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A Low-Maintenance, Safe Alternative to Boat Lifts
A Low-Maintenance, Safe Alternative to Boat Lifts
BoatLiftAlternative.com presents a common-sense alternative to dangerous and high-maintenance boat lifts.
Deerfield Beach,
FL,
United States of America
(sardnews.org)
20/12/2012
BoatLiftAlternative.com has recently featured an article on Gather.com that explores the drawbacks of boat lifts and presents a common-sense alternative to these dangerous and high-maintenance devices.
As every boat owner knows, it's hard to keep bottom growth off your boat's hull. And yet, it's vitally necessary to do so, since a boat hull that is encrusted with barnacles faces more resistance in water, causes the boat to go slower, and makes fuel usage go up.
Any boat - or, indeed, object - immersed in the sea will accumulate marine organisms and slime pretty quickly, so one of the more common solutions is to lift the boat out of the water. This is done either by pulling the boat onto a trailer, or raising it on a special boat lift.
While a boat lift accomplishes its task - the hull of the boat is not in contact with sea water while it's on the lift - there is a number of serious drawbacks to the devices. They are expensive. They require maintenance. In case of severe winds, the high center of mass may cause the structure to tip over and drop the boat. There are many components under a great deal of mechanical strain, and breakage or failure can seriously injure or even cause death. Finally, boat lift installation requires changes and modifications to a pier, making it both relatively difficult to perform and frequently bothersome to obtain permits for it.
This is why Barnacle Barrier is a boat lift alternative whose time has come. It's a safe floating dry dock system that, in effect, shrink wraps the bottom of your boat in a flexible barrier, after which the water is pumped out from the barrier and the boat is left floating for stability, yet dry for damage prevention.
The device is simple to install and use, requiring minimal maintenance and human involvement. It uses a floating, sealed, non-inflatable frame for buoyancy; on one end, it has an air gate that can be lifted to let the boat through, then raised again to seal the boat off from the sea. There is a large flexible barrier attached to the frame, and a land-based automatic electric pump that evacuates the barrier.
There are very few moving parts, no elements under great strain or stress, no need to raise the boat out of water, no tall towering parts that can be considered an eyesore, no modifications or alterations on land, and therefore, no permitting requirements in the vast majority of locations.
To find out more about this safe alternative to a boat lift, come to our site now!
Contact:
BoatLiftAlternative
265 South Federal Highway, Unit 179
Deerfield Beach
Florida, 33441
Phone: 888.517.3334
Email: sales@boatliftalternative.com
http://www.boatliftalternative.com/
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About BoatLiftAlternative
There are very few moving parts, no elements under great strain or stress, no need to raise the boat out of water, no tall towering parts that can be considered an eyesore, no modifications or alterations on land, and therefore, no permitting requirements in the vast majority of locations. To find out more about this safe alternative to a boat lift, come to our site now!
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