Placement of hoist

[Jacothebrave]

Help the not so smart please

With a pontoon boat Aluminium
Pontoons 660 mm
Center of pontoon to center of pontoon 2.1 meter
To build a hoist lift or whatever you call it
Vertical Pole 2 meters high
Horizontal pole 500 mm over edge pontoon
1st case vertical pole in center of boat horizontal pole 1.88 meters
2nd case vertical pole 400 mm inside center of pontoon horizontal pole 1.23 meters
Which is the better one to lift something out of water or are it basicly the same


All assistance will be apreciated

Regards
Jaco(the not so smart LOL)

[Pblais]

You need to provide more details of what you want to lift. In the middle distributes the load between both pontoons better but the longer horizontal arm needs to be stronger. Depending on what you are lifting it not matter at all where you put it. How you attach the lift and brace it may also be important. You don't want the lift to collapse.

[Jacothebrave]

Planing to lift lines and baskets but wieght round about 100 to 150 kg max 200kg
The boats weight will be around 500kg

[Pblais]

Any hoist that needs to handle 200 kg needs to be engineered properly and part of that would also include attachment as well as appropriate bracing. Any hoist that large is going to also need back plate(s) at the base to handle that sized load. You would normally take a hoist rated to it's capacity then multiply that by a factor to come up with a safe working load.

Without some additional details I don't see how you could make this work properly. Speculating on a hoist that large would be dangerous.