[C36IA] Lifting dingy on foredeck

[Walter Conner]

Thanks for all your help, Chic. This method definitely works great.

Now that I understand this a little better, I'd also want to try out Paul
Jay Walchenbach's method where you lift the dingy vertically using the bow
painter. When I initially tried this I had attached the snap shackle of the
lifting line directly to the bow eye, which is fairly deep under my boat and
difficult to unsnap when the boat is in the water (plus we've got very cold
water here in Puget Sound).

Reading Paul's email again, I think I can just tie a figure eight know about
two feet up on the bow painter and attach the shackle to that. The advantage
is there is less drag on the dingy coming up out of the water (it doesn't
rub against the boat as much) and it may be easier to place the boat on the
foredeck since you're just lowering the pointed ends first to the deck and
can position the dingy fairly easily that way. Disadvantage is it would be
tough to do on a windy day with the dingy that far up in the air... (world's
most expensive kite).

I'll definitely use the three-point method, but would like to experiment
with Paul's method when I get a low wind day. Both methods are a world of
difference over that way I was doing it....my spinnaker line just seems to
have a lot of friction by the time its lead all the way back to the cockpit.
By going from an overhead block hung on the spinnaker halyard directly to
the anchor windlass, it's now almost effortless to raise the dingy. I have a
much happier wife. Once I figure out the definitive way, I'll take some
pictures and post on the web.

Thanks to everyone for their help.


Walter Conner
S/V Endless Summer 
C36 #1314
Seattle, WA

 


On 6/1/09 4:18 AM, "chic Lasser" <classer1 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> walter  since this was my technigue I will suggest you do what I do when
> liftng the dink out of the water.  On our dink I remove the engine and all
> the assundry stuff off the transom hook the harness up (bow and two aft) and
> walk the dink along the side of the boat hand over hand,  at the point where
> lifting I attach lifting lne stand on seat and hop over the rail.  While
> doing this my wife holds the dink using the lifting harness,  once on deck I
> follow procedure I outlined last week and viola its up.   Chic
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter Conner" <walterconner at comcast.net>
> To: "Catalina 36 Association Mailing List" <c36list at c36ia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [C36IA] Lifting dingy on foredeck
> 
> 
>> I tried it today using just a single block hung about 15 ft off the deck on
>> the spinnaker halyard, with one end going to the dingy and the other to
>> the
>> windlass. Worked like a charm.
>> 
>> I did used a three-point harness on the dingy (the painter eye on our
>> dingy
>> is fairly far under water and it's hard to unsnap a snap shackle when the
>> boat is in the water.) Only issue was keeping the dingy away from the hull
>> as it was lifted.
>> 
>> 
>> On 5/31/09 12:11 PM, "grifftoe at frontier.net" <grifftoe at frontier.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hola, especially for those of us who don't have engineering degrees
>>> I've attached a picture of a 2:1 lifting rig, I hope this helps
>>> illustrate my earlier explanation:
>>> 
>>> John Griffiths
>>>   SV Pegasus C36 #1353
>>> lying San Carlos, Sonora
>>> tel (Mexico) 622-112-2619
>>> http://www.frontier.net/~grifftoe
>>> -
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>>> 
>>> grifftoe at frontier.net wrote:
>>>> The 2:1 tackle takes two snatch blocks and a 70' (or longer) length
>>>> of  lifting line...
>>> 
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