Arthritis and inflatables

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What with advancing years and arthritic knees, I have problems boarding my inflatable to get out to the mooring - I'm very loath to pack in this sailing lark - any advice would be welcomed.
OK - Go to a marina, I'm a bit too tight to go from a £300+ mooring to a £2000+ marina. and Dover can be a difficult entry for a Caprice due to the tides.
 
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reginaldon said:
What with advancing years and arthritic knees, I have problems boarding my inflatable to get out to the mooring - I'm very loath to pack in this sailing lark - any advice would be welcomed.
OK - Go to a marina, I'm a bit too tight to go from a £300+ mooring to a £2000+ marina.
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Did you consider something like a Tabur Yak III rigid dinghy? It has a catamaran type hull and is very stable.

I second the suggestion for glucosamine tablets.
 
Sybarite said:
Did you consider something like a Tabur Yak III rigid dinghy? It has a catamaran type hull and is very stable.

I second the suggestion for glucosamine tablets.
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I have the tablets and have considered that dinghy - could go down that route. Of course jumping into an inflatable was not a problem five years ago!
 
Some places/clubs offer a water-taxi service which might make things easier. Queenborough used to when I moored there.

Alternatively, how about a pontoon-accessible mud-berth at, say, Conyer or Hoo? Very suitable for a Caprice. Cost midway between a mooring and a deep-water marina.
 
AndrewB said:
Some places/clubs offer a water-taxi service which might make things easier. Queenborough used to when I moored there.

Alternatively, how about a pontoon-accessible mud-berth at, say, Conyer or Hoo? Very suitable for a Caprice. Cost midway between a mooring and a deep-water marina.
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Thanks, but I'm on the S coast of Kent., I brought my boat round from Oare Creek because I had no tidal window there,
apart from that it was good!

Re Tabur Yak type dinghy - no room in Yacht Club store for those and no water taxi - I'm an awkward cus!
I only live 800 yds from the harbour here.

Of course I could board her at low tide and wait for the tide to come in, but as an almost full time carer, I can only grab a couple of hours occasionally when the tide is right - I'm on a half tide mooring.
 
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Why are you having problems with getting into the infatable that you think a different dinghy may solve?

The inflatable is nice and soft and is quite forgiving in many respects, I have an Avon and a grp dingy....I almost always use the Avon....much kinder on the Knees !

PS: I met up with 'Daft Willie'....Mad Frankies brother last week....nice bloke!
 
reginaldon said:
I have the tablets and have considered that dinghy - could go down that route. Of course jumping into an inflatable was not a problem five years ago!
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Last summer I was on the side of a slimy slipway and had to get into the dinghy. Rather than put my bottom on this i decided to drop into it.

I landed in the back and my daughter who was in the front was catapulted out. On landing I rebounded out the other side and into the harbour, all to the amusement of the passengers of the ferry just beside us.

The shame of it....!!!
 
reginaldon said:
What with advancing years and arthritic knees, I have problems boarding my inflatable to get out to the mooring - I'm very loath to pack in this sailing lark - any advice would be welcomed.
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This could help: (and yes I have a vested interest)

http://www.geoderm.co.uk/ourshop/prod_1960409-ALOE-VERA-PAIN-GEL-COLD-HOT-Frio-Calor-110mls.html

and just to show a level of fairness and advice; there is another product that I've heard is recommended.

http://www.maverix.org/brands/O24.html

On this one in UK do NOT buy from any other source; there was, and still is, a major financial scam (negative option billing if you understand the term) with way out of date products that have lost their potency.
 
Shakemeister said:
Cod liver oil and glucosamine tablets !
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May be a drift from the OP, but many years ago I developed arthritis in my index finger. Doctor told me to stop my daily breakfast orange juice and change to pineapple juice. MAGIC, cured me in days, and if I miss-out the pineapple for a week or so (away on holiday etc) finger stiffens up.
I've recommended this to a number of people and had positive feed-back froma few of them.
Worth a try, cheaper than a marina!!
 
Sybarite said:
Last summer I was on the side of a slimy slipway and had to get into the dinghy. Rather than put my bottom on this i decided to drop into it.

I landed in the back and my daughter who was in the front was catapulted out. On landing I rebounded out the other side and into the harbour, all to the amusement of the passengers of the ferry just beside us.

The shame of it....!!!
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Look out for yourselves on You Have Been Framed!

Mike.
 
Thanks folks for all your contributions, which I'm carefully considering & may well take some on board.
I'm fortunate, altho' an octogenarian I have scarcely any pain, but the problem is boarding the inflatable with it bobbing around - I find it difficult coping with the changing angles and I try to drop down asap, getting out is quite a trial also, so different three or four years ago, even though it was around then.

Sybarite, was it Gallic humour at the expense of their Anglo Saxon guests?
 
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reginaldon said:
Thanks folks for all your contributions, which I'm carefully considering & may well take some on board.
I'm fortunate, altho' an octogenarian I have scarcely any pain, but the problem is boarding the inflatable with it bobbing around - I find it difficult coping with the changing angles and I try to drop down asap, getting out is quite a trial also, so different three or four years ago, even though it was around then.

Sybarite, was it Gallic humour at the expense of their Anglo Saxon guests?
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Have you tried an inflatable floor, stiffens up the dinghy no end.
 
reginaldon said:
Thanks folks for all your contributions, which I'm carefully considering & may well take some on board.
I'm fortunate, altho' an octogenarian I have scarcely any pain, but the problem is boarding the inflatable with it bobbing around - I find it difficult coping with the changing angles and I try to drop down asap, getting out is quite a trial also, so different three or four years ago, even though it was around then.

Sybarite, was it Gallic humour at the expense of their Anglo Saxon guests?
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The honest truth Reg - as Swmbo never tires of reminding me. She was in the middle and as a horse rider stayed in the saddle!
 
Sybarite said:
The honest truth Reg - as Swmbo never tires of reminding me. She was in the middle and as a horse rider stayed in the saddle!
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Phew that's hard!
Incidentally on my last outing, getting out of the inflatable at the slipway, I ended up going for a little swim
to public acclaim!
 
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