ACE Haulout

The week before haulout, the weather changed abruptly.  It has been -8C all week and we got 6-8" of snow.  I had gone during the week and put a ceramic heater below to deep the engine block from freezing.

I got to the club a little after 8am and there was 2" of ice in the harbour!

They had to use the club steel work barge as an icebreaker.

Grafitte (left), ACE, and Tanker Jones (right)

I spent the morning helping out with a work crew taking all the docks out:

Retrieving floatation barrels

Another dock section being lifted in background

I managed to get the motor started and ran it for about half an hour.

Carson came by and we marked the lift points, and prepped the cradle.

Unfortunately, I had to leave to play in a charity hockey game for work.

Carson and Mike looked after it.

Here a short YouTube video of the lift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kli9p73pmNw&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share

Just look at the ice on the fenders!

Turn out our new to us cradle would not work.  It was designed for a Beneteau First 36.7, but the pads were 12" below the hull with the keel in the cradle.  The MUMM has more keel, while the 36.7 has more hull in the water.  While the boat hung in the slings, the industrious WYC crews got an oxy-acetylene torch and cut out the steel in the cradle so that the keel sat on the ground a full 10" lower and we were able to bring the pads up.

Any other club on the lake would have just put us back in the water; thanks WYC!