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weluvlife
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Initially Posted - 05/18/2006 : 12:28:57

Hi,

Have any of you found a convenient way of storing an el-toro sized dingy on or around your c25 while moored in your slip?

Sorry for the cross-post in the General forum, but I realized that I should be more specific to the Catalina 25.

Dragging it up over the forward lifelines up onto the bow does not sound appealing, even if I find that I have the strength to do this.

I thought of using the spinnaker halyard to hoist it up from the water onto the foredeck. Not sure how well this will work either.

Another idea I had was to lift it out of the water with the main topping lift and leave it in the vertical position. Securing it properly is a big concern here of course.

Any ideas?

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Mark Eichman
Lake Don Pedro,CA
www.lakedonpedrosailingclub.org
'86 c25 TR, SK

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 05/18/2006 : 16:52:17

Mark,

If your goal is to get the dink on deck, I think you're on the right track with the spinnaker halyard. To get my D4 from water to deck and back, I attach the spinnaker halyard to the bow. I also run the spinnaker halyard through a snatch block attached to the forestay. The height of the snatch block on the forestay is controlled by the jib halyard and spare jib sheet used as a downhaul. Raising and lowering the snatch block on the forestay has the effect of moving the spinnaker halyard fore and aft. To level and position the dink on deck, I also attach the pole topping lift to the stern of the dink. I do any needed rotation with the dink hanging vertically by its bow.

A separate question is whether all that work and scratches on both boats is justified. I only did it when cruising, and then only when entering or leaving open ocean. At home, I keep the D4 upside down in the back yard. I'm still contemplating the design of a PVC pipe rack to get it up off the grass. I'd also like to come up with a simple, inexpensive, easy to operate means of launching, retrieving, and storing it at a dock or seawall, including some way to keep rain water from accumulating in it.

I think the K.I.S.S. solution to the rain water issue is probably a removable drain plug at or near the lowest point in the dinghy. To pass the dinghy over the lip of the seawall, the simplest thing might be some sort of wood & PVC pipe ramp/rollers/slide. To get it in and out of the water from a high dock, I'm envisioning some sort of counter weighted homemade pulley or swing arm davit system.

For now, I just wrestle it over the lip of the seawall padded with carpet scraps. The carpet scraps last less than a year, but there's a lot of free carpet in this world.

-- Leon Sisson

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 05/18/2006 : 17:23:53

I keep mine tied up under the dock, directly in front of my boat's bow.

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Response Posted - 05/18/2006 : 22:59:10

Thank you Leon and Lightnup.

Leon, I too relish a good K.I.S.S. method too :) Keeping your comments in mind, I'll continue to figure something out that works.

Lightnup, with your "dink" in front of your boat, doesn't it cause your boat to stick out beyond your slip too far? Is the dink floating? Does it have antifouling paint? When you come back to the slip towing your dink, how do you end up positioning it in front of your bow.

Thanks,

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