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Location: Tomahawk, WI | I've got a 15' aluminum boat and it doesn't weigh more than 800 pounds. I'm not too crazy about trailering it all of the time as we live on the lake and have a perfectly good dock to leave it at, but I'm also worried about leaving it in the water year round. I'm definitely going to build a "house" for it, more like a roof with no walls, to keep all of the debri from the trees out of it. But that still leaves it sitting in the water.
So my question is, have any of you built a homemade boat lift before? |
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| I haven't but I admire my neighbor's set-up on his beach. He used lanscape timbers, two trailer bunks (with rollers) and a small hand crank trailer winch. The set-up is 1/4 in the water and 3/4 on shore. He simply uses the winch to move the boat far enough up on shore so he can pull the boat plug at the transom to allow rain water to drain out. To go out, he just unhooks the winch and pushes the boat down the roller bunks. It would be easy to build some sort of roof.
BTW we have Zebra Mussels in our lake so all motors must totally lifted out of the water one way or another. |
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Location: Rhinelander | Mounting a trailer frame to shore and building an encloser around it is pretty common.....most call it a boat house. Pretty common here in WI.....don't know how permits are issued?
Finding an old trailer, or fabricating a steel frame will roller bunks and a winch shouldn't be hard.....if your shoreline allows this may be your most economical way.
Good luck.
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| A good used lift will only be 800 to 1000. See them for sale all over. At the Gorys market bye our cabin there is an add for one right now. Chippea falls wi. (bye lake Wissota) |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | Thanks guys! I don't really want to bring it on shore because our shore is brushy and kind of steep and still looks natural and it's going to stay that way as long as we own it. So a lift is the only way to go. I'll check out the classifieds. |
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Homemade boat lift?