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2. List of boat lifts - Wikipedia

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   Geheyan dam boat lift, also in Hubei Province, capable of lifting vessels of 300 tons displacement. The dam was completed in 1994, but technical difficulties delayed the opening of the ship lift for four more years. Longtan dam boat lift, capacity to lift vessels of 250 tons, in a basin 40×10.8×1.8 meters, and a vertical lift of 68.5 meters. [2]

3. Crest Marine - Wikipedia

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   Crest Marine LLC is a boat manufacturer in Owosso, Michigan which makes Crest Pontoons. The pontoon boats were originally built by Maurell Products, whose owner Maurice Schell ran the company for almost 50 years. [1] [2] In 2010 the company was purchased by a small group of Detroit, Michigan-based investors who renamed the business Crest Marine ...

4. Travel lift - Wikipedia

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   A small motor-boat lifted from the water by a travel lift at La Rochelle, France, 2016. A travel lift or travelift (also called a boat hoist, boat gantry crane, or boat crane) is a specialised type of crane used for lifting boats out of the water and transporting them around docks or marinas. [1]

5. Slipway - Wikipedia

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   A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers towed by automobiles and flying boats on their undercarriage .

6. Portable boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A portable boat lift is not a boat lift which is commonly found attached to a dock. Although some devices allow one person to separate a boat from a trailer or lift a boat up and out of the water, they are not by definition portable. The term "boat lift" originally referred to lift locks. In modern usage the term "boat lift," as opposed to ...

7. Abraham Lincoln's patent - Wikipedia

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   Abraham Lincoln's patent relates to an invention to buoy and lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river. Abraham Lincoln conceived the invention when on two occasions the boat on which he traveled got hung up on obstructions. Lincoln's device was composed of large bellows attached to the sides of a boat that were expandable due to air ...