Tender Davits & Tender Theft Prevention

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I'm looking around for a new stanchion mount davit system and a decent security product(s) to prevent the tender from being half-inched once hoisted (tender is a Williams Turbojet 285, new yacht will be a Southerly 57RS).

As always, I'm interested in your opinions, recommendations and experiences. Looking for the best products on the market, not a 'bargain.' Photos of your davits always welcome :D and if you bought them from a particularly helpful UK based chandler, feel free to tell me who they are.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Hum, and what boat is this 300-kilo tender sposed to be a-dangling from, hm? You need a crane to lift it up and release so it sits on something strong. Not friggin davits.

I lightly checked back on your posts and praps you not yet taken the plunge with a specific boat, so maybe this is just speculatve query too? If so, my advice is never to buy a jetrib cos if there’s a problem with the engine or the rib it’s a crane-out job to get it sorted. Normal outboard and sepret boat much better.
 
tcm said:
Hum, and what boat is this 300-kilo tender sposed to be a-dangling from, hm? You need a crane to lift it up and release so it sits on something strong. Not friggin davits.

I lightly checked back on your posts and praps you not yet taken the plunge with a specific boat, so maybe this is just speculatve query too? If so, my advice is never to buy a jetrib cos if there’s a problem with the engine or the rib it’s a crane-out job to get it sorted. Normal outboard and sepret boat much better.
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Moving from mobo trawler back to sail. Perhaps should have mentioned the yacht I'm intending to order. Will update OP. Tender was on flybridge, launched via crane. Have now decided on Southerly 57RS, but want to keep tender (it's a damn nice one) and have full beam master cabin, instead of tender garage option. Hence need for davits like these:

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Assumed (apparently incorrectly) that for yachts of this size, and for a 290kg tender, suitable davits were obtainable, and that there are owners out there with yachts in excess of 17 meters who could offer advice. Again, perhaps I should have been more specific. Have always enjoyed the objectivity re. marine products on this forum, hence the question, and wanted as wide an opinion as possible before I talk to the yard. However, perhaps I will merely listen to what Southerly advise, and not bother anyone on here.

The £100k question was because I was originally going to buy a small sailboat as a second yacht. Plans now abandoned, as explained above.

Thank you for your comments. Have a nice day.
 
Mino said:
I'm looking around for a new stanchion mount davit system and a decent security product(s) to prevent the tender from being half-inched once hoisted (tender is a Williams Turbojet 285, new yacht will be a Southerly 57RS).

As always, I'm interested in your opinions, recommendations and experiences. Looking for the best products on the market, not a 'bargain.' Photos of your davits always welcome :D and if you bought them from a particularly helpful UK based chandler, feel free to tell me who they are.

Thanks in advance.
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Try these people. http://www.cooneymarine.co.uk/pages/about-us-whittall.html
We have Whittall davits and no complaints at all.
 
I was under the impression that the big Southerlies had a tender dock in the transom and that the tender it was made for was a Williams Jet Rib. Might be worth checking this out-you never know, I might be right for once!
 
rotrax said:
I was under the impression that the big Southerlies had a tender dock in the transom and that the tender it was made for was a Williams Jet Rib. Might be worth checking this out-you never know, I might be right for once!
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He mentioned in an earlier post he's gone for the version without the dinghy garage and much larger aft state cabin.
 
Dinghy mounting

Saw an interesting way of getting the dinghy out of the water whilst sailing in Greece this year which still allows you to see where you have been.

The boat had solar panels on a rear gantry. They had put the rear of the dinghy on the "sugar scoop" and then made a harness to lift the front of the dinghy out or the water using a tackle system up to the solar panel gantry. You can adjust the height dependant on waves.

I would have to "beef up" our gantry but seems an easy solution with the minimum of fuss to launch.
 
With the weight of your intended tender, I think I would chose to build a solid platform to secure the boat , plus a single arm crane to lift it into place. Thus the lift only has to consider the deadweight of the tender, rather than the jerk after the tender has been filled by a big wave, and it is much easier to construct a platform to take the weight.
 
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