Here we are craning the mast onto the top of Cakewalk per the plan.
The twin runway surface in the foreground is a sloping ramp on the dry-dock with a pathway for each of the rows of airslides. It had to slope at the same angle as the ground ashore, remaining in plane with it. It must be high tide with empty bilges for us to be higher than the ground. We appear waist high. When we begin to transfer the yacht onto the dry-dock it will be flush with the ground and it has to remain so, in spite of weight shift and the 7′ tide.
You can see the guide posts with rubber tires on either side to keep the cradle on the ramp. Falling off the ramp would be bad.
Here we are craning the mast onto the top of Cakewalk per the plan.