Complexities and WAG as to cost.. hinging the arch?

[Buccaneer]

Let us pretend together.
I am confronted with a fixed bridge at 19.5 feet.
I’ve that 67CMY I’m looking at.
It’s something like 18.6 at the FB windscreen.
What do you think it would cost to put a hinge on the arch?
It’s got to be less $$ than taking it off then putting it back on down river of the bridge.
Wild Ass Guesses?

 

[Boatsb]

Hinge will be 3x drop and re stand cost.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

I cut mine myself and had a hinge welded in. My cost was the cost of repainting it which it needed anyway. My guess is you could get it done for under $2500. I had the yard pull mine with the crane on the travelift and put it on my trailer. If you do that then you can take it to a machine shop and have the work done.

 

[whoover]

Also once the modification is done you can lay it down anytime the need arises. I just helped move a 68' Queenship and we had to lay the arch down for the Erie canal.

Walt Hoover

 

[Sadey]

Just went under that bridge. Cost me $150 which was a $50 tip to each guy to pull the arch. We set it down on the flybridge floor. Then Springbrook charged me $700 to put it back on. It’s a royal pain in the ass to take everything off cut through the 5200 to pluck the arch. It’s our second and last time. If I were planning on going back-and-forth, I would follow Sky‘s advice and hinge it for sure.