H49/H50 Factory Davits Question

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T J Furstenau

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Apr 6, 2004
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Hunter 49 Downers Grove, IL
I know it's a long shot, but as the saying goes, nothing ventured nothing gained.

What are the chances that one of you happens to - have the hunter factory davits installed on your boat, be on your boat (or close enough to it to take a measurement), AND have possibly drilled a hole in those davits (to possibly run solar wiring or hardware), so that you might be able to measure the wall thickness of the davits. I am in the process of having custom davits fabricated (to be as close to original as possible) and while I can (and have) pulled every other possibly dimension from a neighbors boat, I DON'T have the wall thickness. Now, I know it's 2" OD and was going to err on the side of over-engineering this and go with .25" wall thickness. But my fabricator thinks that it might be a bit much and I could save weight (and cost) by stepping down to a .1875" wall thickness.

So, if you have the davits AND have a hole drilled in it, would ask that you stick a piece of wire/hanger/skewer straight in that hole until it bottoms out.
If it goes in 1 3/4", we have .25" wall thickness, if it goes in 1 13/16" then we have .1875" wall thickness, and I can get my steel order placed and we can start building.

Thank you!

T J
 
Don S/V ILLusion

Don S/V ILLusion

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Sep 25, 2008
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Alden 50 Sarasota, Florida
Can’t help but are you sure Hunter actually made davits? I’m pretty sure they are after-market.
 
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T J Furstenau

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Apr 6, 2004
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Hunter 49 Downers Grove, IL
These are the 2" diameter tubular, curved tubular davits, that are found on multiple H49/H50 boats. They very possibly were made by a 3rd party vendor. but they were made specifically for the H49/H50. I had been trying to track them down, but found that the original fabricator of them (for Hunter) no longer has the tooling to make them, and candidly it would have been too costly to have them made in FL and shipped to me. So. semantically, whether they were made BY Hunter or made FOR Hunter, they were specific to the H49/H50. And candidly, I just prefer them to the true "aftermarket" davits - Kato, Garhauer, etc.
 
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Daze

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Dec 16, 2019
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Hunter 49 Marblehead, MA
I remember there were drawings and pictures of the davits located on this site. I can't seem to find them but just read from a post from @artboas that some information has been removed. Not sure if what I am thinking of was removed as well or if I just can't find it. It was definitely available at one time. I will be at my H49 this weekend and see if there are any holes in my davits. I have not drilled any, as I ran my solar wires in a wire loom outside the tubing.
 
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artboas

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Jun 1, 2009
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Hunter 49 toronto
Daze said:
I remember there were drawings and pictures of the davits located on this site. I can't seem to find them but just read from a post from @artboas that some information has been removed. Not sure if what I am thinking of was removed as well or if I just can't find it. It was definitely available at one time. I will be at my H49 this weekend and see if there are any holes in my davits. I have not drilled any, as I ran my solar wires in a wire loom outside the tubing.
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The info you are looking for was in the documents that were taken down by Marlow.
I wish I could be more helpful
 
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T J Furstenau

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Apr 6, 2004
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Hunter 49 Downers Grove, IL
Thanks to all for the feedback and input.

So, here's where I stand - I was able to find a hole drilled in my arch (for the overhead light/stereo wiring) and that measured at 1/8" thick. I was originally spec'ing out the davits as 316 stainless tube at 2" diam with 1/4" wall thickness, knowing that this was likely overengineered, my fabricator thought I was crazy at 1/4". Now the arch is two tubes, while the davits would be a single tube, but I've decided that I'm comfortable splitting the difference at 3/16" wall thickness. Candidly, I've kinda screwed myself, as had I gotten this done last fall I wouldn't have gotten caught in this whole tariff mess, but now I'm stuck with the higher prices. But this is a davits post and NOT a political one.

I can't/don't want to go any smaller to sacrifice strength in order to save some money. Thoughts on 316 vs 304 on stainless? If I was staying on the Great Lakes, I might have been okay with 304, but as we're headed to salt water, I was shopping 316.

I'm looking at pulling the trigger in the next couple of days so that I can get this finished being built before we head out in June.

T J
 
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artboas

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Jun 1, 2009
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Hunter 49 toronto
Daze said:
I remember there were drawings and pictures of the davits located on this site. I can't seem to find them but just read from a post from @artboas that some information has been removed. Not sure if what I am thinking of was removed as well or if I just can't find it. It was definitely available at one time. I will be at my H49 this weekend and see if there are any holes in my davits. I have not drilled any, as I ran my solar wires in a wire loom outside the tubing.
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The information was purposely removed by Marlow.
I contacted them (very politely) several times, and I couldn’t have been responded to more rudely. I even offered to host the documents, and pay for it.
They said “don’t ever contact us again)
Nice …
 
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