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Thanks - I will probably just use my stripped screw extractor bits and replace the screws with something more to my liking. It really is ridiculous that they would make the batteries hard to replace - they use off the shelf flat batteries with standard connectors.

Another Sena "never again". I have the SPH10s - which worked great for several years. The intercom pairing is really not that bad once you get used to it, the battery life out-of-the-box lasted around 10 hours. The noise cancelling microphones also work fairly well, you rarely hear...

There is a discussion thread here about this very topic: http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/travel-lift-hydraulic-trailer-15309.html I did not consider the stress/deformation of the hull due to slings - now I have to check for damage I might not have noticed. I did not hear anything...

There are youtube vids of these things. Basically they act like big bunk trailers, they dont touch the keel. Much like the big forklifts for boats, they adjust their width to stay clear of running gear. They also adjust their height, they can haul sailboats with no problem.

I think my next haul out will be at a yard that uses hydraulic trailers instead of slings. When I had my boat surveyed at Van Isle (Sydney BC) they had an awesome trailer that could haul out just about any thing under 70'.

Yes, the fwd sling is also marked further fwd on my boat, the lift operators brought it back to reduce load on the back sling. They said there was no weight on the fwd sling as marked. Even moved back there is a 10k lb difference between the slings.

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The locations of the sling are just fwd of the shoe, really close. It this case, the fwd sling pretty much lines up with the middle of the fwd window and the aft sling lines up with the middle of the (fwd)aft window.

I am pretty sure that operators are thinking full keel at first. I am going to print these pictures and put them in the log book

This is the first time I have done a haul out on this boat. Is this how other owners end up being hauled out ? It was way off of the sling locations marked on the boat. It appears you either have to hire a diver to thread the sling between the hull and sand shoe, put the sling in the marked...