What is this? I think it might be a swim ladder…

[graemefindlay]

I think it might be a swim ladder with a stand off for a transom that hangs over (like a folkboat) but I can see the female attachment point and balancing the points of the hooks on the deck seems precarious…
Any suggestions on what I should be looking for as the female end?

 

[Clancy Moped]

It clips onto your bow pushpit or anchor for when coming in bows to.

 

[graemefindlay]

Well I did not expect that answer!

 

[Clancy Moped]

Well I did not expect that answer!

The longish bar with the Y joint goes against the bows to give you stability.

 

[graemefindlay]

Like this?

 

[Clancy Moped]

Bingo.

 

[jbweston]

I have one, possibly identical. I bought it in Sweden. The hooks go over the middle rail of the pulpit, one to port, the other to starboard. I found the y-piece didn't quite fit my boat so had a different one fabricated to use in its place.

At many Nordic and Baltic harbours, the boat lies bow to a jetty (there is little or no tide) with the stern attached to a buoy, a lazy line or a stern anchor that is dropped as the boat moves in towards the jetty, so the means of access is over the bow. My boat, like many boats built there, has a split pulpit with a gap over the bow.

Boaring over the bow is so normal that some Swedish crews board that way even when in a marina with a pontoon running along the side of the boat as is normal in a British marina.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Ours was built in Turkey to fit our Rocna with a hinge so it could be half the length when needed.

 

[thinwater]

It clips onto your bow pushpit or anchor for when coming in bows to.

Pulpit. Personally, I also prefer stern rail to pushpit.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Pulpit. Personally, I also prefer stern rail to pushpit.

Pendent.

 

[jbweston]

Pendent.

Yes, the bow ladder, when rigged, is pendent. From the pulpit.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Yes, the bow ladder, when rigged, is pendent. From the pulpit.

Like I give a cluck the guy knows what it's for now.

 

[rogerthebodger]

WHat you need is a ladder that can be fitted in various positions around the keck

Mine will fit on the bow fitting or the transom for bow or stern boarding. It can also be fitted at mid ships for easy boarding in a seaway.

I can als fit my ladder on my solar taga to clean the solar panels of get to antenna located high on the stern

https://flic.kr/p/2hB7QJG

https://flic.kr/p/231P6r1

https://flic.kr/p/22JfWtx

https://flic.kr/p/WVi1Rw