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[Scott Galloway]

Bud,

Check the search function on this site for information on the Garhauer Lifting Davit. Although the well in the Ariel has some interesting downsides, a Garhauer Lifting Davit can solve the installation and removal problems. I store my OB on it's side in the lazarette. I lift it into place in the well every time I sail. After sailing, I lift it back out of the well, flush the motor with fresh water, and lay it back down in the lazarette again.

The 6:1 ratio Garhauer Lifting Davit makes this all possible without me having to lift the 60 lb Nissan 6 hp motor. I only have to exert 10 lb of pressure on the lines. I can also swing the motor onto a cart, or into a dinghy using the davit. The Ariel Association manual has a section on where to buy and how to install this device. It was first installed on on Gene Robert's Ariel by the Late Myron Spaulding . I installed my own with the help of the fine article that Gene wrote in the Ariel Assoc. Manual, and I am glad that I did.

You can also see this device on my Ariel web page article on the Garhauer Lifting Davit at: http://www.solopublications.com/sailarip.htm#motor where it is shown with my original motor, a four stroke Honda 7.5 weighting more like 80 lbs.

I previously owned a sailboat with the OB on the transom, and there are drawbacks to that arrangement also.

Ariels are fine little boats.