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eguevara
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Initially Posted - 03/31/2011 : 08:34:48

do you guys think that if I reenforce the bow pulpit from the inside I could mount a plank on it and not cause any damage?

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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 08:57:12

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by eguevara
 do you guys think that if I reenforce the bow pulpit from the inside I could mount a plank on it and not cause any damage?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddyguevara/5576654805/sizes/z/in/photostream/

thanks

-eddy
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">How would you use it? Sit on it? Stand on it? How much do you weigh? Pulpits are generally fairly strong, but, as they age, the welds can become brittle, especially on a salt water boat, and especially if the pulpit has been bumped hard a few times during docking maneuvers. I don't know if any of us can give you an exact answer. If it was my boat, I wouldn't feel comfortable putting my full 215 lbs. weight on it very often, but if you are a 175 pounder, it might be OK.

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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 09:32:12

I've put all my 230lbs on it. That's not spread out over the whole pulpit either. If you put a plank across it all, and it's in generally good shape, then I wouldn't worry at all.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 10:46:33

What is it used for?

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Ben
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 10:57:16

Makes me think of a fishing platform. :)

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pastmember
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 11:24:59

Maybe his last slip had no fingers, it looks old.
dock> dock box> plank> deck

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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 11:45:51

Another thing that is done similarly is a mast platform so the mast can rest on the pulpit and be trailored. The weight of the mast bouncing down the road is considerable.

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Sloop Smitten
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 12:06:35

I always just throw people overboard. Making them "walk the plank" always seemed a little pretentious to me.

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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 13:22:50

We use a similar arrangement for our mast holder and it hasn't been a problem. Your diving platform looks intereting.

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islander
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 14:15:59

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">What is it used for?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Cannonballs.....

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eguevara
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 15:21:54

It's purpose would be a diving/jumping platform for kiddos..
150 lbs or less... I would reenforce the bolts inside and make the board wider than the one you see in the picture..

-eddy

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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 15:54:16

My biggest concern would be th eshock loading/unloading could strees the FG if you get teh jump first, then dive effect. It gives you more height if you pump once or twice to get teh nose going up and down. (That could be taken so far out of context.)

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 17:40:15

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by eguevara
 It's purpose would be a diving/jumping platform for kiddos...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

We just unclip the coaming lifeline and jump off the side of the boat. This puts swimmers near the ladder as well.

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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 20:06:42

I jump from on top of the cabin and over the lifelines. I'm trying to figure a way to climb up to the spreaders. What can I say, I'm young, dumb, and full of rum.

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Response Posted - 03/31/2011 : 21:43:31

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I'm trying to figure a way to climb up to the spreaders<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

If you figure it out.....remember: pics or it didn't happen....

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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 04/01/2011 : 05:20:21

I'm thinking a collapsable ladder that hooks onto both spreaders. Portability is the hardest part to come up with.

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Response Posted - 04/01/2011 : 07:09:47

When sailing with my kids, their friends, and my nieces and nephews, swim calls are standard ops (keeps them coming back!) and every one of them just loved jumping off the boat into the water. So much so, there is literally a parade of very wet swimmers coming up the ladder, going through or over the stern pulpit, then walking on the cockpit seat over to the coaming to make the next jump. Needless to say, the cockpit soon becomes soaking wet and at times relatively slick. There were times they wanted to jump off the bow, but making their way forward on the sidedecks and around the shrouds/sheets, while sometimes wearing lifejackets, proved more hassle than it was worth for them. It also spread the swimmers out making making it more difficult for the spotters. Our basic rules are everyone swims off one side of the boat (always on the ladder side), don't stray too far from the stern quarter, and they either wear a life jacket (younger kids) or use a swim noodle (teenagers and up with swimming skills). I have about a ten of these noodle aboard (the larger, solid kind) and my wife, who's not a swimmer herself, is rather adamant that everyone going over the side must have some sort of flotation device.

Not to rain on your parade, but reinforcing the pulpit, rigging/de-rigging/storing a pulpit mounted swim platform, having wet kids navigate forward to climb onto a two foot high platform with no real handholds on a potentially heaving deck to jump hopefully away from the anchor rode, seems to be adding unnecessary complications.

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Response Posted - 04/01/2011 : 08:13:46

... Or you can get one of these, put it away when you don't need it, hook it over the lifelines and onto the foredeck when you do, and move all teh swimmers to the foredeck and out of the cockpit.

http://www.pridemarine.com/index.cfm?category=10221|11160&product=8021628&code=025282029143

If you do go for a ladder up front, here is a pretty decent guideline of what to look for...

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/01/2011 : 08:27:45

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Prospector
 ... Or you can get one of these, put it away when you don't need it, hook it over the lifelines...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I don't know if it would be wise to hook a ladder onto the lifelines?

My first boat came to me without a fixed boarding ladder, only the hook kind as in your illustration. That's not something I'd ever go back to or use.

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 04/01/2011 : 10:20:29

That model has a high clearance - 5" specifically to clear lifelines or ralings.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/01/2011 : 10:54:29

I think by 5" they mean the hooks are 5" off the deck to give someone a handhold as they come up the ladder. I don't think its to clear lifelines, which are a bit higher than 5"?

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