Recent content by Bruce Lundgren

Thanks for your reply. I'll definitely check in on the GB forum to see how other GB 36 owners have dealt with this.

Thanks all for your responses/suggestions and for your kind welcome to the Forum.

Just looked a bit closer at the photo and see that I missed the grab rail. That might do the trick! Thanks

This is what I was thinking of but perhaps extend the side rails further up...and curved at the top down to the cabin top..sort of what a swim ladder would be like at a swimming pool. Thanks very much for the photo!

My wife can handle the stairs inside. It's just the couple large steps up to the top of the deck house. I'll look for someone in the Portland ME area that can fabricate a wider ladder with hand rails and perhaps install it in the back of the aft cabin in the stern.

Thanks all for your comments. We love the boat and will see if there's a shallow ladder with shorter steps or have one fabricated. The height is maybe 3 ' from the deck to the aft cabin top. With this she feels that she can negotiate it. From there the ladder and hand rail are OK to get to the...

Thanks for your kind welcome. The forum seems like a great site with a wealth of information available. Prior to the last 15 yrs. we sailed RI and ME for 25 yrs. and are now looking forward to getting back Downeast.

We're buying a Grand Banks 36 and the small steps from the port side deck up to the aft cabin roof will be difficult with my wife's knee issues. Have any GB 36 owners in the Forum with similar issues come up with a solution?