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An easy solution is to replace the ladder with a set of steps that run
diagonally across the transom, a set up that humans will find more
comfortable as well. Your swim platform needs to be wider so you can
walk around the stairs, but that can usually be accomplished by moving
the platform out on the brackets. A number of the newer boats are set
up with stairs, versus ladders, but with the price differential between
older and newer boats being what it is, there is usually plenty left
over to make a simple modification like ladder to steps.
Flybridge access is much more difficult to modify, although the base of
most ladders can be moved to increase the angle to the point a dog can
negotiate the steps, if you are willing to give up a bit of space. My
fifty pound island dog has no problem with a seven step ladder whose
base is only fourteen inches out from vertical, although she doesn't
like climbing it in a seaway. She only tried coming down the ladder
once - her feet hit every step, the last one just a nanosecond before
her nose hit the floor - and now slides down the front of the flybridge
to the brow and down the pilothouse windows to the deck.
Bob Phillips,
Another Asylum, Tortola, BVI
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