Hi Jack, It's nice to hear the boat survived so well, I also store my boat in a similar fashion and am worried to think I my have the same trouble. What type of fitting actually Broke? I'm using two Micro blocks mounted on the ceiling and two fixed bail snatch blocks, one on each end of the boat. I'm using 1/4" double braid nylon line to haul it up & down and have two loops of nylon webbing wrapped around the boat with an S hook to connect it to the snatch block.