Boarding ladder

[Jonathan Woytek]

Hi all. As we prepare for spring and our first season with our Jason 35, I was wondering what others do about boarding ladders. This is a safety issue for me, especially because I’m a big dude and if I need to be or end up in the water, I need to be able to get myself back on the boat with minimal outside assistance. I’m thinking something like rope ladder, possibly with stand-offs to help keep the ladder from hugging the hull.

Jonathan

[shag mills]

Jonathan,  We used a single piece of equipment for over 10 years.  Multi purpose was a key factor for many items.

I wanted a fender board for offset and to keep hull clean.  This fender board  was about 30 " in length. Both ends had a few folds of firehouse on each end connected with a single layer on exterior.   The folds have about a 4 inch offset. This offset was sufficient for most people boarding for the dock to have good footing when boarding.  This devise had hangers of 3 strand

nylon  which we secured over the turnbuckles center cross bars.

The turnbuckles and shrouds provide hand grips.

Material not mentioned : clear  doug fir 2"x4" oiled

The dock height and gunnels of inflatable were the the basis for height positioning. 

The lower support arm on our Monitor at times had a basic rope ladder in velco tube as well.  

A Life Sling and the tackle , sufficient in purchase, to allow the weakest member to haul you or a small whale to deck level!

Each Jason is unique, post some pictures of your floating home.

Mike Mills

AUTUMN

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019, 21:50 Jonathan Woytek <woy...@dryrose.com wrote:

Hi all. As we prepare for spring and our first season with our Jason 35, I was wondering what others do about boarding ladders. This is a safety issue for me, especially because I’m a big dude and if I need to be or end up in the water, I need to be able to get myself back on the boat with minimal outside assistance. I’m thinking something like rope ladder, possibly with stand-offs to help keep the ladder from hugging the hull.

Jonathan

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[Alan]

A lot of boarding ladders are junk. For years we tried to get along with junk. Then we were anchored in Reid Harbor of Stuart Island next to a very nice Bob Perry designed cutter and noticed a boarding ladder just like we had always wanted. I asked the young couple who owned the boat about the ladder and they said they had bought it at the Seattle Boat Show in the previous January from a company they thought was named Scanmar. That seemed doubtful to me since Scanmar had always specialized in vane self steering, but the following January I made my way to the Boat Show and the Scanmar booth. Sure enough! They had a very well made and handsome boarding ladder. In fact they had two models that differed primarily in length. The shorter one was for boarding at the dock, while the other once was for getting up and down out of the water. Scanmar's owner, Mike Scheck, tried to sell me one of each, but I felt I could only afford the longer ladder at that time. I purchased and it installed on Norwegian Steam very handily. This year I went again to the Boat Show and ordered the shorter ladder. Take a look at the website www.scanmarinternational.com. The product is the FoldAway Boarding Ladder.

[Jonathan Woytek]

Thanks for the thoughts so far. I’ve contacted Scanmar to ask them some questions. Pinniped doesn’t have a rail at deck level, so I need to see what mounting options they might be able to offer. I’m also considering making a pilot ladder-style ladder for emergency use, and putting together a nicer wooden ladder with some built-in hold-offs that can be hung from the stanchion bases or other deck anchors for planned use.  

For reference, here’s a photo of one side of her (from right after we took our first sail on her, which convinced us that she was the one!). 

Jonathan

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