West Marine Boarding Ladders for a Typhoon?

[Mike Wainfeld]

I was in West Marine today and saw a nicely fabricated SS boarding ladder to hang off the gunwhale. Anyone have any experience with one of these on a Typhoon?

Thanks,
Mike Wainfeld
CD Typhoon "Regalo"



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[Serge Zimberoff]

Mike,
Didn't use their's but had a rigid one. Gave it away...just one more piece of stuff that wouldn't stow well below. Currently very happy with one of the rope and step versions. Collapses into a tiny stack for storage. Just have to remember the trick of stepping on the bottom step in the water first. This gets the swimmer into a vertical position and able to climb up in a normal fashion. Stepping on a step above the bottom causes the ladder to wrap under the hull making it very awkward. We hang ours from one of the cleats on the cabin top.
Serge



serge@srtrop.com

[Dave Olson]

I just bought a boarding ladder for our 25D from Ocean Engineering/Johnson. They are the OEM for CD boarding ladders. They had excellent workmanship and all the prints for all the ladders. The number can be found by searching this board.
Dave

Mike,
Didn't use their's but had a rigid one. Gave it away...just one more piece of stuff that wouldn't stow well below. Currently very happy with one of the rope and step versions. Collapses into a tiny stack for storage. Just have to remember the trick of stepping on the bottom step in the water first. This gets the swimmer into a vertical position and able to climb up in a normal fashion. Stepping on a step above the bottom causes the ladder to wrap under the hull making it very awkward. We hang ours from one of the cleats on the cabin top.
Serge

Dave_Olson@starkey.com

[Arnold Amenda]

I was in West Marine today and saw a nicely fabricated SS boarding ladder to hang off the gunwhale. Anyone have any experience with one of these on a Typhoon?

Thanks,
Mike Wainfeld
CD Typhoon "Regalo"

Mike, I made a 100% rope ladder with rungs about 4-inches wide, out of 1/4-inch line. I hang it off a winch and have tested it. I find it virtually as easy to just climb aboard my Typhoon as to use the ladder. Out of Seattle, boarding ladders are mostly for safety, not swimming. I would test any rope ladder in advance for use with a Typhoon because the hull curves away so quickly, the ladder might not help. I am thinking of how I could arrach somthing to the motor bracket?
Arnold



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