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Big Block Power wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:22 am

cmattj wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:19 pm

Big Block Power wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:14 pm He trailers now Matt.

Yeah I know his Barrett Jackson boat trailer...I thought he was going marina slip with a hoist?

Yes the Barrett Jackson trailer. Go back to your lemonade.

Southerncomfort wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:32 am Well I really want to provide nothing useful to this conversation for some reason. Probably because the quote I got from hydrohoist pissed me off so much.

So I tried to get a 12k hydrohoist with no extras; hydrohoist of TN wanted ~$22k. I nearly cried at that quote. Nothing near what I was expecting.

To rub salt in the wound i was talking to someone from kentucky who got the same lift a year earlier for ~$14.5k.. . That is more in range with what I was expecting. Tried to buy his lift and truck it down to TN but he hadn't sold the boat yet. Of course I think I saw where he sold it for less than $10k later on an in the year. Really wish I could have waited and got it at that price.

Wound up with a used polylift for $10k. Definitely not as nice as the hydrohoist and had some issues with it being to big for the slip. Sidenote: I setup the lift so I can back in the boat( which is great for loading crap onto the boat) but apparently docks have a bar running 8 to 10 under the front entrance of the slip. Normally no one knows or cares about this except the polylift was so long and deep that it hits the bar and prevents it from going all the way down in the water. Only a few inches...well apparently those few inches really matter(that's what she said... ) as I backed the boat last summer at night... hit a prop on the lift. Cost me $700 for the prop as I would not wait the two weeks for the prop to be repaired.......wish I would have got the Hydrohoist...

Okay need to wrap up my soapbox... Really chaps my ass how Hydrohoist treats people when they have an exclusive agreement with the all marinas on the lake for new lifts. Aren't kickbacks a grand thing

Ytmsn wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:53 am I use an AirLift hoist. I got an 8,000 lb for $6,500 total, installed. And they had to come back a second day at no charge to make adjustments since I had it built with longer lift arms to back in. They miscalculated where it would sit when lifted, so they had to move it a tad. Basically they installed it backwards to what they usually do. They said they very seldom have a customer request to back in.

IMHO, stern in is the bomb!

Photo_G wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 8:32 am

Ytmsn wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2019 8:53 am I use an AirLift hoist. I got an 8,000 lb for $6,500 total, installed. And they had to come back a second day at no charge to make adjustments since I had it built with longer lift arms to back in. They miscalculated where it would sit when lifted, so they had to move it a tad. Basically they installed it backwards to what they usually do. They said they very seldom have a customer request to back in.

IMHO, stern in is the bomb!

I may have to ask our lift guy whether ours can be adjusted to allow stern in. Man, that would make loading and boarding sooo easy!

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Big Block Power wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:06 am It's odd how his the clean water looks like that. Table rock is kind of the same way. It's so cool.

Photo_G wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:36 am

Big Block Power wrote: Sun Apr 14, 2019 9:06 am It's odd how his the clean water looks like that. Table rock is kind of the same way. It's so cool.

I've been told that it's because Lake Travis, being part of the Lower Colorado River, is always moving and circulating. I don't know if that's actually the case, but it's generally pretty clear in the summer and we have little to no problems with insects and spiders. It's been really refreshing, since we came from a lake that was nearly impossible to be on after dusk (bugs), and required 15-20 minutes of prep before every outing (spiders and bird droppings).

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thunder550 wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:09 am Thanks for the great info everyone! I can stomach $6500 for a new lift. Much more than that and it gets out of my budget. Hopefully I can find a used one, I like the $2500-3000 price even better. It's gotta be close to AZ though, I'd imagine shipping from halfway across the country would quickly eat up a lot of the savings.

Yt....do you have the option to pull nose in if you want? I'd love to back in for the reasons you listed, but wondering if a big storm or something came up quick if nose in would work temporarily. I'm assuming if you don't actually lift the boat it doesn't matter if you go in forward or backwards?

Matt, I'll be sure to get pics. There's a long wait list but I'm hoping it goes quick like the lady said it would. A lot of the docks were damaged in a storm last year, so they have displaced people waiting for the covered slips to be repaired, then new people in line in front of me. But the lady I talked to seemed to think a lot of them will have gotten tired of waiting and moved on by the time they get to the front of the line. The dock repair is supposed to be done in May, then they will start working through the wait list.

Out of curiosity, what are you guys paying monthly or annually for covered slips? I think I remember a lot of them were cheap compared to here....supply and demand and all that. I'm looking at $460/month for a 30' covered slip, another $30/month for power and $35/month for trailer storage, so about $525/month all in.