Originally Posted by IslandMarineGroup (Post 254905)

What I did might work of you. I went upstairs and laid two 4x4's perpendicular to the beams. I drilled a ½" hole through the 4x4 and the ceiling of the workshop. From the bottom, I pushed and eye bolt through the ceiling and 4x4, put big washers and a nut on the threads. From the eye, I hung chain hoists. This gave me two lifting points. I intend to build a cradle out of 2" x 12" x 16' lumber and 4x4's and carriage bolts. I flirted with the idea of a steel frame and castors so I can move it around because my '89 20 CC will take up a lot of the available work space. On the other hand, it the boat being in the shop is a pain, I might get it done faster. Last project the customer had show dollies, which worked great!

http://www.hostarmarine.com/dollies/...y-dollies.html

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Originally Posted by otterhound (Post 254919)

When I take a boat off the trailer I put the stands on the outside corners of the transom. I use regular boat stands as I have a lot of them. It looks like the pads on the top on your jack stands need to be bigger and definitely tie them together. It would really suck if the boat wound up sitting on the garage floor! Just take it slow and easy and have somebody watching the jack stands at all times. Good luck.
Rod