Do GG Schmitt's L5T... telescoping over-platform ladders with links hang at an angle?

dsb7

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Would anyone around here know whether GG Schmitt's telescoping ladders that mount over a platform and have folding links between the gudgeons and the ladder part (e.g., their L5T44501C-1 at (e.g., https://shopggschmitt.com/collectio...cket-mount-telescoping?variant=39278727200897) hang out at an angle or hang vertically?

The drawing at that page's "Product Drawing" link (https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0...nal_Layout_for_Web_Site_REVA.pdf?v=1672163544) seems to show that it hangs at an angle.

However, I can't see anything in either their technical drawing or their photographs that could hold the rails out at an angle (since the vertical rails hang from those links, rather than directly from the gudgeons (where, in some other ladders, tabs or half-collars near the pivot points hold the rails out at an angle).

The drawings and photos do show some kind of plate on the back of the rails near the top, but it's unclear how that might be part of a mechanism to hold the rails out at an angle. (Perhaps there's some hidden (at least from drawing-view and photo angles) mechanism?

(Their product description doesn't mention either being angle or hanging straight down.)

Thanks.
 

alldodge

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The ladder is installed so the uprights lead against the swim platform. The platform is what keeps it tilled out and doesn't just fold under
 

Scott Danforth

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Ladders are designed to hang at about 75 degrees or 15 from vertical when properly installed.

The LT5 is designed to sit in a pocket cavity on the bow (under a cover) and to rest against the top coaming of the pocket and the forward edge of the rub rail.

The horizontal members flip over as you deploy and rest in fiberglass troughs if under a cover or on top the bow deck, and the top section of the telescopic ladder has a saddle on each rail to take the rub rail loading

It's up to the OEM or individual to properly install
 
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