john_morris_uk
Well-known member
We hang our dinghy on davits from the back of our Westerley Sealord and we wouldn’t be without them. I’m also a strong believer in having davits strong enough to hang the dinghy and outboard. We crossed the Atlantic with a dinghy complete with outboard on the back of the boat without any problems or issues. I did think about taking it off, but in the end it stayed there and it was not a problem. Our beam is 4 metres and our dingy is a fraction less than that. Here’s a photograph of our boat with dinghy on davits. We’ve changed the dinghy since this photograph was taken, but the new one is still a very similar size.
I designed the brackets for the davits to fit on myself and had them made at a stainless steel fabricator in Plymouth. It’s fastened both through the transom and the deck with backing plates in stainless, Where the fastening was needed to go through the deck, the balsa core was removed and a solid plug of epoxy was cast and then the hole re-drilled. Hope that makes sense and good luck with your choice of davits. You won’t regret fitting them.
A remember of what I said about making/buying davits strong enough to take the dinghy and the outboard. It almost completely alleviates the convenience of being able to launch the dinghy at will if you then have to start craning or lowering and manhandling an outboard onto the dinghy.
I designed the brackets for the davits to fit on myself and had them made at a stainless steel fabricator in Plymouth. It’s fastened both through the transom and the deck with backing plates in stainless, Where the fastening was needed to go through the deck, the balsa core was removed and a solid plug of epoxy was cast and then the hole re-drilled. Hope that makes sense and good luck with your choice of davits. You won’t regret fitting them.
A remember of what I said about making/buying davits strong enough to take the dinghy and the outboard. It almost completely alleviates the convenience of being able to launch the dinghy at will if you then have to start craning or lowering and manhandling an outboard onto the dinghy.