Dinghy Davit

I agree. I researched this thread before I designed my own dinghy davit system. I posted lots of pics of it on my blog, so I won't waste time re-posting here, but if you need any fabrication work done to make a set, let me know.

Dale
 
What kind of Davit ?
I just bought a 2008 310 Sundancer which will be deliver to me next week ,and I wanted to know if the Hurly h20 davit will fit in my boat ? And any other advice concerning this boat will be appreciated​
 
I've had a few requests for some dimensions of the davits I made. I decided to attach the drawings here. I made these drawings and then brought them to my local fabricator. If you choose to use them, use them at your own risk.

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Does anyone have a copy of the Dom's Dinghy Davit drawings that they could share with me? Dom hasn't been on this site for a while and I'm having no luck contacting him. I just bought a dink and would like to take a crack at making my own davits.
Thanks...
 
I searched his posts but not his name.
Rest In Peace Dominic - You are are still inspiring others
 
He sure is. Tim I don't recall seeing the davit plans in his documents that Linda gave me with the boat, but I'll look again after the holidays.
 
RIP Dom.

I'm in the process of building my own set of Dom's Dinghy Davits. Masterfab is making the hinges with extensions. I'm mounting a Baltik 8.5 on the back of my 44DB. Wondering what the optimal length for the bunks might be. Dom's look to be about 3' or so. My dinghy is about 5' wide. I'm using 1" starboard, so it will be pretty sturdy. I was thinking that about 3.5' to 4' would be good and stable. Any thoughts?

Can others post pictures of their designs and any improvements they may have made?

Scott
 
Scott,

Dom's original davit arms were 32". I made mine 36". My Walker Bay RIB is 62" wide and weighs about 200# with the outboard and fuel tank. I made the mounts that I welded to the plates that slip into the weaver davits 10" long to give me extra room to walk between the dink and the transom. There was 9" there. Dom's mounts were 5" long.
I had them on our 360 for 4 years. Swim platform height on the 360 was 17" off the water. When I bought the 400, I cut the mounts off the plates and made up a raised and extended pair of brackets and added a second set of weaver davits because of the weight being up and back. I welded the same mounts to the top of the brackets. The 400 is stern heavy and has the much lower platform than yours, (it is only 6" off the water) if forced to come off plane in a hurry for some reason, the wake rolls a foot over the top of the platform, so I had to get the dink up above. After 4 years on the 360 and 1 year on the 400, the system has had no problems.
Here's a few pics, hope it helps, good luck.


On the 360
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Drill over size and wet out with epoxy, then fill with thickened epoxy and then drill smaller correct size holes centered through epoxy
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Keep in mind being able to move quickly between transom and dink, and room to get locker door open
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Thanks mark. Interesting Davits you engineered. Dom would be proud. I'll keep my bunks around 36". I'll post some pics when I get them ready.
 
Here you can see the size of my bunks on the bottom of my inflatable. I have a Raider 10' RIB.



The length of the bunk has more to do with the height of your platform off the water than the hull of the dink itself. As long as your bunks reach the surface of the water then you are all set.

 
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I couldn't resist....with our past history here of posts about certain animal on boats...
This is an actual post in todays AGLCA's Daily Digest.
I guess seriously though, if someone is looking for some St Croix parts, this could be a good find.

[h=4]Reply: Davit for sale[/h]
By: jetstream on April 12th, 2015, 10:44 am
Anyone need a St. Croix heavy duty lift davit? It is 1/2 a set. The other 1/2 was lost at sea. The pair cost in the neighborhood of $2000. I am selling the single davit for $200. complete with mounting hardware. Great for lifting large animals onto the boat. Call for details and pictures. 775 351-6683
 
Mark,

How do you pull the dink up so high? I have a low swim platform on my 300 and have built a set of davits to raise the raft up high enough to ride safely. Everything works well with my setup but it is hard to pull the raft up and mine isn't as high as yours.
 
Mark,

How do you pull the dink up so high? I have a low swim platform on my 300 and have built a set of davits to raise the raft up high enough to ride safely. Everything works well with my setup but it is hard to pull the raft up and mine isn't as high as yours.

I have block and tackle that I clip to a loop on the back of the bridge overhang. I can load the dink by myself if I have to, but it's easier if the admiral helps.
 
Has anyone used the Harbormarine Dinghy sling davit system. Kind of looks like a cargo net? I bought mine over the winter and never had a chance to try it until now. For the life of me I can't pull up the dingy on to the swim platform. Is there a trick? If this system wasn't the best choice, is anyone using the traditional Weaver Dinghy davits. The swim platform is very high on my 340 Sundancer and was wondering if these might be a better option.
Thanks,
Mark
 
Has anyone used the Harbormarine Dinghy sling davit system. Kind of looks like a cargo net? I bought mine over the winter and never had a chance to try it until now. For the life of me I can't pull up the dingy on to the swim platform. Is there a trick? If this system wasn't the best choice, is anyone using the traditional Weaver Dinghy davits. The swim platform is very high on my 340 Sundancer and was wondering if these might be a better option. Thanks, Mark

Don't know anything about the Harbormarine system, we have Nautley davits and having issues pulling our dinghy back on nowadays so we are in the midst of installing a pulley system. Had hoped to finish it off last week-end but we didn't get the time, will be about 3-4 weeks away now as we are going away shortly. The link I detailed it in is here: http://clubsearay.com/showthread.php/73373-Finally-succumbed-to-a-dinghy-pulley-) which may be of interest to you because the 340 SP, as you state, is pretty high off the water and this helps a bunch.
 
Hey Britlady,
Thanks for responding. I remember reading that post. I appreciate the info. I spoke to the owner of the sling system and he gave me some pointers on how to (try) to make it work. I'll leave an update later.
 
Thanks to everyone who has posted on this and the other threads regarding DIY davits. Based on everything that has been posted, it was easy to make up my own set!



 

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