maanantai 5. elokuuta 2013

Snap davits and how to install them totally against the manuals recommendations.


I ordered my parts that you are supposed to glue to the inflatable but sadly they were not delivered before the start of my summer vacation, even after that TNT messed the delivery so my package was delayed for one whole week. Because of the delay I was forced to do the gluing in water and naturally near sunset. 

Below is a snap of the stands that attach to small brackets in the main boat and in the dinghy. They are extremely handy and easy to use. 


Here we have the view from the top. The hinges are attached to the transom and the pads and stainless parts work nicely together. Unfortunately I needed to move the "horns" closer to each other, thus making excess holes to the transom. The larger rope is my lowering and raising rope. It extremely easy to maneuver the dinghy, one hand is enough.

On the lower left corner you can see that there is enough clearance for my anchor winch to work perfectly, so far I have used the dinghy once to re-position my anchor. Picked up the anchor roved to a better spot and dropped it, after small wait I used my anchor winch remote to pull the excess line and make my anchor nice and tight.. nice..


The added bonus of having the dinghy stationary when my daughters are climbing in and out of it is also nice. All it takes is a "snap" and you are secured.


The downside is below. It's not exactly pretty nor is it the most convenient when your buoy line goes from the cleat and rubs against the dinghy. So far I have I have just lowered the dinghy to the water after we have moored the boat, not that big of a job, but still...


1 kommentti:

  1. Moi,
    huikea tarina tähän asti ja hieno vene, itse asiassa unelmavene. Minulla Scand 27 Adriatic (3,06 leveä) ja olen miettinyt taavetteja ja kumivenettä. Onko tuo hyvä systeemi/mistä ostit/mitä maksoi?

    VastaaPoista