reinstall them that way. Here are some photos. Good luck.

https://1978marinette32.wordpress.com/2 ... e-removal/

Carl,

Look at these items to maybe get some ideas. I am going build out one of these for my boat motor installs. My idea was to use shelf components even if it cost a few more dollars, but not be to expensive to build.

http://www.harborfreight.com/1000-lb-ca ... 96524.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/2-ton-capa ... 60659.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/1-ton-manu ... 69338.html

I will then need to put a base together.

This item below may need to be modified a little if I use it. I would use the pieces to make the ends.
http://www.harborfreight.com/12-ton-h-f ... 60604.html

I am also considering the 1st three items then build an A-frame out of angle iron on each end. I would ad a short piece of angle at 45 degrees on each A-frame to create proper lateral support.

The whole system would be bolt together (grade 8 bolts bought at Tractor Supply) so it could be assembled on the boat and also stored when not in use.

OR - I am also looking at maybe one of these, but the price point is high and I think fitting it on the boat could be an issue.
http://www.harborfreight.com/1-ton-capa ... 69513.html

Again - just ideas to think about at this point.

Mike