Back to the topic at hand, namely "
Looking for easy Mac boarding in campground," just as a followup to
my earlier posting about my non-standard swim ladder mounted to port of the port rudder, it now sounds to me like some of you might rather have some sort of step ladder leading up to the transom in mind.
As it happens, I also have a similar sort of 3-step step ladder to K9kampers'
shown here, but without that sort of flip-out paint stand platform bit. Mine's steps are all aluminum alloy, and so far it has been rugged enough to stand firm under my prodigious ribs-and-corn-fed girth without the shrieks of metal fatigue alarming nearby woodland creatures. It's a great little unit that I use to hop up over the side into my "Foundling" Com-Pac 16. I cannot now remember where I got it last year as an impulse buy for some mindnumbingly low final ultra-super-markdown-before-we-throw-it-into-the-dumpster price like $9...It could have been Lowes, Home Depot, Costco or even Walmart. I weirdly cannot now recall at all
where I got it. I would love to show you an online picture of it, but cannot. Even though I know the name of the manufacturer ("Cosco," but not "Cos
tco") and even scribbled down its model number, I can find
no reference whatsoever to it
anywhere on line. This is actually quite mysterious...It is as if I somehow got the last one in the Galaxy, after which
all knowledge of its very existence was purged and expunged from the world mind: no web references...no reviews...no manufacturer blurbs...no ANSI certification notices...no recalls...nothing... It's almost as if that model never existed.
Wɛird, Huh?...
Still, even though mine, like K9kampers', has a topmost cross-brace handhold part that slides nicely over my tow beast Durango's rear passenger seat headrest for nice and secure transport--almost like it was made for it--that handhold part is probably exactly
NOT the feature you might be looking for in a transom entry step ladder, as opposed to over the side. No, you and the kids might prefer something you won't have to step or trip over, like this 3-step one, which you can
pick up at an Ace Hardware for about $40...a nice solid-looking bit of gear that one could also use around the home off-season.
Of course, there are lots of fancier-schmancier items out there, even color-coordinated to your 26X, but you'll usually have to talk to some guy named Fong in Shanghai to get one:
I think the coolest of all, and potentially the most practical at a campsite, where good comfy chairs are always at a premium, might be some sort of folding aluminum tube version of Ben Franklin's famous combination chair-and-step-stool library chair things. Maybe "Boat" can weld us each up a few once he gets the hang of that new welder? Whattaya say, Boat? There are
plenty of DIY guides for the wooden ones on YouTube. Get the gist from there and go to town
!:
Anyhow, happy hunting
!
...
They make their own workout equipment every so often. 
