Bridle Hoisting a Hunter 216?

[Lightnsail]

Ok, so thinking about a 216 and we use hoists at my yacht club to launch. I’d use a bridle attached to chainplates and rear cleats with backing plates. Wondering if anyone’s been doing this and for how long. I’m a little concerned that the composite material might get stress cracks from doing so. Thoughts?

 

[fred1diver]

Usually we use 2 slings under the boat to support the boat at our club

 

[Lightnsail]

Thanks. Not set up that way at my club, with the focus on speed, as we race a lot and many of us dry stored.

 

[Rick Webb]

Significant backing plates on the stern cleats and a spreader bar across the "V" that lifts the boat. Lifting wires that are not vertical multiply the force on the attachment point. A spreader bar keeps the boat from getting squeezed.

Are both the bridles going to a single point on the hoist or is there a bar longitudinally?

 

[Lightnsail]

To a single point.

 

[Rick Webb]

To a single point.

A lifting bar may make sense for y'alls operation.
I'll post a picture of the one I had made. It is for lifting our coach boats and are much heavier than your boat but gives you an idea.

A spreader bar does not have to be anything more complicated than a 4X4 with a couple of eye bolts at the same distance apart as your cleats or chainplates.

 

[Lightnsail]

Ok, so a spreader bar makes sense to spread the load between the chainplates. Do you do anything from the front to rear? Pics of your setup would be helpful, thanks!

 

[Rick Webb]

 

[Lightnsail]

So that runs bow to stern with two more going across the boat to attach where the shrouds meet the deck and the other attached to the two stern cleats?