Sunseeker Martinique 38 Davits

[Blue Star]

Hi all,

I am currently in the market for a Sunseeker Martinique 38, but before I commit I wanted to check what size tender and outboard I could use with davits without compromising the integrity of the stern, boat performance etc.

Recommended davit types would be great as well..

basically in the ideal world I would be able to have a Brig Falcon 330 tender with centre console and Suzuki 20hp outboard.

Any help / advice would be much appreciated.

 

[BruceK]

yeah, that's the problem with ideal worlds. In the end you'll have to make do with a 40 kilo tender with a 6hp on the back.

I bought some heavy duty davits on the punt off fleabay. They weighed about 30 kilo each. In the end I ended up with some rather light and flimsy affairs that I filled with concrete to stiffen them up. Even then I have ditched the 8hp in favour of a 12 kilo 3.3 and finally found a good fit.

 

[BruceK]

As it stands the tender is hanging four plus foot off the back of the waterline transom

 

[Mr Googler]

that would be a lot of weight and the boat is 3.35m wide so it would certainly fill up the stern!

you can also see, the mounting points (silver discs) are set quite far back so could be tricky to launch/recover such a big tender and you’d have no stern access.

Great choice of boat though ??

 

[BruceK]

How can you humiliate your boat with your name? That's going to knock 20k off the sell price

 

[Sticky Fingers]

... That's going to knock 20k off the sell price

Ooh he's selling. Just found the advert what's next?

 

[Mr Googler]

Ooh he's selling. Just found the advert what's next?

Anything except a Formula or Itama ?

fancy a v42 but I dunno. See what happens but another year at least with the sunseeker would be no loss

 

[Mr Googler]

How can you humiliate your boat with your name? That's going to knock 20k off the sell price

It’s a combination of mine and my daughters last names. Priceless to me

 

[Mr Googler]

Back to the OP.....I’d go Snap Davits as it would lay nicely on the stern when underway.

store outboard in the engine bay so probably 2.5m airdeck tender and 5hp 4 stroke outboard depending how strong you are!

 

[BruceK]

Anything except a Formula or Itama ?

fancy a v42 but I dunno. See what happens but another year at least with the sunseeker would be no loss

Be sure to listen for more strange noises ?

Back to the OP.....I’d go Snap Davits as it would lay nicely on the stern when underway.

store outboard in the engine bay so probably 2.5m airdeck tender and 5hp 4 stroke outboard depending how strong you are!

Snap Davits is a ghettoes invention. We like to drop and go.

 

[Blue Star]

Thank you all, I thought may well be the case.

 

[BruceK]

Ooh he's selling. Just found the advert what's next?

You might be interested in buying it. Look at that transom, what do you see ?

 

[markspark7]

Wouldn't leave anything heavier than a 5hp permanently on the back of a inflatable tender . it will rip off the transom if left there too long .
I had an 8hp Johnson on my tender hanging from davits that came with my boat. Been sat on the dry for 12 months whilst up for sale . Tender now has no transom having come unstuck due to the prolonged weight on the back.

Davits will lift far more than the tender transom can take.

 

[Mr Googler]

Thank you all, I thought may well be the case.

have you found a boat yet? There are a few knocking about with 41’s.....I’d go with 42’s. The supercharger helps get out the hole a lot. It’s not a light boat ?

 

[Blue Star]

Hi Farsco, no not yet, albeit we’re still trying to determine which boat would be the best all rounder.

Once decided the plan will be to purchase around Xmas time

 

[Mr Googler]

Funny you mentioned sedan 36 in the other thread.....that was my previous boat! ?

 

[Blue Star]

Amazing! Truth be told I love the look of the Martinique 38 including speed & fuel economy overcthe Fairline, but I’m trying as a minimum to purchase a boat capable of carrying a tender big enough for 3 -4 people with a centre console and as a minimum a 15hp outboard. I’m fairly strong so was thinking I could maybe store the outboard on blocks in the engine bay? Albeit not an easy job removing from the dingy to inside the boat in choppy water...

What are your thoughts on the Fairline 36 Sedan then? Would it be capable of supporting extra weight at the stern?

 

[Blue Star]

Funny you mentioned sedan 36 in the other thread.....that was my previous boat! ?

Apologies Farsco, I clicked reply but not directly to you... ?

 

[Mr Googler]

From memory....my Davits where rated to 175 kg. The brig 300 is 100kg so I think that should be ok without an engine.

now....plenty of room in the lazerette to store an outboard however...humping a 15hp outboard out and over the stern (remember, no doorway on the stern) then onto the tender is going to be hard work.

the tender was a yam 280 from memory.

Im 6’4” and doing that with a 4hp was a bit of a mission....especially whilst at sea.

 

[BruceK]

The amount of times I lost balance transferring a 8hp at 27kg from tender to swim platform in a slightly choppy sea doesn't bear thinking about. Standing one foot on a bobbing tender and one foot on the swim platform, as the stern rises it suck the tender under the swim platform and ejects it coming down. I may be the oddball here but in the several times I dropped the motor into the sea I never let go. You hang on to that baby and it will float, sort of, for about 5 seconds until the cowl fills with water and then it drops like a brick. On land 27 kilo's is a bit awkward but no issue to curl and lug about. Try that on 36 kilo and you are asking for trouble. If the davits cant lift the tender weight with OB then you will need another davit to operate as crane to lift and twist to store. This is why I said in the end the happy medium was a 12 kg 3.5 OB. The final straw came when I lost a rather expensive watch trying to hang on to the OB as it plummeted between tender and swim platform tearing the strap off along the way. Diving on it never found it either.