Boatyard Safety

[reel world sportfishing]

Franky,
Good wake up call. It always seems to take someone elses misfourtune to teach others a lesson in life. Personally I can tell you dont ever take more steps backward than what you took forward on the roof of a two story building!
Get my drift, hurt like hell for many years! LOL Our prayers are with your friend.

[frankypettolina]

Very interesting coincidence...

Got an email today from Boat US looking for any surveyor interested in handling a damage claim to a vessel in Trinidad. Extensive structural damage....sling broke and boat fell. Thankfully no one was injured.

[BTH284]

Good...no,no great post here Franky. I can tell you I have spent many an hour underneath a slinged boat hanging from a lift or even worse yet slinged on the forks of a Fork Truck. DANGEROUS TERRITORY PEOPLE!!! I always would run at least one spotter while lifting and slinging boats.
Another safety precaution that can buy you that everlasting minute to get out from under a boat is to tie the slings together to keep them from slipping apart as well as a line to the bow eye to control of unwanted swinging. Jack stands should always be used even when putting a boat on a work rack and these stands should be tied together as well. I have spent to many hours slinging boats to dollies for shows and racks for work and seen many a near miss.

Thanks for bringin this out in the open Franky and I wish and pray for the recovery of your bud.

[jawz12]

i see guys doing this all the time... man,your buddy needs to play the lottery-one lucky guy!!!
another thing i see constantly is the improper position of blocking....using cinder blocks with the openings on the sides is incorrect-no strength,the openings need to be up,not on the sides...i've seen these blocks break from just putting them down....
on a different site,i actually seen someone's grady white sitting on 55gallon drums-i swear to god,i seen the picture.....don't let common sense get in your way...