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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:28:38 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:02:54 GMT, "Glenn \(s/v Seawing\)" wrote: "Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message . .. On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:06:51 GMT, "Glenn \(s/v Seawing\)" wrote: Hi! Looking to pick your brains a little. I am making some major changes to my boat this year. Some of you think I'm nuts & that alot of these changes are not necessary. I remind you that my wife is eager to go back cruising for a year or two at a time and lots of your wives are not. :-). One of the additions we are looking for is the addition of a swim platform. Our boat is a Gulfstar 41' Auxillary (the sailboat hull & not the trawler hull). This vessel is a centre cockpit. We are looking to build a swim platform on the stern as well as a fairly substantial boarding ladder from the platform to deck level. I'd like the platform to be fairly sturdy. Please post your advise, observations & experience. I need to have some ideas on design, construction methods & pitfalls I've not yet imagined. Thanks all! Glenn. s/v Seawing. I see a substantial number of sailing boats with swim platforms and substantial boarding ladders - usually on boats that have cruised a lot. I suppose that if you are using a wind vane steerer the platform would have to accommodate the vane but other then that I don't see a problem. One possible point - many marinas use overall length to calculate the fees and a folding platform might save a bit of money in that case, Bruce-in-Bangkok (Note:displayed e-mail address is a spam trap) Hi Bruce. Thanks for your response. At this point, we don't spend much time in marinas, but this can be a concern & should be thought about. We are currently using a wheel pilot...not sure about the future of a wind vane, should be decide to take on longer passages. One concern that's been raised is following, or following breaking seas. Any idea how some of these folks protect themselves from damage in this regard? Thanks! Glenn. s/v Seawing. A couple of the swim platforms I have seen installed were by people who I know have done substantial amounts of cruising and frankly the question never came up. One of these boats made their entire living for about 10 years chartering and certainly must have ran into some bad weather. Another boat had made a couple of trips to Chagos which is a fairly substantial Indian Ocean trip. My opinion (for what it isn worth) is that it is probably not something to be overly worried about. Given the design of the average 40ish foot cruising boat the transom is really pretty narrow so a, say, two foot swim platform framed in stainless with a teak deck would be, what? 2 X 6 feet * 0.5 as a teak grating is half holes. That is an area of 6 square feet. If you make it so that it folds up then essentially it is "0" area. If my wife read this I'd already be a building.... Bruce-in-Bangkok (Note:displayed e-mail address is a spam trap) Further to the message above. Compare a "modern" sail boat with a "sugar scoop" stern and a similar size boat with a swim platform. About the same area exposed to waves.... Bruce-in-Bangkok (Note:displayed e-mail address is a spam trap) |
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