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Ken Ferrari
Our boat, HuskaBean, is currently on-the-hard in La Linea di Concepcion, Spain (aka, the Gibraltar peninsula) and we're stuck in Chicago. We hoping to FINALLY resume our cruising lifestyle in early May after having been kept away due to COVID. Aside from a 3-week whirlwind trip last November where a friend helped me move the boat out of Portugal to escape the VAT import tax (the boat was only in the water for 9 days that trip), it will be nearly 3 entire years since we left the boat in Europe to visit family in the US. We sailed across the Atlantic and immediately hauled the boat for "a few short months", and the boat has been drying out ever since. Luckily, aside from a fried battery bank and some severely oxidized gelcoat, the boat has survived pretty well. We're thinking that we'll paint the boat in Turkey. Anyway...
Since we're planning to cruise the Mediterranean for a few years, we've decided to install a passerelle/gangway instead of relying upon a wooden plank. Med mooring is the name of the game, and we need to be able to easily get off of the boat when tied to a dock. The trouble has been designing a passerelle/gangway installation that works with our Monitor windvane. The transom isn't that wide on the Morgan 38, and the windvane takes up a lot of real estate. In the chaos of my November trip, I COMPLETELY forgot to take any detailed measurements of the transom for planning purposes. As a result, I've been stuck trying to infer measurements from various photos I have of the boat. Lots of people remove their Monitor when they get to the Med, but we LOVE ours and use it all of the time.
I have a mounting bracket and gangway selected, but I just don't know if they will fit. I can have the gangway width modified, but I'd prefer not to make it narrower. Would someone be will to take some measurements of their transom for me? What I really need is the measurement between the two backstay chainplates. But, I'd also appreciate total transom width and height.
If you also have a Monitor installed, would you include the measurements between the upper mounting tubes and the chainplates (assuming your upper tubes are mounted on the transom instead of the caprail)?
Thanks in advance if you can help!
Since we're planning to cruise the Mediterranean for a few years, we've decided to install a passerelle/gangway instead of relying upon a wooden plank. Med mooring is the name of the game, and we need to be able to easily get off of the boat when tied to a dock. The trouble has been designing a passerelle/gangway installation that works with our Monitor windvane. The transom isn't that wide on the Morgan 38, and the windvane takes up a lot of real estate. In the chaos of my November trip, I COMPLETELY forgot to take any detailed measurements of the transom for planning purposes. As a result, I've been stuck trying to infer measurements from various photos I have of the boat. Lots of people remove their Monitor when they get to the Med, but we LOVE ours and use it all of the time.
I have a mounting bracket and gangway selected, but I just don't know if they will fit. I can have the gangway width modified, but I'd prefer not to make it narrower. Would someone be will to take some measurements of their transom for me? What I really need is the measurement between the two backstay chainplates. But, I'd also appreciate total transom width and height.
If you also have a Monitor installed, would you include the measurements between the upper mounting tubes and the chainplates (assuming your upper tubes are mounted on the transom instead of the caprail)?
Thanks in advance if you can help!
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