> Hi Jack, It's nice to hear the boat survived so well, I also store my boat
> in a similar fashion and am worried to think I my have the same trouble.
> What type of fitting actually Broke? I'm using two Micro blocks mounted on
> the ceiling and two fixed bail snatch blocks, one on each end of the boat.
> I'm using 1/4" double braid nylon line to haul it up & down and
> have two loops of nylon webbing wrapped around the boat with an S hook to
> connect it to the snatch block.

Not entirely sure I got the picture of how you rig your boat, Kent, but it sounds similar to my system. I have two pairs of eyebolts and small blocks bolted through the ceiling joists, each pair roughly above the fore and aft bulkhead position; both of the 1/4" nylon lines are tied off at the eyebolts, run down through two blocks which are attached to "D" rings, then back up to the ceiling and through the fixed blocks, and then over and down to clam cleats and a backup standard deck cleat. Two two inch webbing straps run through the "D" rings, and form loops which are run onto the boat as close to the bulkheads as ceiling joist spacing allows. The critical bit that went wrong was one of two two inch triglide buckles that I used to construct each loop; one triglide broke, one piece staying on the webbing, the other found later twenty feet away; when the first one went, the other slipped and the boat was suddenly attracted by gravity to the garage floor. I have since gone down the the local shoemaker and had him bartack the loops on his monster sewing machine. No more triglides!

What was most interesting --- especially in retrospect --- was how solid that hull was! I'm going to try to pressurize it and check for air leaks indicating cracks this weekend (no hatches or skeg and just one four inch deckplate, so it should be relatively easy to check with a tire pump fitting, a sacrificed deckplate hatch, and some soapy water.

Jack