Ladder For transom with short freeboard

[mcunn]

Hi all I've been racking my brain and patience trying to find a ladder for my 23 foot 88' Donzi Fish. As I am often alone in the boat it has to be a permanent ladder not a removable dive ladder or hook ladder.

Here are the problems I'm facing:

1. I have a very short transom 11.5 inches of space (12.5 if you count the boot stripe.

2. I cant do an over the transom mount because of 2 storage compartments that are located there that probably cant take the load on their lids.

3. My wife is pregnant and needs at least 2 steps below the water line.

Any Ideas?

Thanks!

Michael

[5150abf]

I have a fishing boat that I take my family out swimming on and in the summer it gets really hot and my buddy and I like to jump in but he lost his leg below the knee so he had a heck of a time getting up the motor so I rigged a ladder up.

It is one of the below deck telescopic ones and I just used the ladder part and pitched the rest.

I drilled 2 holes in it,one big one little then joined them to make a keyhole and put 2 large headed stainless screws in the deck, it goes on and off in seconds and now I have a ladder.

Takes a little engineering and I am not sure how it would tranfer to a glass boat, mine is aluminum with carpet, but it can be done.

You could install this as intended below the hull but you would have to cut a large hole, about 12x16 to get it in.

[tashasdaddy]

look at this one. http://www.iboats.com/Garelick_eez_I...-view_id.38656

[mcunn]

The Garelick on is the one I keep coming back to but even though it mounts in 7'' it still needs 15'' of space when stowed 17'' for the 3 rung.

[bowman316]

why can't you use the hook type?
where you just move the whole ladder?

I am using a rope ladder now, i has a plastic cleat you mount to the gunwhale, and the rope goes into this special cleat, and there is a step about a foot below the waterline. And you can fold it up and store it in a really small place.

this is what i have:

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/producte/10001/-1/10001/7485/377%20710%20839%201823/1822//Primary%20Search/mode%20matchallpartial/20/WMPrice|0?N=377%20710%20839%201823&Ne=1822&Ntt=&Nt k=Primary%20Search&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Nao= 20&Ns=WMPrice|0&keyword=stryup&isLTokenURL=true&st oreNum=5&subdeptNum=31&classNum=32

This has more steps than the one i have

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...31&classNum=32

[SuzukiChopper]

The Garelick on is the one I keep coming back to but even though it mounts in 7'' it still needs 15'' of space when stowed 17'' for the 3 rung.

Actually it looks like it folds up to stow so you'd have only about 7" down from the mount point. When folded out and in use, it's a full 15" for the 2 rung and 25" for the 3. It almost looks like the dimensions listed in the specs may have been mistyped. Why not call Garelick or iboats and ask?