Re: [Paddlewise] Kayak entry system for sailboat

From: Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:55:12
At 08:37 PM 7/21/00 -0400, Sailboat Restorations, Inc. wrote:

>For a properly designed motorboat, yes, a swim platform is fine, and Wes's
>idea is pretty cool, but perhaps a bit too fanciful (as I think he meant
>it).  In reality, a nice platform can work just fine without any
>modification.  A motorboat without a platform, or a sailboat, to my
>thinking, just means using caution and entering exiting from the swim
>ladder.  Maybe some sort of float can be rigged to add to the picture.  In

Well, I was also sort of thinking about mothership type operations. (An
aside -- I only see WaveLength on line, and it sure seems like they've
embraced that concept with wide open arms.) Anyway, I was thinking about
relativly inexperienced tour types might have a real handful
entering/leaving a kayak from the high sides of a larger mothership, and
trying to figure some way around it. Actually, in that environment, it
seems kind of like a cool idea.

Ahhhh, let's be honest. I was also dreaming about what would have happened
if I'd hit that quarter billion dollar lotto a couple months ago . . . got
one number one week, though.

-- Wes 

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