Looking for thoughts on fitting a folding duckboard to my Triton24. I've spent the last year doing a complete refit and repaint and have been thinking of adding the platform with my reasoning being that it would be easier to get onto a platform in an emergency than to use a boarding ladder. If I went overboard and was unconscious my wife might have a chance at rolling me onto a duckboard. That's assuming she wanted to. And before anyone asks yes I do where a harness. I cruise the Qld coast in my little Triton
Greenfrog??
In a seaway the statistics say the most dangerous place on a boat to retrieve a person is the stern.
Almost certain certain serious injury in a good seaway.
Best solution I have heard is stealing about 3 m of roadside safety barrier mesh
Strong enough to hook a halyard too i am told.
Just saying if it looks easy it is most likely wrong.
sorry
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In a seaway the statistics say the most dangerous place on a boat to retrieve a person is the stern.
Almost certain certain serious injury in a good seaway.
Best solution I have heard is stealing about 3 m of roadside safety barrier mesh
Strong enough to hook a halyard too i am told.
Just saying if it looks easy it is most likely wrong.
sorry
Maybe for the triton 24, I'd agree there is a high risk. But I don't necessarily agree that the transom is a death trap for all hullforms Lydia.
With the pinched arse and overhang of old, sure. You have to be careful on any retrieval, but with flat transoms., a much lower freeboard, fuller bow sections, ladders, and as you said a mesh barrier I'd argue it's a much better option than the old maxim allows. Especially if the person on board hasn't got the muscle or processes to skull drag someone over the beam.
If someone is out cold... man, that's the hardest retrieval you can be faced with. If I was knocked out and my not so sporty wife was the only person on board, I cant think of any way she could get me back on board. My solution here is to never be powered up fully and be clipped on at all times, ie: mitigate any possibility of going over in the first place.
If it was perfectly calm a duckboard might help, but in any half decent swell, you'd be better off getting a line under their arms at the beam and holding them up till they came to? With an iffy stern section, and if said wife knew how to sail, I'd put the boat beam on and try and haul someone in under the lifelines as the boat heeled.
Tough question!
SB
I was obliged to put a reboarding platform on the work boat as the freeboard is way to much to scale & the chance of a mob even in sheltered waters is high, I tie it up with a slip knot that can be reached from the water. I like the idea of using barrier mesh for a sling
