Dinghy boarding from a C-22

[Foggy]

Boarding a skittish dinghy can be tricky, even for the nimble.

If you have the mindset to "do it anyway", thinking ladders, securing it to a cleat or
using fenders will safely facilitate your decision, guess again.

My suggestion for the stubborn is to practice*, a strange concept to some with self
assured high degrees of balance, dexterity, judgement, experience and ability to
recover from injuries despite their advanced age.

Aye.
Again, Dirty Harry's words, "Think you're lucky, punk?"

* In waist deep water from a dock, without assistance, with perhaps head
protection and your cell phone ready to speed dial 911, practice stepping into a
canoe or seating yourself in a kayak until your imagined abilities are confirmed.

[Hellsranger]

We have a 7' 6" inflatable dingy on Golden Heart, that is stowed on the cabin top while underway. We tie a 20' painter to the front handle on the dingy so we can just flop the dingy into the water right from the cabin top. Then we tie the dingy painter off on the stern cleat, leaving enough slack to easily turn the dingy parallel to the swim step from the swim step, stay low while entering dingy, then pull in painter slack till we can reach the cleat and untie and we're off...

[B~C]

I cobbled up a kayak stabilizer that attaches to a folding boarding ladder. Took a couple of lines that hooked onto the ladder on one end and a big fender on the other. I ran the lines inside of some PVC pipe so the fender stands off of the boat. It works great..I just stuck a pic in the B. C album

[KevinDU]

I'm 72 years old. I jump in!

[hardee]

Hey Ken, Is this the one. Hope I did this right.



Harvey
SleepyC