Free Yacht Chapter 7: Get an Even Better One and Fabulize it.

Step 5 Where and How to Fix it?

We debated how and where to do the major work on the boat. Should we let low tide lay it on a beach and try to sand and paint the bottom before the tide came back in? That's an actual traditional method and is called "careening". After looking over tidal charts we realized that we'd have to get it on a beach during high-high tide and would have to work like crazy during the low-low tide before the low-high tide hit. The pursuing high-low tide would only give us a short window to work in, and if the subsequent high-high tide wasn't as high as the high-high tide that got us up there, we'd have trouble getting it back in the water. We decided it was worth hauling it out at a boatyard, where the moon's gravity only messes with you if you're drunk.

Victor found a few boatyards in the Bay area that could lift multihulls out of the water. The best deal was at KKMI in Richmond, a dozen miles north of us. I was driving cross-country with my mother in an antique Toyota pickup, due to arrive on friday. Victor scheduled the haulout for that weekend.
On Friday they untied the boat and motored to Richmond. The boat worked fine.
The boatyard hauled it out and propped it up on blocks.
Victor, Kenny, and Patrick stayed up late sanding the hulls.

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KKMI!  Dude, they're good but they ain't cheap.