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From: John Blackburn (no email)
Date: Thu Jun 01 2006 - 09:23:06 EDT
Murray:
My wife and I also have two 17' fiberglass sea kayaks on our 44'
DeFever, we're using a mooring line tied off to the top rung of the swim
platform ladder to get into and out of our kayaks, but I would like
something that's solid and connected to the boat to grab ahold of. I
also read the piece in PassageMaker and would have liked more details on
the inverted L. You have me thinking now (and that is a scary thing to
contemplate) however, what about a horizontal bar mounted to one of the
vertical swim platform ladder supports. The connection should allow it
to be stowed transversely when not in use and swung directly aft and
locked in place when needed. You could play around with it as far as
how high off the swim platform you would mount it to be comfortable
using it as a Chinning Bar to get into and out of the kayaks off the
swim platform. Think it'll work?
John Blackburn
44' DeFever "Yak Rack"
murray wrote:
>On the subject of kayaks, I have had kayaks off and on since the late
>sixties in various shapes, sizes and materials. My wife and I now own
>two 17 foot fiberglass sea kayaks and I just purchased a Necky Sky 8
>foot plastic kayak for short trips with our trawler while at anchor. Our
>main problem getting in and out of these kayaks on to our swim grid on
>our 42 foot Monk trawler. The swim grid is 17 inches off the water and
>my wife has bad knees so we need some sort of bar or brace that we can
>attach to the teak swim grid to lift ourselves out of (and into) the
>kayaks. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I was wondering if anyone had
>any devices or ideas that work for them. PassageMaker recently had a
>brief article about a boat with brace in the shape of an inverted "L"
>that looked interesting but the details were sketchy and not the focus
>of the article. I'm hoping that someone has perfected a device that
>works well for them (i.e. first hand experience). Thanks in advance for
>your input.
>
>
>
>Murray
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