Safety ladder?

[NickF]

Hmm, lots of good points there. Perhaps I'll keep my new rope ladder for the back garden!

 

Thanks folks.

 

 

If it were me I would try it out. Next time you are on a clean river like the Thames or Stratford Avon, hop over the side and have a go. Then you will know the best way to use it when you have an emergency.

[Dinz]

 

Seen one of these tied over the rail of a cruiser stern [top rung]

with a 'rip cord arrangement at waterline .

Once deployed easy to climb.

About £40 mind.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/FeelGoodUK-TELESCOPIC-FOLDABLE-EXTENDABLE-EXTENSION/dp/B01BKJKC7K/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1470473676&sr=8-7&keywords=telescopic+ladder

[frahkn]

And quite promising it looks too! Do the rungs float? (a bad thing); have you tested it? (a brave but sensible thing); did it work? (that would be a good thing).

No, I didn't test it, we were sharing locks on the Marsworth flight. Otherwise I didn't know the guy and judged that the relationship had not developed to the stage where I could ask to try his fixtures and fittings!

 

[Sea Dog]

No, I didn't test it, we were sharing locks on the Marsworth flight. Otherwise I didn't know the guy and judged that the relationship had not developed to the stage where I could ask to try his fixtures and fittings!

 

 

Hehe, fairy snuff! Next time though, eh? It won't be your first date then!

[frahkn]

Hehe, fairy snuff! Next time though, eh? It won't be your first date then!

Needed to clean my keyboard anyway - have a greenie.

[Nightwatch]

I suggest we all wear nylon stocking, with ladders in em, to climb up.

i do, at weekends.

[lockedout]

We have one of these:

 

https://www.miracleleisureproducts.co.uk/rescue-ladder.html

 

Pricey, but we needed a new plank anyway. I have tried to climb up the side of a big shiny, GRP hull in lumpy water while wearing full oilies using a rope ladder, I was younger and fitter but it was bloody nearly impossible!

[rustydiver]

I've got one off them on the roof great ladder but no good if I fall over board unless there is someone who is on the boat to put it in the water for me. And I'm sure it's too nig for the wife to reach it on the roof.

[David Mack]

We have one of these:

 

https://www.miracleleisureproducts.co.uk/rescue-ladder.html

 

The chap in the picture has dry clothes.

[Lysander]

We have one of these:

 

https://www.miracleleisureproducts.co.uk/rescue-ladder.html

 

Pricey, but we needed a new plank anyway. I have tried to climb up the side of a big shiny, GRP hull in lumpy water while wearing full oilies using a rope ladder, I was younger and fitter but it was bloody nearly impossible!

We have something similar but it folds. Like you, we needed a new gangplank anyway and since the other half had recently had a dunking in the marina it seemed a sensible idea. There is never going to be an occasion when the boat is being single-handed so deployment from water level is unnecessary. Lifebelt or throwline to the casualty, pull in to the boat and have them hanging on, then put ladder over the side.

No-one has gone overboard since we got it so it has not been used in anger!

Edited August 7, 2016 by Lysander

[Sea Dog]

The chap in the picture has dry clothes.

Shows how good it is, eh? Lucky he had it with him when he fell in too!

[rustydiver]

I've just ordered one off these to try.

http://www.piplers.co.uk/emergency-ladder-134cm

 

anybody on the G&S canal want to play in a few weeks time, jumping in the canal and trying it out, ill bring my drysuit with slightly leaking seals to sort off keep dry.

[Tam & Di]

We have something similar but it folds. Like you, we needed a new gangplank anyway and since the other half had recently had a dunking in the marina it seemed a sensible idea. There is never going to be an occasion when the boat is being single-handed so deployment from water level is unnecessary. Lifebelt or throwline to the casualty, pull in to the boat and have them hanging on, then put ladder over the side.

No-one has gone overboard since we got it so it has not been used in anger!

 

Certainly a light rigid ladder is the best thing to have - it is nigh on impossible for even a fit person to climb up one the floating wood&rope ones, and if you're fat rather than fit don't bother. We have a bit of an ali extension ladder from a skip which I fitted hooks on so it can hang anywhere along the boat.

 

I would not rely on the thought of there always being someone else on board - m.o.b. is far more likely to occur in a lock or when the boat is moored, and in the latter case there may not be anyone else around. I suppose that a drop-down ladder could be useful in those circumstances, as even if the m.o.b didn't have the strength to climb it they could possible hang on with their head above water.

 

Tam

[magnetman]

I carry a trampoline ladder I found in a skip. Not sure how good it is but as we also tow a small goat around it may not be required anyway. Its quite nicely designed with fairly wide steps.

 

Well I think its off a trampoline but it has 5 rungs and googling it doesn't find it so it might be something else

This is the most similar thing I can find.

 

And I found it in a skip

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http://www.tcschandlery.co.uk/mobile/plastimo-4-step-aluminium-boarding-ladder/p11072

Edited August 13, 2016 by magnetman

[Ray T]

I carry a trampoline ladder I found in a skip. Not sure how good it is but as we also tow a small goat around it may not be required anyway. Its quite nicely designed with fairly wide steps.

 

Well I think its off a trampoline but it has 5 rungs and googling it doesn't find it so it might be something else

This is the most similar thing I can find.

 

And I found it in a skip

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http://www.tcschandlery.co.uk/mobile/plastimo-4-step-aluminium-boarding-ladder/p11072

 

 

I shouldn't think the goat thinks much to that!

 

Reported to the RSPCA.

Edited August 13, 2016 by Ray T