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@goatsarah When the family lived in Thorpe Bay, Essex we were part of the bi-annual lift in / lift out where they would get about 50 yachts from their summer moorings in to the boat yard. Basically two enormous cranes, a flat bed and a high tide were needed. The light/smaller boats were done earliest/latest and the big ones as close to high tide as possible. You would take the boat in to the jetty, slings would go under the hull, and it would be lifted out of the water, across the road which ran along the prom, and on to the truck. It would get driven to the boat yard where it was unloaded by another crane and deposited for the winter. Spring was the reverse. We were doing a boat every 15 minutes over two days / two tides!

@goatsarah Our boat at the time was about the same size as yours but was a dual keeler as it would dry out and stand on the sand. It was one of the largest boats the handled. Masts were pre dropped. That would be done the weekends before. Again it was done on mass. You would drop a bunch of masts in a day!