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[tsubaki]

Daddy showed up with a ladder off a boat I had owned in 1978, so I put it to good use.

[tsubaki]

Found some stainless oar locks, cut them off and mounted them upside down for the brackets.

[macojoe]

Looks like a strong ladder!! Good work!

But let me ask one thing, I do not see any sign of 5200 or 4200 under that bracket??

You have to put some on all screwes or water will just suck into the wood there!
and make sure you counter sink the hole a little so the glass doesn';t crack around it. Just use a drill 2 sizes bigger and touck the gel coat with it to make it flare you will be fine.

[tsubaki]

I looked at that, there's only glass there so I put fender washers under the cap.

[bradford]

Sweet ladder tsubaki, what kind of boat did it come of of?

[tsubaki]

It was some kind of 16' semi-v hull that had an old 40hp Evinrude on it and the tank mounted in the front bow, a lot like a cuddy. Come to think of it I still got the gas tank, a square 12-18 gallon aluminum one!
Wish I had removed the flanges that I had to make to reuse the ladder.

[reelapeelin]

I like that ladder!!... looks sturdy as all get-out ;) ... fender-washers'll probably do, but I's gonna suggest a pretty substantial backin'-plate under those mounts ... your cap's just like mine and I know there ain't much there ;) ... keep an eye on 'em and if cracking starts showin' around those mounts, ya might wanna go beefier than those washers 8) ...



Is the weight of the ladder the only thing holds it in place?...w/someones weight on it, No worries, but I can see some rockin' and rollin' action possibly causein' that puppy to jump off the mounts ... any way to thru-pin it or put a saftey strap ... hate to see such a nice ladder lost to deep water :o ...

[tsubaki]

When I first got it almost 30 vears ago, the first thing daddy said is to tie a rope to it the second you use it.
The same still applies, a lanyard will be attached to it in order to go to the cleat.
This is the only one I've ever seen like it, may be good reason. It will be easy to lose it, this is probably why they weren't mass produced.

[tsubaki]

Got most of the electronics wired but figured I’d show you the gas gauge set up with two tanks and one gauge.
Needed one pull switch that had basically an off, on, on (left & right tanks).

A regular 3 terminal navigation switch won’t work. This 4 terminal did fine.
Don’t depend on the schematic being correct, in my case the bow lights and battery were reversed.

The gauge had terminals for “S” sending unit, “G” ground and “I” ignition or hot and a wire to the dash light bulb.

The “I” terminal is fed from the hot feeding the navigation lights switch.
The “G” terminal goes to the fuse panel ground and the two sending units frame ground.
The “S” terminal goes to the three position switch to the common or in this case labeled “battery”.
The other two terminals on the switch go to the sending units in this case “running lights” for the left tank and “anchor lights“ for the right tank.
The remaining terminal “bow lights” is vacant.
I connected the gauge bulb to the dash light switch but I didn’t connect the navigation lights in the traditional sense by the first position being anchor and the second position being all. What I did was the first position would be all exterior navigation lights and the second position would include the dash lights. This way if the dash lights caused night blindness I could simply exclude them at night. I have a bad habit running at night without lights on so as to be able to see the water.

[bradford]

Purty cool there tsubaki, how close ya getting to splashing her? We might have to meet up at beach hammock and have a shindig! ;D ;D