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We have a 13' Whaler with a 250 lb engine and I agree 100%. Total package is probably 850-900 lbs by the time you add in Fuel, battery, anchor and 'stuff'. In calm water it's a struggle wrestling with a manual boom swivel with wife and myself. A fully powered davit would be a godsent. I priced a 1000lb fully powered Marquip. $21,000. Ouch!
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02-21-2020 02:57 PM #21Senior Member
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Pascal
Miami, FL
1970 53 MY #325 Cummins 6CTAs
2014 26' gaff rigged sloop
2007 Sandbarhopper 13
12' Westphal Cat boat
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Randy Register - Kingston, TN
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aka Freebird aka Sparky1
1965 41DC #93
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02-21-2020 05:22 PM #25Senior Member
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This is why I got an inflatable. After reading and watching videos of tender launches. My davit is very simple, just a winch on stainless steel boom that slips onto the stove pipe. The PO did have a Boston Whaler on it before, but probably the smaller one. My 11' inflatable with 9.9 HP motor, gas etc, is about 350 lb, and I am able to launch it easily by myself. I'll post pictures of it if interested. You can have a machine shop make the boom for probably a few hundred dollars. The winch was $400 (I just replaced the original one because I wanted a move vertical style and faster).
Prometheus
1978 53' MY Hull #529
Viera, FL
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02-21-2020 06:11 PM #26Senior Member
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This my rig.The line on the top of the Davit is needed to torque the beast around to the cradle. That said, love the utility, stability and safety of the classic Boston Whaler. Scoots along at 37 mph which is fun on nice days.
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02-21-2020 06:46 PM #27Senior Member
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A year ago we bought a used MarQuipt full powered davit from the For Sale section of this forum. It was a takeoff from a Viking sportfisher and had been rebuilt by MarQuipt a couple of years previously. We needed to replace our standpipe with one with a larger OD and thicker wall. When all was said and done we were into it for under 15k installed. No matter what the price, it was perhaps the best improvement we have made.
Michael & Beth
Hull Number CV312
63’ Cockpit Motor Yacht
1986 model launched in August 1987