[fatlazyless]

The rocky embankment in front of my little cottage is about six feet high, and I have been using the same five boards for like 20-years now; three 2"x10"x10', and two 2"x4"x10' that get screwed together to build a ramp that lines up with the four legs of my ten foot wide boat lift. The lift as well as the five piece dock sections all get hauled up the rocky embankment to the level lawn, where it stays till ice-out.

I have no clue how much Center Harbor Dock and Pier would charge to be doing this? I have been in there to buy dock repair items, or aluminum dock pipe and know it's not a bargain basement type of a business. It ain't no thrift store.

Pulling the lift up and out is powered by a Maasdam pow'r pull, about $45, sold at Lakeport Hdwe in Laconia, a quality come-along ratchet device, attached to a convenient tree. Not all power pulls or come-alongs are all that easy to use so it helps to get a good one.

Moving it into the water in April is done with an eight foot 2"x3", used as a lever, to move it down the ramp...... to pry, lift, and move forward......about 4" at a time.........plus moving it down slope helps a lot.

As the saying goes .....slow & steady wins this race.

Boat lift supposedly weighs about 450-lbs.