DIY boarding ladder

[pcatterall]

We carry an aluminium ladder tied to the side rail. It is a general purpose sort of thing designed mainly as a gang plank ( we have a light ply insert which ties over the rungs and stores under a mattress.
I am considering adapting it as a boarding ladder. It is long enough to attach the top rung to the top pushpit rail and still be several feet in the water ( to aid climbing aboard) unfortunately my transom is raked inwards so I really need some stays to make the ladder more rigid. I don't really want to fit anything onto the transom so it needs to be something I can attach to the ladder as required. Several ideas are floating around my little brain but I bet someone here with a bigger and better one has designed just the thing ???

 

[sarabande]

I'd prefer to see a boarding ladder rigged somewhere amidships. Less vertical movement than at the transom, and there will be no need of any stays (unless you run an IOR racer )


If you arrange the lines which attach the ladder to the gunwhale/stanchion effectively, you may be able to arrange that only one line needs to be moved to convert the ladder from stowed to deployed. If you store the ladder outboard, then a quick release line will deploy the ladder from a dinghy or MOB.

 

[alahol2]

Any of these suit? http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/ladder-stand-off