4E: Dinghy, Davit & Outboard
4E1: Davit
This boat uses the trawler mast and boom with two electric winches as a davit to launch
and retrieve the tender.
Checking for Water in the Dinghy
When the dinghy is on its rests on the aft flybridge deck, the storage position allows
water to collect in the bow of the boat, and the bilge pump does not evacuate it because it is
forward, not aft.
You may need to drain this water using this procedure:
While hoisting the dinghy as in step (4) below, lift for a moment with only the bow
sling cable attached, so the dinghy tips aft, either draining the water by the
electric bilge pump or by removing the dinghy’s aft drain plug.
Launching the Dinghy
Never hoist or lower the dinghy with
anyone in it! To do so overloads the
davit and could cause injury or death.
The davit runs on DC. It’s a good idea to
have the generator or an engine running to
avoid depleting the batteries.
1)
Remove dinghy canvas and straps, if
any;
2)
Be sure the davit main switch under
the aft saloon settee is “On” (1.12);
3)
Attach the electric remote controls
(stowed in the compartment on the
flybridge console to port of the helm)
to the connector in the base of the
davit; if the davit boom is not
extended, the davit cable is
raised
(“in”) and the boom extends itself until
the lock “clicks” into place in the
extended boom.]
4)
Using the up-down control, attach the
hoist line to the tender’s bridle;
5)
With a crew member in place on the
lower deck to receive the dinghy’s painter to control it after it clears the flybridge,
raise the dinghy, swing it to the port side of Hele Mai and lower it to the water.
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Raising/lowering the hoist hook raises and lowers the dinghy.
6)
Remove the line from the dinghy and
secure the boom so it does not swing
while the dinghy is not holding it in place.
The dinghy winch and control electric cable socket (arrow).
The locking pin holds the boom in its extended position.
Section 4E: Dinghy, Davit & Outboard 4.5