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Interesting! Looks like the vertical struts are a later addition to either take some of the load away from the main mounting points, or...

I have seen similar before and my assumption has been that either the hull reinforcing for the davit mounting isn’t quite up to...

Can’t say that I know as the admin team take care of it. I will ask when we are back at work.

Having served a dog watch in the RN and operating coded vessels at work I have always kept a log book on our family boats and have found...

Snap davits certainly have their place and we had them for a while on the Hardy ( and a couple of sports cruisers) but they limited what...

To boaters everywhere!

Usually a piece of thick marine ply glassed to the hull to spread the load and either large penny washers or metal plates on the nuts/bolts.

As already advised, stainless davits were primarily made by Simpson and Whittall, and Cooney are now the major player and still use the...

I agree, Paul is very helpful and having met him once in person on a pontoon he was happy to chat and was as helpful as he is one here...

I think it’s fair to say that to the vast majority of the public we ‘forum sailors’ are all boring. I used to have a couple of mates...

At least some people are trying to help the OP, what have you contributed to the thread ? Oh, that will be nothing at all.

A bit of an update.. New carpets throughout have made a massive difference. Lovely underfoot, noise reducing thanks to underlay and...

Things have changed rapidly in the last couple of years. when I planned the new electrics in my project boat 3 years ago AGMs were the...

This interested me because we recently upgraded our batteries and went for more batteries and from wet to AGM. We didn’t consider...

Yeah pre NDR, it could take 3/4 to an hour from my place to the A11. Now it's about 1/2 hour. Southampton is 215 ish miles Farnborough...