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Old 11-01-2011, 10:42 AM   #8
Marin
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RE: Relocating the Tender

Here are some shots of how we mounted our 9' Livingston.* For years we lowered and raised it with brute force--- two of us on a stout line fastened to the outboard (top ) gunwale of the dinghy.* Then one day the lightbulb went off and I realized that if we replaced the existing boom fall on the boom with a 100' fall, we could use the fall to deploy and retrieve the dinghy wihout having to move the boom at all.* So what had been a two-person, 1,2,3-Heave job became an easy job that only takes one hand.* Sort of a poor man's Seawise Davit.

Note that we mounted the dinghy with a considerable lean into the boat.* This is to make the dinghy push against the* standoff mounts rather than pull on them, and it also means that any spray or water that splashes up inside the dinghy immediately runs back out.

Something we learned--- if one carries a Livingston this way rain water will collect inside the trough along the bottom edge of the dinghy that is formed by the rolled-over edge of the gunwale.* Drilling a small hole in at each end of this trough (so it's in the rolled over part of the gunwale) lets this water drain out very nicely and no green gunk and slime will form in the trough.
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