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Hi fellow Whalers. Can someone help me? I need to get my boat (17' Montauk) off my trailer so I can replace some parts on the trailer and need to keep the boat in the garage because of HOA regulations. What's the best way to get my Montauk off the trailer in a limited space situation? (Without purchasing expensive boat stands). Thanks.

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Have you thought of purchasing all your parts and then just launch your boat and do your repairs while the boat is in the water? Or you can put old tires under your hull as you put your boat on the garage floor. When you crank your boat back on the trailer, do it with the vehicle disconnected from the trailer. As you crank the trailer go right under the boat where it lays. be careful, at some point the trailer tongue will rise up. I've done it both ways. Launching it is easier.

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Hang it from a big ole tree!
Or two cherry pickers...(engine hoists)
TP

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Hanging it from a tree will get it off the trailer but will also make the HOA unhappy.

I would consider making a simple A-frame from 2x4 lumber and use a comealong to lift the boat off the trailer using the recommended lifting points on the hull. I would lift the boat only enough to push the trailer forward then lower the boats keel to some cribbing or a couple of robust saw horses to take some or most of the weight off the A-frame.

I believe the owners manual has a diagram showing how to rig the lines for lifting the boat. Most use the two eyes on the transom and the forward eye often found in the anchor locker or just above the locker. If you don't have the diagram a search here or on Internet should get it for you.

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At age 64, no fooling around under a 1000 pound boat.
Here me out:
Safety is no joke....that's why we own Whalers.
I bought the Brownell Boat Lifting System. http://boatstands.com/product/manual-...ng-system/
Watch the video on this site. Fantastic!
I'll use this every year I bottom paint my Montauk.
You could buy it, then sell it, rent it, lend it or keep it.
I'm keeping mine. If you lived in Massachusetts, I'd lend it to you.........

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cepecodder that is a nice system from Brownell.
Now I wish I would hve kept my short stands from the big sailboat as I could have rigged up a front member easily.
Thanks for the link.

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Your storage issue seems to be an ongoing problem if you will have to take the boat off the trailer in order to store it in your garage. I may be off base but I would agree with the other member to launch the boat, pay a marina to jack stand the boat for the time needed or maybe take a month of rack in and out service if it is available in your area. Then I would then add a swing away tongue option to your existing trailer. I know there are companies out there offering the kits and also installation if it is beyond your scope. That way you will not encounter another storage issue for either the boat or the trailer.

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It is not difficult to remove a Montauk 17 hull from a trailer located inside a garage. I have done this many times, specifically to repair the trailer while the boat is stored inside the garage. I start with lowering the front of the trailer all the way to the ground. Then I put support blocks under the rear bottom part of the hull, outside planing strakes. Be sure your outboard is tilted up. Then I raise the trailer front using the dolly and secure the interior lifting eyelet inside the anchor locker to one end of a comealong rachet (@1 ton load capacity) and the other end attached to a ceiling support eyebolt (the eyelet has a load capacity of @1100lbs). I establish load on the rachet sufficient to raise the hull enough to pull the trailer out. When the trailer is removed, I place a single block under the center keel forward then lower the rachet to remove load. The hull then sits on the three blocks directly on the garage floor with the comealong rachet still attached to bow interior lifting eyelet and ceiling eyelet with no load until such time that I need to put the boat back on the trailer.

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Appreciate all the suggestions, but none really work for me, short of buying the Brownell Support System. I can't hang my bow from a ceding hook because I have a garage door that prevents installing a eye bolt in the ceiling.

I guess there's no way getting around this I expensively in a cramped garage. Here's what I' up against:

http://s1308.photobucket.com/user/rlr...=1&o=0

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Why can't you launch your boat and do the repairs?

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This is very simple, follow the advice Weatherly gave you but support the front of the boat from under instead of above. As long as you have solid support of both sides of the back you only need a single support up front. Here's a video of someone doing a much larger boat, but you can Google "remove boat from trailer" for other ways >>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uP2...2uP2g2VHec