Can't Anybody Drive a Travel Lift Anymore

Hi,

I wouldn't be so quick to blame the driver as such.

If what he drove over was not capable of supporting the weight it should have had something that made it visible to operators as a big truck could also break that surface.

The warnings could be bars around it making it hard to drive over and or fluorescent paint making it hard to miss visually.

Luckily from what shown, no one and nothing was seriously injured.

I agree with K1W1. Doesn't look like the boat was dropped at all. It's still in the slings.

And that grid may have been driven over many times before without a problem.

The photos only prove two things definitively.
The wheels are too small.
That Travel Lift was not designed to navigate through the streets of Montreal.
(Montreal has much larger potholes than the one shown eating the Travel Lift wheel)

Everything else is conjecture.

Hi,

Interesting way of looking at it, also interesting to see what looks like a small French Car in the second photo, I take it Portland Marina is in either Oregon or Maine both firmly in the contiguous 48 and home to the large car brigade

Lionel,

Its not a Travel-Lift, which I CAN drive on the remote, but a Wise made machine. The Dodge Dart of hauling.

"Dodge Dart" ? Careful, you're dating yourself.

Hey, looking at the photos again, all the boats are European and so is the car, Portland Uk?

Hi,

Fish are you wearing your glasses today? Maybe they need a clean- the location was revealed in Post No 7 above. If you had read it before posting you would know the answer to your question.

If you have a look at the Marina Website they are actually advertising for a Berthing Manager with Travel Lift driving as a part of the job description.

DOH! I've just noticed. My bad.

I once had a tour of TravelLift in Sturgeon Bay around 1995. They had a big new lift, don't know tonnage but BIG, unassembled in the parking lot. It had been parked over railroad tracks and the crossmember was hit by a train.

In Asia.

They had to ship it back to WI for repair.

$$$$$$$$$$

It's a Linssen, Dutch-built (where are ya, Brunick?) and steel..which is likely why the squash factor is nil.
We were dealers briefly for them down here in S. Fla but they proved to be too expensive and their range was embarassingly small.

Loren - we have a disagreement (our first?) I have sold several Linssens (4 or 5?) and I think you were using too broad of a brush. Ok, tankage isn't generous but they weren't made to cross oceans in spite of being full displacement steel yachts with Category B rating. DeVries Lentsch designed, they are quite capable cruisers. They became expensive because of the exchange rate but still offer a lot for the money. If I were cruising East Coast, West Coast, Bahamas, Great Loop, PNW, Caribbean, Med...I'd take a Linssen over a lot of other manufacturers with more fuel capacity and higher consumption rates.

Judy

Back up the lift, lower the boat. What could possibly go wrong? Do Travel Lift operators need a driver's license?

(obviously the dock on the starboard side caved under 'pier pressure')

Dec 4, 2007

More photos, different angles.

That boat was Northerned before Northern.

What is that starboard side rail made of - wood?