Gin Poles

I haven't seen one rigged with a mast/boom on top, although several owners (check Dr. Bob's album) have put davits on their C-Dory to help lift a kicker motor or dinghy.

As a side note - interesting that the boat in that link is running on a 60 hp motor on the swim platform. I sure like that Armstrong bracket on the back of the TomCats... hmmmmmmm.

Best wishes,
Jim
 
Toyman -- That ought to get the dinghy on top but also, it would put the C-Dory on top of itself!

I am one of the ones with a Grahauer davit and love it. I mount it in the aft starboard corner of the cockpit for putting a 6hp Merc 4 stroke on the dinghy without dropping it overboard and on the side of the radar arch for putting the dinghy on the roof with the drain plug out. I don't flip the dinghy unless I expect heavy seas or heavy rain where I worry about it holding water and becoming too much weight aloft.
 
We have the Garhauer Davit mounted both in the aft cockpit for dinghy motors and the generator. We also have a cabin side mount so it can be used to put the dinghy onto the roof. I haven't gotten photos of that yet. The top of the davit is braced on the lip of the cabin, and the bottom fits into a flush mount fishing rod holder (so it has dual use--as an outrigger for the fishing rod, and the davit.

I gin pole is a much different arrangement--and I have used those in putting up a 60 foot ham radio tower and in raising and lowering a 40 foot sailboat mast.

I don't see much advantage of a mast on the roof of a C Dory. When ever you put a mast which takes any load, there is downward or compression load on the cabin deck. In a sailboat, or trawler, this compression load is taken on a bulkhead or compression post--there is no such place to put a this compression load on a C Dory--you could laminate a beam under the roof of the c Dory (laminated beam could be made ).

A riding or steadying sail, would not be perticularly effective on a C Dory--much better is a flopper stopped at anchor. These work very well. Magna makes a very nice flopper stopper. This will require a pole from the boat--but it can be suspended from the cabin top--not a mast.
 
A flopper stopper is good for the roll at anchor, but will it keep the boat from "sailing" at anchor? (I've never used one.) How 'bout a small anchor off the stern (not in Florida's sea grass, btw :shock: ) to slow the movement? We used to use a bridle on the tri to keep it off center at anchor - that really cut down on the sailing at anchor.

Dave, ol' buddy, you have mentioned a time or twelve "next year when we sell Fan-C-Dory"... thinking about a trawler? That would be one way to get that mast on top. :wink:

Best wishes,
Jim
 
Early on in my C-Dory rebuild planning I looked into putting a gin pole on the cabin roof. I still like the concept of its potential use, but I quickly understood that the engineering and construction required to mount one on the roof would have been bulky, functionally clunky and way over my head in knowledge and experience. I reluctantly dropped the idea, but am planning on a lazarette-area mounted davit for crab pots, small engines, batteries, etc...

Hope you find something that works for you.

Tom
 
toyman":1wmk2zi6 said:
Has anyone rigged a C-Dory with a mast/boom arrangement such as the one shown in the 4th photo on the following page.
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Not a mast/sail, but more substantial than the Garhauer is the davit that Les Lampman at EQ designed and had built for me.

LoriAnn_davit.thumb.jpg

Warren
 
I have used the true flopper stopper (metal plates on hinges, not the "mexican hats--which don't work well) many hundreds of nights. They will decrease sailing, but not stop it. On the other hand, I tried a number of different combinations of rodes and anchors off the bow in the C Dory 25--with not perticullarily good results as the wind pips up. The riding sail might help--but a true riding sail, is way aft--not in the middle of a boat. You could make a "V" riding sail, with the poit forward, like a wind vane, and that is more effective than a flat sail. But if the wind is really blowing, you don't want any sail.
 
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