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Old 26 November 2019, 20:27   #1
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Climbing back onboard

Hi all,

Recently bought a Naiad 4.8
(first Rib and first boat )

I'm just wondering what people are using for swim ladders, it'll get alot of use so needs to be sturdy. Transom mount looks like the best option but space back there is a little limited, auxiliary motor bracket on the left and fuel lines and filter on the right. What are you all using.

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Old 26 November 2019, 20:52   #2
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I purchased a generic normal width folding ladder then narrowed it down to just the width of a foot in a boot.

Centre rungs just needed cutting down and re-riveting, the top and bottom I cut the middle out of and welded them back together.

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Old 26 November 2019, 21:27   #3
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instead of hanging more stuff of the back of your boat why not stand on the cav plate and hop up from there
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Old 26 November 2019, 21:40   #4
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Who needs a ladder

https://youtu.be/NPL1kjbJ35o
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Old 27 November 2019, 19:49   #5
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Got to admire Nashers ingenuity.

On a 4.8m the transom space will be tight, especially with an auxilliary. Breezeblock's suggestion of using the engine cavitation plate to stand on works a treat.

I used to have a Zodiac boat ladder with aluminium/alloy tread plates on a webbing strap. Used it a handful of times before selling it.
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Old 27 November 2019, 22:22   #6
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I have a swim platform with a fold out stainless ladder that bolts to the transom that I don't need but I think is about a foot wide so would probably be to wide for you
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Old 28 November 2019, 11:50   #7
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about as narrow as they get

https://www.marinescene.co.uk/view/1...oarding-ladder
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Old 28 November 2019, 13:24   #8
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Are you wearing fins ( flippers ) if so you can soon learne to swim in over the side. One of the dive boats I drive has no ladder and we carry up to 12 divers per trip, all of which swim up over the side of a 7.7m gemini. The second boat we run is a naiad and though this is a bigger vessel with a ladder it's still pretty easy to swim up over the sides.
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Old 28 November 2019, 13:58   #9
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Are you wearing fins ( flippers ) if so you can soon learne to swim in over the side. One of the dive boats I drive has no ladder and we carry up to 12 divers per trip, all of which swim up over the side of a 7.7m gemini. The second boat we run is a naiad and though this is a bigger vessel with a ladder it's still pretty easy to swim up over the sides.
That'll be the sharks.

If I lived over there I'd have perfected swimming with just my finger tips and toes touching the surface.
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Old 28 November 2019, 14:25   #10
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Get the people on board to sit on the tube you plan to enter over, the additional weight lowers the tube and makes it easier whichever method you go for.
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Old 28 November 2019, 15:27   #11
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These Borika ladders work on the tubes or the transom

https://boatworld.co.uk/boats/fasten...uminium-ladder
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