john m
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Does anyone have a jet ski on the back of a jeanneau prestige 36 I’m thinking of doing this but not sure about space any tips appreciated
Jet ski on bathing platform
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PaulRainbow
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Don't know about space, but it sounds like a lot of weight that far back on a 36ft boat.
Bouba
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How do you plan to launch and recover ?
Minerva
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I do hope after razzing a jetski round the anchorage of an afternoon, you intend to fire up your sound system to 11 for sundowners in the cockpit and then keep your generator running all night.
Egret
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Wingfoilers are the way to go
SC35
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A jetski could easily weigh 200-300kg.
That's too much weight in the wrong place, imho for that size of boat.
That's too much weight in the wrong place, imho for that size of boat.
Little Ricky
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No a lot of love for jet skis I see...
SC35
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Jet Skis are a lot of fun.
It's just a bit OTT to be carrying one around on a 36ft boat.
A 10hp engine on the back of a tender would also be fun.
Little Ricky
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Although a 36 foot Prestige doesn't have a massive bathing platform, so might be tricky anyway weight aside.
rafiki_
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A friend has a Spark on the platform on his Fairline Squ 42. Works well, but this is a significantly larger boat.
Chiara’s slave
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The weight might even be a structural issue for the bathing platform. Plus you’d probably need two people to launch it. 2 average guys are another 160kg.
PaulRainbow
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To be fair, we have friends with a jetski on the back of a 55ft Squadron. They motor to one of the local ski areas to play around on it. Owning a jetski doesn't automatically make you an anti-social oik.
Little Ricky
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Im sure Anti Social Oik were a punk band in the 70's.
ari
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Not automatically, maybe...
SC35
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I don't know if you have seen "Below Deck", but my style is more akin to grumpy Captain Lee, with headphones or a Kindle at anchor,
john m
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Thanks for the reply’s I was thinking of the Hurley Davit but if it’s too heavy I’ll just leave it
roa312
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Hi John. I was also thinking Hurley but you could also look into Nordav. I have seen this system installed and it actually turned out cheaper than Hurley. I know that my local boatyard has installed several of these davit systems. It might be the same with yours, and you could ask them how to test the strength of your platform.
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Hurricane
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Our boat is bigger but so was our Jetski
Jetskis are a liability - manoeuvrability and harder than a tender requires careful planning at anchor, especially when approaching the mother ship.
They are also notoriously un-reliable - a bit like JetRibs.
But that didn't stop me having one for a couple of years - ours was a monster - capable of 75 mph
I planned for it to go onto the Flybridge but we never lifted it that far - put the tender on the Flybridge with the JetSki on the bathing platform.
We have a crane that lifted them on / off
Jetskis are a liability - manoeuvrability and harder than a tender requires careful planning at anchor, especially when approaching the mother ship.
They are also notoriously un-reliable - a bit like JetRibs.
But that didn't stop me having one for a couple of years - ours was a monster - capable of 75 mph
I planned for it to go onto the Flybridge but we never lifted it that far - put the tender on the Flybridge with the JetSki on the bathing platform.
We have a crane that lifted them on / off
stelican
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We once (At owners insistance) fitted a Sea-Doo jet ski to a Fairline 31 Corniche used Davits to launch and recover
jrudge
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The sparks are quick and in relative terms for a ski quite light.
They are also very unstable when not underway. We looked at one some years ago as a tender replacement. There were many reasons why we did not do it but one was that using it as a tender was not really that practical as if nothing else 2 adults getting on stood a decent chance of rolling it over without being very careful.
It is a lot of weight on the back of a small boat but you may or may not find that just using tabs sorts it to a point it is acceptable
They are also very unstable when not underway. We looked at one some years ago as a tender replacement. There were many reasons why we did not do it but one was that using it as a tender was not really that practical as if nothing else 2 adults getting on stood a decent chance of rolling it over without being very careful.
It is a lot of weight on the back of a small boat but you may or may not find that just using tabs sorts it to a point it is acceptable
