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YES. If the tabs are down they will sit on top of the forks and will be supporting the entire weight of the boat. The tabs arre thin sheet metal. There is no way that they can support that kind of weight. Just a little bit down is ok. All the way down, they can get pretty bent up.
The lift operator should be able to tell that something is wrong before he gets the boat out of the water. The stern will start coming up before the rest of the boat, and they can just tell that something is wrong. They put the boat back down and raise the tabs before continuing. If they don't notice it before they lift the boat out of the water, all bets are off.
You need the checklist for high & dry:
Tabs UP.
Drive DOWN
Drive CENTERED.
Antenna DOWN.
Anchor light DOWN.
AC seacock CLOSED. (Optional: I found that if they tilt the boat too far back while moving it with the lift, the AC lines will empty themselves and the AC won't prime until I put it on plane once. Annoying when you show up Friday night with no intention of leaving the dock until Saturday AM and need AC. Doesn't happen with the seacock closed.)
Jeff,
Just to be clear, pressing the bottom of the rocker switches (up arrows) will raise the tabs. Do not try raising one side while simultaneously lowlow ering the other as you will blow a fuse.
Did that too! Ha. Newbie. Maybe I blew rise and now tabs up. Ha
The way to remember is that the rockers move the way you want the boat to move. So if the port side of the bow is running high and you want to lower it, you push the port side rocker switch top side.
Now the really goofy thing is that when you do that, it is actually operating the starboard side tab. That is because the boats pivot off a centre point...
Don't try to remember.........do as Charlie suggested. Order an automatic tab retractor (ATR) and install it. Its a sealed box that mounts under the panel and wires into existing terminals......takes about 30 minutes to install one. I wouldn't own a boat with tabs without an ATR.
The ATR senses the absence of 12V when you turn off the control circuit and runs the trim pump in the up position for 2 minutes. I wired mine to the electronics master, but you could just as easily use the ignition circuit.