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Tripping to atlanta for a two ton chain hoist

I seem to be able to get into the weirdest situations…. Maybe I should stay away from ebay? lol

I recently bid on and won a two ton chain hoist and frame on ebay.
Chain Hoist Chain Hoist and Frame
So these were the pictures showing it on ebay 🙂 It looks big but not quite as massive as it turned out to be in person.

So I won this thing for $102.00. I didn’t think I would win it as just the hoist and car on the I beam is worth many hundreds of dollars. Buzz the guy that I communicated with at the company that was selling this told me I could pick it up or if i wanted they would disasemble the frame and ship it. Shipping came to about $350.00.. OUCH!!!! ok … we’re not shipping! I figured gas from conway to atlanta round trip would run about $110.00 in my GMC astro van (gas actually ended up around $130.00) and that I could just strap the frame work to the racks on the roof. Then I remembered a past adventure were we strapped a 8ftx8ft 400 lb hot tub on the top of my van and drove back from charlotte with it (maybe I’ll tell that story another day :)….anyway maybe on the roof isn’t such a good idea….. So I borrow my friend Steve’s trailer that he hauls a golf cart around with. It is exactly 8 ft long inside the bed (this is important 🙂 remember it.)

LBSA Race Nov 15

Raced on sea puppy. Anago hit and bent port push pit in first race… 🙂 we won though..
second race we ran spinnaker and did very well also… however since we hadn’t declared we were going to run spinnaker in the race there was an issue with our time… forget what the result was but was very happy with how well we sailed.