KellysEye
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I used to tie a rope to the handle then climb aboard and pulled the outboard up over the guardrails.
Transferring the outboard between dinghy and mother ship
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rogerthebodger
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In windows on my PC I am OK but it's in Photobucket I go in to edit select orientate, turn the pic, I then apply and save overwriting the original. It looks as if its saves the corrected pic but when I go back to look it's still the same, no changes saved.
Hadenough
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No, more like Victor Meldrew, as usual. So are you going to follow any of the suggestions posted or are you just looking for a reason to pack up?
Seajet
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VicS,
I have a pad on the pushpit where the 2hp tender engine lives - locked on when not in immediate use, I heard of a couple on a visitor's mooring at Langstone entrance who heard a hoise, looked out and found a fishing boat crew behind trying to unscrew their outboard off a similar pad !
I find having a small but strong cleat inside each quarter of the tender's stern is really useful / nigh on essential to both keep the dinghy positioned, and add a little lift and stability.
I know your tender is double skinned but a simple answer would be to completely through bolt with long bolts, maybe through tubes.
I did this for my single skin tender, and used a couple of mouse mats glued on to protect the cruiser topsides from the round / pan bolt heads - the mouse mats also make fenders !
I have a lanyard on the ' little engine ' too; the process is to lift it vertically onto the pushpit pad from the tender ( leaving the engine leg outside the rail ), then in the reverse process I lower the engine into the tender with the lanyard having secured the dinghy alongside - especially if singlehanded.
Hope this or something helps a solution, we may have crossed swords now and again but I've always thought we'd get on well if our boats met.
I have a pad on the pushpit where the 2hp tender engine lives - locked on when not in immediate use, I heard of a couple on a visitor's mooring at Langstone entrance who heard a hoise, looked out and found a fishing boat crew behind trying to unscrew their outboard off a similar pad !
I find having a small but strong cleat inside each quarter of the tender's stern is really useful / nigh on essential to both keep the dinghy positioned, and add a little lift and stability.
I know your tender is double skinned but a simple answer would be to completely through bolt with long bolts, maybe through tubes.
I did this for my single skin tender, and used a couple of mouse mats glued on to protect the cruiser topsides from the round / pan bolt heads - the mouse mats also make fenders !
I have a lanyard on the ' little engine ' too; the process is to lift it vertically onto the pushpit pad from the tender ( leaving the engine leg outside the rail ), then in the reverse process I lower the engine into the tender with the lanyard having secured the dinghy alongside - especially if singlehanded.
Hope this or something helps a solution, we may have crossed swords now and again but I've always thought we'd get on well if our boats met.
VicS
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VicS
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Considering the suggestions, with the exception og yours. Need to explore a few ideas
I dont need a reason to pack up. other than the fact thatthe time has come
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Seajet
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VicS,
that's a shame but I have known friends decide when they've had enough, in fact I've just recently been rather surprised by an ultra-staunch couple of friends, only just into retirement age, deciding to stop sailing their quite big-but-still-handleable-boat; they've simply been everywhere, done the gales and calms over the decades, got more sailing Tee shirts than most here and now had enough.
One last suggestion I was going to make re getting the tender outoard on & off, was I've sometimes thought one could combine a simple derrick into a ' raked stainless ensign staff with a block at the top '.
Have fun.
Andy
that's a shame but I have known friends decide when they've had enough, in fact I've just recently been rather surprised by an ultra-staunch couple of friends, only just into retirement age, deciding to stop sailing their quite big-but-still-handleable-boat; they've simply been everywhere, done the gales and calms over the decades, got more sailing Tee shirts than most here and now had enough.
One last suggestion I was going to make re getting the tender outoard on & off, was I've sometimes thought one could combine a simple derrick into a ' raked stainless ensign staff with a block at the top '.
Have fun.
Andy
VicS
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Its the simple derrick idea that interests me. The ensign is happy rolled rolled round its wooden staff up in the fo'c'sl somewhere.
Seajet
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Yes, I'm not an ensign staff type either; I just tie the ensign to the backstay.
It was the idea that a simple raked stainless pole with a block at the top could be dual purpose, and maybe look a little less derrick -like - I once saw an Anderson 22 with full davits & dinghy on the back, the poor boat didnt look happy !
But a simple stainless pole about stanchion dia' would look OK, could have a stern nav light / cockpit floodlight and even dold down to make an underwater emergency step as well I suppose but my original thinking was to keep it elegantly simple, not the ' Russian Spy Trawler ' look some boats have.
It was the idea that a simple raked stainless pole with a block at the top could be dual purpose, and maybe look a little less derrick -like - I once saw an Anderson 22 with full davits & dinghy on the back, the poor boat didnt look happy !
But a simple stainless pole about stanchion dia' would look OK, could have a stern nav light / cockpit floodlight and even dold down to make an underwater emergency step as well I suppose but my original thinking was to keep it elegantly simple, not the ' Russian Spy Trawler ' look some boats have.
reeac
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Here's my mini-davit in original 22 mm. copper pipe prototype form. As it went green in the marine atmosphere I had it copied in 25 mm. S/S and we've been using it for 11 seasons now. The 6 mm. braided line is tied onto the outboard and run through the block to a genoa winch with a loop on the far end slipped over a cleat as a safety measure. I made it the minimum size so that the motor just clears the transom and the davit just sits there unobtrusively. As I stated earlier it will support my 75 Kg with no problem.
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Jaguar 25
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Device looks interesting. Could something be done similarly using the boarding ladder?