Swimming platform lift system

[Alik]

I woonder if someone can recommend good hydraulic lift system for swimming platform, for big boat. Thanks.

[Poida]

G'day Alik,

No I don't, but I would be interested to know how and where you would fit one.

Poida

[Alik]

Should be here:
http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...00/ppuser/1473

[Frosty]

Poida you forgot to ask why, so I will,----why.

Is this a swim platform that lowers a swimmer into the water gently and then recovers them when they have finished. The mind boggles.

Is this for incapacitated/ geriatric/ obese swimmers?

Or people who are too rich to climb a ladder.

[Roly]

Or people who are too rich to climb a ladder.

Awww, frosty, you have such a way with words.
Luv ya work!
Really,its a front. swimmers? Or heavy contraband?
Maybe his transom is 10' high. Pretty hard too lift scuba up a 10' vert cliff.

[bhnautika]

Alik are we talking vertical lift or rotating up. Most have to be engineered to the transom of the boat in question.

[Alik]

I mean vertical lift.

[Willallison]

What does it have to lift?
Tender? etc?, If so what sort of weight?

[Frosty]

To manufacture something like this as a bolt on or even build in would be unlikey to fit another. So many variations in dimension.

However at the Marina where I am at the top of malacca straits I see many super yachts on there way around the world or passaging to East -West.

I have noticed that they usually have wonderfull access to the sea from the stern. In some case maybe only 6 inches.

My attention was attracted to this because I would imagine this area would be totaly awash at sea.

A vertical lift on these large ones I have not seen. There is one in the 50 foot range that has a lift with a RIB on it and I have to say that it looks ugly on this boat.

Most super yachts lift/crane the RIB's boats of all descriptions up and onto the deck.

You wouldnt want to maintain something on the transom whilst on the way.

[Alik]

Have to lift jet ski, or be lowered down to provide easy from water access for divers. This is customer's requirement, not ours
We will have a crane for RIB also.

[Willallison]

There's nothing uncommon in this - and given the opportunity, I'd certainly include a 'lift' on my stern...
(Don't even think it Frosty...)

There are any number of manufacturers -

http://www.floridabowthrusters.com/swimplatforms.htm I think supply Searay

http://www.tntlifts.com/ are one of the better known ones

http://www.nauticexpo.com/scripts/go_to_web.php is another, though I've not seen these particular ones before

[Alik]

Thanks!

[Poida]

Right got it now. So it only has a lift of 300 - 400mm, just below to just above the water line. I thought you wanted something that was going to raise right up to the top of the transom.

Will your last link didn't work for me.

Poida

[Frosty]

Oh --I was thinking of bigger boats.

The last super yacht I saw come in was a boat called "Senses" her stern end/ transom collapsed to accomodate a 40 foot nelson that drove up inside it.

She had a two sailing yachts on the top deck and stuff i forget down on the first. And a helecopter.

[yipster]

hi guy's, i've seen that searay platform demonstrated on a show and liked it.
one of the motor supercats had a huge platform lifting from sciccor like jacks on the hulls.
to lift only a jetski up there are systems that work separate from under and after the platform.