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I have a Caribe on davits. It came with a glued-on ring on the inside of
the bow. I don't like hanging it from glue joints so I put an eye through
the rigid bottom in the bow and use the two eyes on the transom for the
rear lift. When it's raining I can lift the bow high enough and lower the
stern enough that rain water runs out the drain plug. I don't know if
yours is a RIB or not - not sure what I'd do with a soft bottom. You can
glue on rings wherever you need them if you use the right glue and make the
pads big enough.
Stan
S/V Seabird V
At 12:34 PM 2/10/2004 -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
>I have an Achilles dink hanging from a pair of davits. I don't much like
>the way I've got it attached to the davits. I was looking critically at
>the web site for the dingy lift (advertised in Sail Mag), thinking
>erroneously, that it might help me. I realized from looking at the
>pictures they had attached to rings mounted on the inside of the tubes. I
>don't have such things on my dink. I'm currently using the small
>rings where the mooring/tow lines are fed through. The disadvantage of
>that is when the front tube loses air, the bow of the dink becomes lower
>than the stern and the boat fills up with rain water. Eventually
>something breaks, since the system wasn't designed to hold many gallons of
>fluid.
>
>So how do I avoid that problem. I don't mind spending a few bucks on the
>right solution.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
>
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