Bunk boards and bottom paint

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Bladeswell

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May 21, 2013
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Catalina 25 Long Beach
Hello Again,

I'm going to need to bottom paint before she goes back into the water. My question is, how do I safely Lift her off of her trailer bunk boards in order to sand and paint those areas normally covered by the boards. Thanks again.

Bladeswell
 
Hobopacket

Hobopacket

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Jul 15, 2015
59
Catalina 22 Raleigh NC
could you rig up something to jack the boat up then evenly distribute the weight the bunk boards would carry somewhere close?
I have to scrape barnicles off my old boat and I made new supports beside the bunks that were a little higher so I could get in there.
 
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watercolors II

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Dec 23, 2008
771
Catalina 22 Central Penna.
painting while on trailer

A friend has a home made boat lift that I have use for 25 years to do my bottom but, having broke my neck last fall I wanted to go very slow, over a period of a week and not have to bend my neck to see the bottom so, having washed the bottom in my driveway by laying on a dolly I thought that I would try painting this time.

See attached PDF of how I have recommended and actually doing it.
 

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Solace of Freedom

Solace of Freedom

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Aug 12, 2010
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Catalina C22 Lake Erie
I had written on this when I had jacked up my C 22 in the past. The responses were all like "yeah, yeah, we all have our way of lifting the boat..." For those people, this is not for you. I used a bottle jack and a 4x4 towards the bow. I had recently replaced the trailer bunks and kept the old ones. I laid those inside the trailer ones w/ a 4x4 cross beam. then jacked that up w/ a hefty car jack. It was surprisingly stable. I teetered it back and forth to switch sides. Let the keel hang and it'll take some weight off. Not a lot of clearance, but enough to sand and paint.
 
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