Halyard instead of davits

[sheigra]

To fit davits on my sunshine 36 sailboat will be an expensive bit of engineering. Instead I'm thinking of using a halyard to lift and hold the dinghy in position across the stern. The position would be similar to that provided by traditional aft davits, and I can then tie it firmly in place. I've never seen this method used but I think it would work.
For longer passages I would deflate and stow the dinghy.

Has anyone any experience of this method of carrying a dinghy?

 

[Salty John]

I've seen it done with the dinghy secured at the aft quarter. I see no reason why it shouldn't work at the transom.

 

[chasroberts]

Have a look at these they may be of help.

Chas

 

[Cliveshep]

Quite ingenious, you'd have to paint your boat's name and port of registry on the bottom of the dinghy of course as it will obscure your transom, and possibly your stern nav light. I wouldn't want to leave the o/board attached to their pivoting bracket though, unless it was super light. That could be a bit of a tug to lift.

 

[TigaWave]

I made this type of set up on my Bav, two big D rings were mounted on the transom at either side, the dinghy had two big snap hooks attached to the rings on the tubes on one side. It made mooring end emptying shopping easy and then when you were done it would just pivot up onto the transom. I put extra ropes around from the D rings to take the weight off the dinghy fixings once it was up.

It worked really well and made it very quick to launch and recover as well as very secure for people getting in off the transom steps.

 

[mainmarine]

I am going to fit a similar system but my boat has a gantry with the stern light high up. At the top of the gantry I am going to fit some blocks and lines to pivot and lift the dinghy, with some broad webbing straps fixed to the transom to locate and support the lower tube. Also with the boats name on the underside of the dinghy, people won't know which boat is unoccupied when my dinghy is tied to the pontoon, unless of course it flips over.

 

[sheigra]

Thanks for the alternatives, but my query was regarding using a halyard to lift and hold the dinghy, rather than traditional davits.