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Posted: April 07 2009,9:40 am |
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Quote (Carrera Elite @ April 07 2009,8:42 am) | Quote (WATERDOG @ April 07 2009,8:00 am) | Big boat hoist Workers prepare for Desert Storm
By Jayne Hanson Monday, April 6, 2009 9:35 PM MST
A local fiberglass restoration business is set to tackle its heaviest hull ever after calling upon two cranes to hoist a 50-foot boat from its trailer Monday. Workers are prepping the boat for the upcoming Desert Storm boating event scheduled April 23-25.
Fiberglass Reformations, owned and operated by Jill and Steve Power, of Lake Havasu City, employed two 70-ton cranes from local Sky High Crane and Rigging to lift a 2000 Magnum 50 from its trailer onto stabilizers and wood blocks.
Approximately a dozen workers of Sky High and Fiberglass Reformations scrambled to situate the boat while at least a dozen more watched in awe at the huge boat hanging and slightly swinging from the cranes’ rigging.
“We have flipped some boats over with a crane, but this is the first time we have used two cranes to remove a boat from a trailer,†Jill Power said. The Magnum 50 is 55-feet long with the swim step attached, according to Power.
In the business’s 11 years, Fiberglass Reformations has previously worked on a houseboat before in regard to size but the Magnum 50 was by far the heaviest boat they have had to maneuver.
“What was unusual about it was the weight of it,†said Ron Schuler, dispatcher for Sky High Crane and Rigging. Schuler said in comparison to the offshore boats, Sky High’s cranes lift into the lake for the annual Desert Storm water events each year, the weight of the Magnum is significantly more, weighing in at approximately 54,000 pounds.
“They say that boat will do 75 mph in 12 foot swells in the ocean. Some of those offshore boats could never do that. There are two V-12 Caterpillar motors in it (Magnum 50). That is 2,500 horsepower or something like that, something unbelievable like that,†Schuler said. |
DAMN!! Thing Is Huge!! Â Â It Probably Makes A Wake One Could Surf Behind!! |
5 foot draft. A thousand pounds per foot is just nuts.
"Damn you sure know how to fock things up."-GFR
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