Carrick Lifter Invention

What do you do if a disability or old age starts to make it harder and harder to get to onto your boat to travel to a waterside home?  It looked like selling up and saying a lot of sad farewells was the only option until the locals at Milsons Passage started to scratch their heads and think well outside the circle.

The “Carrick Lifter”, named after its chief inventor and builder John Carrick has miraculously solved the problem.  

A winch like the ones 4-wheel-drive enthusiasts use to tow themselves out of bogs lifts the driver (Stewart) up out of the boat, seat and all. 

He’s then safely lowered to a pontoon or jetty to transfer to a wheelchair or electric scooter.  For the return journey, the process is simply reversed. 

 Water ballast counter weights and the Webbster's twin hull construction of the boat keep it stable. 

No one has ever seen or heard of anything like it, but it’s a classic case of necessity and community spirit being the mother and father of a wonderful invention.