Silly Ladder Question

[rpasca02]

Ok, very new to macgregor ownership (been sailing for 10 years). I found this ladder in the stuff I purchased with my 26X. Is this right? Where do I put this thing? Is it a pool ladder? Standard equipment? Seems like a nice option to hop on the boat with this but is it stable and am I going to damage anything? I put it in the area between the windows as that seemed most solid. Haven't put my 180 pounds of weight on it yet though.

[Russ]

It's cute. I have one like it I bought for my old boat. Not sure what to do with something like that. Mine looks like it would hold my dog but that's about it.

Sorry, no help here. I have a ladder off the transom that works well. Frankly, I've never seen these "off the self" ladders to be worth anything.

[Divecoz]

Typical Boarding ladder for a runabout.. Few if any work on our boats.. too much freeboard and then deck is angled too much as well.. You dont want to enter your boat cockpit IMHO....by first climbing onto the deck..
I've had two of them.. they worked for getting back into the boat after skiing, on a StarCraft American and My SeaRay...

[captronr]

Looks to me like a solution in search of a problem.

I would not want to climb that thing, then go over the lifelines.

Simple to disconnect the port lifeline behind the winches, and step from the dock onto the boat and vice versa.

I would get hung up in lines and fall for sure trying to climb aboard the way it's shown in your pic.

Ron

[Wind Chime]

We have a similar one that we sometimes use for boarding the tender from the side, if we aren't using the stern walkthrough.
For boarding from the dock, we have a shorter stainless steel ladder that is attached to the genoa track, as well as a little step stool.

[Divecoz]

Perfect PIcture ... You can now see how long that ladder would have to be to be used to enter the boat from being in the water.

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We have a similar one that we sometimes use for boarding the tender from the side, if we aren't using the stern walkthrough.
For boarding from the dock, we have a shorter stainless steel ladder that is attached to the genoa track, as well as a little step stool.

[DaveB]

A 4 step ladder like this has been used to get off the boat when bow to the beach in a MacX. There is two fastners on deck you screw on to connect the ladder.
I perfer to anchor stearn to beach and not get wet when in very cold waters (76 degrees or less, my stearn is sitting on sand) . But there are times to just go bow in on the beach.( thats when you are 4 sheets to the wind and can't figuare scope, wind and tide direction, thats what the stink pots do)
For going in the water on a hook the Mac. Ladder works fine.
This type of ladder also will work for launching and retriveing boat in a non dock launch.
Finding a place on board will cause a headace, but only use it when you need it but carry it in you pickup.
Dave

Perfect PIcture ... You can now see how long that ladder would have to be to be used to enter the boat from being in the water.

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We have a similar one that we sometimes use for boarding the tender from the side, if we aren't using the stern walkthrough.
For boarding from the dock, we have a shorter stainless steel ladder that is attached to the genoa track, as well as a little step stool.

[bscott]

We have a similar one that we sometimes use for boarding the tender from the side, if we aren't using the stern walkthrough.
For boarding from the dock, we have a shorter stainless steel ladder that is attached to the genoa track, as well as a little step stool.

This looks like the same WM ladder we use--I modified one leg (shorter) to match the the combing angle and use 2 large fenders to keep the ladder from hitting the dock.

Bob

[Chapontheriver]

Although I am very new to the MacGregor also (got my 26X 2 months ago) the transom ladder was the one thing about this boat that I didn't like. As a result I started looking for a better ladder solution right away. I think I may have found it. I found this ladder that is 70" long when open yet folds in half for stowing. Also, it has a weight limit of 250lbs (important for me!). It comes with slide in mounts plus extra mounts can be purchased. I have not mounted it or tried it yet so this is all based on assumptions but I think it is going to work out nicely. I plan on placing the mounts similar to how Wind Chime's ladder is placed. Here is the link: http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?pat ... 1&id=35328

[Mac26Mpaul]

We use one of them all the time when we nose up to beaches and especially when at ramps that dont have a pontoon/jetty when it becomes VERY handy, and essential for some,,, like my wife.

This is not us, but ours is the same, bought from Kmart, but has three steps as per WindChimes.
http://www.macgregorsailors.com/modt/in ... ?view=1003

It is flimsy, but has been handling my 95kg weight no problems for a year or so now. We store it in the toilet on our M. You dont need to bolt it to anything on the bow. It just sits there quite well enough.
We see it as an essential piece of kit,, mostly for the boarding from ramps with no pontoons which we have thousands of here in Australia.

[Catigale]

We use the west marine model to climb into our tender over the cockpit gunwhale

I dont think it's possible to climb from the water onto the Mac with this ladder unless you are an Olympic gymnast.

Caitlin has managed to do it but I certainly failed.

[robbarnes1965]

This is the best product I have seen for the Mac. I Tried it at the Annapolis boat show this month and it held up well to my 185lbs with minor bending. Definitely stiff enough for boarding and one of the more compact ladders I've seen.

http://www.up-n-out.com/