Lifting the boats

Owning hardboats means plenty of work. Each November the boats are lifted onto the harbourside for the winter, and remain there until April. The lift is always scary - as the strain comes onto the strops there are plenty of gritted teeth.

April 2003

Neptune - ready to go for the season - note the glorious weather.
Thanks to Anna Jones for the 2003 photos.

Any anxiety is well founded - fast reactions by one of our members (who very quickly learned to drive a crane)
averted a bad accident a few years ago.

Lifting and then clearing out the boats can take up much of a day. We always have a good response from members on lift days and usually hold a laying up party in the evening.