Lifting my engine out with the boom

[R Hutcheson]

You probably can just make sure your topping lift is supporting your boom at the same point you are using to lift the engine. Otherwise you may collapse your boom by having it supported only on the ends and loaded in the middle.

[robertmfranklin]

I removed the Atomic 4 from my Pearson 30 about 15 years ago on the hard. Alone! Like someone else said, I didn't want a lot of hands in the way. Getting it up to the cockpit was reasonably easy using the boom and a cumalong.

I positioned onto planks across the seats I used the boom to lift the engine onto a slide I built using a ladder and plywood. Then all that was required was a line to retard the engine's movement to the ground assisted by gravity. I think a couple people walking by helped me move it into the back of my Volvo wagon. Rebuilt and returned the same way, except winched up the slide using the genoa winch.

No problems, no injuries. But the A-4 with components removed is just round 200#. Not that much weight.

My P36-1 has a Yanmar 3GM30F dry weight 130kg/275lb. Big difference.

What is "dry weight".

Bob Franklin

[Reefmagnet]

Dry weight is the weight of the engine without it's fluids as shipped from the factory (oil and coolant).

[Sailorman Ed]

Just took out both engines yesterday afternoon. I added a 4 ft section of smaller mast slid inside the end of the boom, attached my main halyard to the lifting point and secured a 1/4ton chain hoist to the same. You can see the connection points in the attached photos. STB engine came right out ( 1 hour into the trailer), port engine would not separate from the SD20 saildrive so we took it out as an assembly - much more work to fit it out the hatch ( 3 hours into the trailer). I preloaded the main halyard with 4 turns on the winch and locked the line.