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I want to change the trailer my 22 Outrage is sitting on. Rather than take both trailers 50 miles to do this in water I plan to lift the boat with a fork lift and cables hooked to lifting eyes. Then drive the trailer out from under the boat and back the other trailer in place. Forklift is plenty strong enough, and lifting eyes look fine. Any reason not to proceed as described? Thanks.
The lack of a spreader bar may be a problem. When the rigging is less than, say, 30 degrees from vertical, the stress on the rigging parts goes way up. One of the parts of the rigging would be the lifting eyes and how they are attached to the boat.
I ended up using two tow straps under the hull, then attached another strap as a 'spreader bar substitute'. Placement of straps to keep lift level was only adjustment required. Straps were tight on gunwales, but not overstressed. All went well.
I helped an owner do this without machinery for his Outrage 22.
We ran a hefty rope from the back of the original trailer to a tree to act as a deadman. We removed the winch post. We dropped the tongue to the ground.
We hooked up the new trailer and positioned it right in front of the bow and used the new trailer's winch to pull the boat right across and onto the new trailer. It worked great but suggest you have some freinds to share the winching. By the end both of us has really sore shoulders.
Edited by Phil T on 04/25/10 - 1:38 PM
1992 Outrage 17 I
2019 E-TEC 90, Viper 17 2+
2018 Load Rite Elite 18280096VT
I would say for a short time, it would be ok. I would not lift a 22' without davits or as listed above, a speader bar.
