Portable connotes, in this case, a piece of equipment designed to separate a trailerable boat from its trailer that can be easily transported from location to location. There are a number of Boat Lifts available to include those found at Wikipedia under a search for “Boat Lift”, but there are few truly “portable” boat lifts. The few Portable Boat Lifts on the market, designed to be “portable” are built by Portable Boat Lift, Inc, Brownell, and Yardarm. These devices allow one person to separate a boat from a trailer, by themselves. They differ in design, cost, weight, and function but all can be taken from location to location and used to remove boats from trailers for the purpose of Boat or Boat Trailer storage, boat or trailer repair, maintenance, accessories, painting, or for any other reason one may have to separate a boat from a trailer. The general idea behind Portable Boat Lifts, as opposed to Boat Lifts, is its transportability frequency which is usually used to perform some sort of work to either the boat or trailer where it would be beneficial to have the boat separated from the trailer to perform the work at any number of locations. Individuals that want to perform work to their own boat or trailer are afforded the ability to do this work with a Portable Boat Lift that used to have to be performed by those with shops or certain locations that had cranes, fork lifts, or access to other equipment that could do the work for the individual. Also the Portable Boat Lift allows Mobile Boat Mechanics, Bottom Painters, and others to bring a Portable Boat Lift with them to any location needed to perform work away from a shop or any certain fixed location. Portable Boat Lifts are relatively new to the Boating industry and most people don’t know they exist and none other than those mentioned that manufacture Portable Boat Lifts have been found. They have allowed individuals the ability, for the first time, to separate boats from trailers safely, in minutes, and at a location of their choosing, by themselves.