Portable, self-contained, self-adjustable craft lift and wet/dry storage system

A portable, self-contained, self-adjusting craft lift and wet/dry storage system, which comprises:

• (a) longitudinally-extending frame means for supporting a craft during the raising, lowering and wet/dry storing of said craft, said frame means including a pair of spaced-apart, substantially parallel, laterally-extending base members, and a first pair of upwardly-extending frame members mounted on one of said base members, and a second pair of upwardly-extending frame members mounted on the other base member, said respective first and second pair of upwardly-extending frame members, and said respective pair of base members, each defining a hollow interior section;
• (b) a pair of longitudinal-extending, spaced-apart pontoon means connected for slideable engagement to said frame members for buoyantly supporting in water said frame means during the raising, lowering and wet storage operations, said pontoon means including self-adjusting guide means joined thereto and disposed for said slideable engagement in an upward and downward direction along said frame members;
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• (c) a pair of lift means, including lift cables attached at one end to each of said lift means and passing within each of said hollow interior sections and being attached at the other end to each of said pontoon means, said craft being raised and lowered by each of said lift means moving both of said pontoon means in a respective downward or upward direction with respect to said frame means, which in turn moves said frame means in respective upward or downward direction.

A portable, self-contained, self-adjusting craft lift and storage system, designed for both wet and dry craft storage, which comprises:

• (a) longitudinally-extending frame means for supporting a craft during the raising, lowering and said wet and dry storage of said craft;
• (b) a pair of longitudinally-extending, spaced-apart pontoon means connected to said frame means for buoyantly supporting in water said frame means during the raising, lowering and wet storing of said craft;
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• (c) lift means mounted to said frame means, without being mounted on said pontoon means, and secured to the underside of said pontoon means, said pontoon means coacting with said frame means to provide self-adjustability to said system, said craft being raised by said lift means pulling said pontoon means in a downward direction with respect to said frame means which in turn moves said frame means in an upward direction, and said craft being lowered by said lift means moving said pontoon means in an upward direction with respect to said frame means which in turn moves said frame means in a downward direction.

A portable, self-contained, self-adjusting craft lift and storage system, designed for both wet and dry craft storage, which comprises:

• (a) longitudinally-extending frame means, including transversely-extending frame means defining hollow interior sections, for supporting a craft during the raising, lowering and said wet and dry storage of said craft;
• (b) a pair of longitudinally-extending, spaced-apart pontoon means connected to said structural frame means for buoyantly supporting in water said frame means during the raising, lowering and wet storing of said craft;
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• (c) lift means including lift cables, said lift cables being attached at one end to said lift means and at the other end to the underside of said pontoon means, for securing said lift means to said pontoon means, said lift cables extending from its attachment to said lift means within said hollow interior section to its being secured to the underside of said pontoon means, said pontoon means coacting with said frame means to provide self-adjustability to said system, said craft being raised by lift means pulling said pontoon means in a downward direction with respect to said frame means which in turn moves said frame in an upward direction, and said craft being lowered by said lift means moving said pontoon means in an upward direction with respect to said frame means which in turn moves said frame means in a downward direction.