Stern Boarding Ladder

[Ben Frothingham]

Hi Everyone, We are surviving Henri on Cape Cod – hope the rest of you are safe and sound. I’m looking for an original 424 stern boarding/swim ladder. Anyone have one for sale? Anyone have any great boarding ladder ideas that are long enough for comfortable use as a swim ladder?

[typhoontye]

Hello Ben,
Don’t have a spare boarding ladder, but I did a mod that made my existing boarding ladder work a bit better for us. I had new offsets (4 ea) made for the ladder attach points. That is, the brackets that bolt to the transom were made longer than standard so the ladder stands out from the transom a bit further, particularly at the bottom. This reduced the ‘hanging off the back trying to climb an inverse sloping wall’ feeling. My wife likes it a lot better.

Hopefully ya’ll survived the storm ok. When we cruised the East coast a couple of years ago we stayed on a mooring at a place just North of Woods Hole. We were thinking about that mooring field as the storm was approaching your area. Now we’re thinking of the developing action in the Gulf of Mexico…

David
Blue Moon (Ft Walton Be, FL)

[Ben Frothingham]

Thanks David – we survived without much damage as the storm went to the west of us and just west of Block Island. We got the remnants of Ida last night – New Bedford got 6 1/2 inches of rain – torrential! Unfortunately, our boat did not come with a boarding ladder so just using the clip on west marine type right now – definitely not the best.

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