Hauling a sailboat out of a Normal driveway

A 25 ft O'Day 25 had been parked on stands in someone's driveway in Normal for three years. The keel bolts were weeping rust down the hull, leaving orange streaks that had started staining the concrete underneath. The boat wasn't going back in the water. The owner knew it. The neighbors knew it. We got the call on a Tuesday. The trailer was on stands, not wheels, which meant we couldn't just hitch and pull. The driveway was tight, and getting a flatbed in there meant parking on the street and hand-winching the hull across the grass to the truck. We brought a crew of three, set up the dolly system, and worked the boat off the stands and onto the trailer over most of a morning. The mast was already down, which helped with clearance. Once we had it loaded, we hauled it to our yard in McLean County where we pulled the keel and prepped the hull for the processor. The fiberglass went to the recycler. The keel bolts went to scrap. The stands stayed behind, and the concrete got its driveway back. Crews cover all of McLean County: Bloomington, Randolph, Empire, Le Roy, Old Town, Heyworth. We schedule pickups the same week you call, and we know Normal well enough to work around the seasonal boat moves in and out of storage that happen every spring and fall. Your 25-footer comes off the trailer, onto the truck, and out of your life in one trip.