Tournament Kit Preview

Your Leisure Boat Lift can safely hold and support any standard boat. But when it comes to something a little faster, sharper, and more cutting-edge boats; a Tournament Kit is required. These are boats that have large fins on the underside of the boat, inboard motors, and a lower, sleeker design. The Tournament Kit offers these types of boats a higher lift, a newly placed stop board for the fins, and 4 guiding posts to make steering onto the lift very easy.

As you can see, the tournament kit is composed of several strong, unique components manufactured by us at DNR Specialty Welding. Although it doesn’t seem that exciting lying on the ground, attach it to a Leisure Boat Lift and you’ve got yourself a powerful lift perfect for holding the latest in tournament boats.

Vessels we wish we could lift

Leisure Boat Lift’s primary objective has always been simple, every-day use for tournament boats, patio boats, PWCs and your normal recreational boat. There are a lot of downsides when it comes to the attempt of lifting more luxurious, heavier boats. Lifting a bigger boat requires more use of power and electrical riggings, increases the need for maintenance (due to the increased weight strain on lifter components) and a higher risk of failure when all of these heavy parts are in motion. For these reasons, we tend to avoid lifting things heavier than your every-day, lake front recreation boats. Boats like yachts, cruisers, trawlers, and industrial ships are best left tied to a dock or anchored, where the only thing their weight is bearing down upon is the water.

There are other boat lift designs out there that have weight capacities far into the tens of thousands, able to lift different styles of large, heavy boats; but these styles (often hefty 4-poster lifts) have many cables and other riggings required to lift the boat; and these components are all at risk because they are left to sit in the water while the boat is off of the lift. Over 90 percent of boat lifts in use today share that trait, where an important component is exposed to the water, increasing how fast it wears. Leisure Boat Lift avoids this, and keeps all important parts far from the water. Many other lifts aside from LBL, like the large lifter shown below, attach to your dock for support and as mentioned before, carry a higher risk by holding so much weight with so many different components.
When you do decide to look for a boat lift, it’s very important to contact your boat’s manufacturer. There are many different styles and designs of boats, and some are not meant to be lifted (or have certain requirements or specifications when it comes to being lifted.) Being informed and well-read on how your boat lift works, proper maintenance, and knowledge of your own boat are all key on keeping your lift and boat safe for years to come.

Different Paths

LBL is a unique product. It’s hard to find a side-lifting, free standing, single-tower lift anywhere else. But another attribute to our little boat lift is its handy ability to have its lift kit switched in and out to anything you need. From a standard boat, to a tournament kit, to a patio boat. These are not the only choices, though. You can put pretty much anything on to the carriage cradle.

Just one example of Leisure Boat Lift’s flexibility is the above photo. Instead of putting a plain ol’ boat onto a lift, one customer requested a lifting dock. The lift brings the dock in and out of the water, and is used for anything from holding kayaks, canoes, tubes, and other toys, to lowering into the water just a touch and relaxing on it sprawled out onto a lawn chair. A lot of inventing and designing has been going on since the start of DNR Specialty Welding, and this is just one example.