Storm Haul-Out Plan
Marker NineHow many hulls come out before the clock and the ground run out.
The call gets made at four in the morning on a legal pad, by somebody working out how many lifts fit into the hours left while also trying to remember how much ground is free behind the shed.
A storm is coming and the yard has to get boats out of the water. Two things run out — the time you have left to lift, and the ground you can block on. This counts both, in your numbers, and names every boat that does not make it and which of the two stopped it.
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What Storm Haul-Out Plan solves
A haul-out is bounded by two things at once and yards usually count only the first. How many hulls fit through the machines in the hours left is a cycle-time question. Whether they then fit on the ground is an area question, and it is the one that bites, because a yard that plans on hull dimensions runs out of room before it runs out of list — the number that matters is the hull plus the blocking and walking space around it. This counts both, in the yard's own figures, and names every boat that stays in the water along with which constraint stopped it, because time and space have different answers: another machine and an earlier start fix one, somewhere else to put them fixes the other. It predicts nothing about the storm — the hours remaining is a figure the yard types in from whatever it is watching, and every answer moves with it. And it does not decide: which boat goes first is contracts, relationships and judgement, and the page says in those words that the tool counts and the yard decides.
Yours would be built the same way.
This one runs on made-up data. The version built for your business runs on yours, and you own it outright. Builds start at $2,500. That is a floor, not a quote. What yours costs is agreed before any work begins. The first conversation is free.