Padded Guardrail Webbing Inserts

[Redfox226]

Hi
A while ago I'm certain I found Padded webbing custom made at Jimmy Green, but it seems to have disappeared. Do any forum members have a source for this? I need some for my boat, but also my sister needs replacement webbing straps for a hoist (to get her into the swimming pool)!

 

[Redfox226]

Bump - Help please.

 

[Daydream believer]

Would a bosuns chair do the job
If your sister can cope without the straps being padded ,but just wide ones, then buy a tie down load strap with a soft webbing & cut & sew the webbing to suit. You can get it 75mm wide but make sure you do not get a stiff one. You may be better off buying a soft webbing & getting a sail maker to sew it for you. Once you have the shape right they may even sew in a foam luff tape as from a furling jib to give the padding.

You could try N & C Phlexicare who make items for the disabled.
There are numerous manufacturers in the disabled care industry who make hoists for disabled - I fitted a few in my construction days & they all seem a bunch of robbing barstewards; particularly if the customer was a private buyer.

For the boat I use a plastic back which is better than the webbing. I have access to 6mm Trespa but I did start with 9mm ply wood cut the shape of a table tennis bat & fixed with 3 cable ties. It can be slid along to suit where I sit as helmsman. This can just be seen on the port guard rail. Sorry only picture I have.

 

[Redfox226]

Hi - Thanks for the reply

Would a bosuns chair do the job

Unfortunately not - any 'enclosed' strop arrangement would require her to be lifted to fit into it..

If your sister can cope without the straps being padded ,but just wide ones, then buy a tie down load strap with a soft webbing & cut & sew the webbing to suit. You can get it 75mm wide but make sure you do not get a stiff one. You may be better off buying a soft webbing & getting a sail maker to sew it for you. Once you have the shape right they may even sew in a foam luff tape as from a furling jib to give the padding.

Had thought about that, but was hoping for an 'off the shelf' padded webbing - ah well....

You could try N & C Phlexicare who make items for the disabled.

Unfortunately she tells me that the 'elven safety' have got involved, and lifting strops are a no-no so no longer produced. Every 'disabled' person has different requirements (especially if they've had their disability for some time....)

.... they all seem a bunch of robbing barstewards; particularly if the customer was a private buyer.

Totally agreed - probably capitalising on the 'bespoke' nature of the business, but they do appear to have significant margins...

 

[Daydream believer]

Unfortunately she tells me that the 'elven safety' have got involved, and lifting strops are a no-no so no longer produced. Every 'disabled' person has different requirements (especially if they've had their disability for some time....)
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In my later " consultancy" days i was involved in design of disabled bathrooms extensions etc rather than building them. What really p..d me off was that people with disabilities often had to wait for 20 weeks for an appointment with the care adviser for an assessment to decide on whether they qualified for any disability adaptions etc.
I could have done about 6 visits a day in one area to measure & design shower areas in DP houses. The people I had to meet were so damned lazy that I could rarely do more than 1 or 2 a day as they always " had to get back to the office" & I had to travel 180 miles for those trips. I charged them circa £ 350-00 a day for what was effectively 2 hours work plus traveling & I just could not get them to realise that they were wasting money big time by not making visits available for me to do at the same time at no extra cost.
I know nothing of your sister's plight but I bet your sister is probably laying there suffering totally needlessly because some w..k..r cannot get there finger out & sort a lift for her

Sorry but it p ..ss..s me right off !!!!!!!!

 

[Redfox226]

In my later " consultancy" days i was involved in design of disabled bathrooms extensions etc rather than building them. What really p..d me off was that people with disabilities often had to wait for 20 weeks for an appointment with the care adviser for an assessment to decide on whether they qualified for any disability adaptions etc.
I could have done about 6 visits a day in one area to measure & design shower areas in DP houses. The people I had to meet were so damned lazy that I could rarely do more than 1 or 2 a day as they always " had to get back to the office" & I had to travel 180 miles for those trips. I charged them circa £ 350-00 a day for what was effectively 2 hours work plus traveling & I just could not get them to realise that they were wasting money big time by not making visits available for me to do at the same time at no extra cost.
I know nothing of your sister's plight but I bet your sister is probably laying there suffering totally needlessly because some w..k..r cannot get there finger out & sort a lift for her

Sorry but it p ..ss..s me right off !!!!!!!!

Agreed
Just taken around 3yrs! to get a new chair which she's paying for........

 

[Redfox226]

Result - Trident UK will make up custom lengths of padded dinghy toestraps with D ring ends.