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Old 06-18-2019, 09:41 AM   #19
akdadio
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Originally Posted by makobuilders View Post
Climbing up a ladder from a bouncing dinghy onto a rolling boat is not grand. But my cousin on his old sailboat built a small 2ft square platform that folded down on his side boarding ladder, just above water height. Basically a portable swim platform.


I like side platforms - less motion. Am getting tired of boarding after a dive from the stern, which is always bouncing up and down even at anchor.
I have a rigid boarding ladder with fold down platform that does help with the comfort of boarding the dink. I have my 70 year old mom on board and she is managing fine with something solid. I will get a photo of the arrangement (when not underway and in heavy fog) and post it.

In my experience if the waves are bad enough to make boarding the dink an issue then its not dink weather. And in that kind of weather boats that have swim platforms are seeing their platform awash. Or they are fighting to keep the dink from going inder the platform. My real world experience on such matters.
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