Ben, could you expand on angle of secured dinghy methods? Our dink, in the davits, is held tightly to the up-force reinforcing bar (tube) and the davit tube intersection with crossed ratcheting straps, for traveling. That puts the dink in a nearly flat position. It won't move unless those straps were to break.
I infer you would prefer it be severely angled? In our case, a boarding wave would be largely deflected by our solar panels which mostly cover it - about 2/3 - and, during a rainstorm, we get relatively little water in it... Our dinghy has a lifting issue which we're trying to resolve with Walker Bay, so currently we don't have it slung. However, the typical attachments would be one at the bow and two at the stern. Tilting the dink would make the stern one very uneven in its pull. Short of a sling arrangement (which would put the dinghy very much lower than the block lifting it), I'm at a loss to see how to make it happen. While we have a substantial platform, it's held at the ends by tube to the pushpit, making it impossible to do a platform mount on its edge, not to mention that in a heeled attitude, the ends would be in the water, even though the platform's 2' off the water (we frequently have the edge of the platform under water in a 20* heel, and if going fast enough, due to squat, at 15*)... Thanks. L8R Skip, eyeing "Fiona" in a lovely 15 knot breeze currently in Marsh Harbour, great for wind power! Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
