Marty: My Admiral couldn’t pull the strings for our dinghy davits either, but I didn’t want electric. I finally ended up with twin 900 lb. single speed hand crank trailer winches, using Amsteel grey 5400 lb. single line. Now lifting the dinghy is easy peasy, even with outboard and me in it. The winch bases are drilled for twin 1.5” stainless U-bolts each to grip the bottom davit tube, and both now have sailboat type line locks just in case. Being an old rigger, it took me quite a while to trust single line strength, but eventually I learned, and now I also have the same winch and single line on our rotating dinghy crane for MOB recoveries as well.