I need some advice. I am building a 50' steel RPH trawler (full width salon, no side decks) here in Turkey and will store the tender on the boat deck above the salon.
I have a choice to buy either a 14' all fiberglass tender (like a boston whaler) that weighs about 180 kgs empty or a Walker Bay hard bottom inflatable, about 12 feet long, that weighs empty about 80 kgs. The winch and boom can support about 300 kgs. I believe that the boat will have to be lowered about 15 feet from the boat deck into the water. The question is how to I load and or offload the tender without banging the side of the trawler. Does someone have a fool proof way of doing this? And, while the fiberglass tender appears to be the better choice for indestructibility, am I messing up here by not picking the hard bottom inflatable? Or, is their a third choice? I need to make this decision real soon as Turkey just lowered the 2 "sales taxes" on tenders from 15% and 18% to 1% total, to end at the end of November. yes, I know, 15% and 18% tax ...... wow.... Guidance, Suggestions, advice... Thanks Lee Turkey _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
