Can it be saved or is it headed for the skip?

[MagicalArmchair]

I think probably the latter sadly!

 

[Stemar]

If you really don't want to splash out for a new one, turn it upside down and tie it on through what is now the top step.

 

[pete]

Skip before you end up in the water or worse.

 

[Minerva]

Skip before you end up in the water or worse.

This!

especially at this time of year when the risk of falling in is quite so serious, just don’t risk it. It’s served its time - time to replace.

 

[neil_s]

Make a wooden one - 5 bits of 4 x 2 softwood and two lengths of 8 mm studding should do it!

 

[Metalicmike]

Your lines have pulled it apart, Drill holes through the plastic so that you can run your lines through the space under the top step. You could re enforce it as well with some plastic tube but i dont think it would be necessary.

 

[Sandy]

Do you have a hot glue gun?

 

[MontyMariner]

Drill horizontally through the top supports and tie them together with a wooden pole or rope.
Then good for another ten years.

 

[VicS]

Unless it can be made air tight and re-inflated it is useless

 

[scozzy]

Looks like a hairline crack under bracket has made a start on other side as well? Get rid before someone gets hurt

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Get your credit card out and go here ....

Majoni Majoni Fender Ladders

.... IMHO ..... it's fooked.

 

[Refueler]

Clean it up .... liquid vinyl glue to glue the broken part back into place and to seal the crack on other side.
Drill through the step itself side to side to pass a length of plastic water pipe through ... liquid vinyl again to glue in place and seal. Cut pipe flush to sides.

You now have a double fixing ... securing rope can pass through the water pipe to deck (make it so rope cannot slip through the pipe .. you can still use the original lines to the old repaired and up to deck as well ..

 

[PaulRainbow]

A lot of potentially dangerous bodgery being suggested to save £39.99 (and that's not counting the costs of the bodging materials) !

 

[Refueler]

A lot of potentially dangerous bodgery being suggested to save £39.99 (and that's not counting the costs of the bodging materials) !

I regard such as iffy anyway - when wet can be a risk ...

Not bodgery .. guy asked if it was possible to repair ... which is yes ... whether thats way to go is another matter.

 

[MontyMariner]

A lot of potentially dangerous bodgery being suggested to save £39.99

£68 for a 4 step.
'Reengineering' can make things stronger!
Obviously it won't be very good as a fender but I've seen all sorts of boarding steps that you might class as "potentially dangerous".

 

[rogerthebodger]

Cut a hole in the side under the top step and thread some seat belt webbing through and under the top step and used some D loops as the new attachment points.

Cut off the 2 current hanging points so they cannot be used again.

I made some steps like that using seat belt straps and 4 planks of wood with slots cut in the end of each plank for the vertical seat belt straps to locate in and fixed with dowel pins through the seat belt straps

 

[William_H]

Perhaps replacement is best however for a repair...I would get suitable glue. Nigel suggests liquid vinyl glue. I would get some kevlar tape and firstly satturate a patch of tape with glue and cover the hole. Then user the tape to go though the attaching holes with several wraps to pull the attaching lugs together Again satturate the tape and glue it down to the body.
Or for a real bodge just cover the gap with glue and lash cord many times around between the fixing holes to pull lugs together.
Lastly change the attachment on the boat so there is less force pulling the lugs apart. ol'will

 

[Stemar]

I wouldn't trust glue - or anything that relied on repairing the tear. A pro might be able to do it, but I certainly wouldn't trust my nearest and dearest on any repair I could make.

I still reckon that the only safe way would be to turn it upside down and tie it round what is now the top step.

 

[Refueler]

I wouldn't trust glue - or anything that relied on repairing the tear. A pro might be able to do it, but I certainly wouldn't trust my nearest and dearest on any repair I could make.

I still reckon that the only safe way would be to turn it upside down and tie it round what is now the top step.

I would use the glue to seal the item and stop water entering ... certainly not as structural !

Use of the top step as support structure would IMHO serve the purpose ...

PRACTICAL Boat Owner may be rekindled ??

 

[PaulRainbow]

I would use the glue to seal the item and stop water entering ... certainly not as structural !

Use of the top step as support structure would IMHO serve the purpose ...

PRACTICAL Boat Owner may be rekindled ??

Or is that Practical Bodge Owner