Standing room only
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SBO Weather and Forecasting Forum Jim & John
- Oct 22, 2014
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Never been a stander.
Conjecture on this unusal sighting:
Conjecture on this unusal sighting:
- Since becoming Cruisers, the rich diet means standing is better exercise.
- They imbibed on too much rum. Standing helps with the hangover
- Since becoming a boater they have discovered they are now height challenged when the dingy bow rises in a wave.
- They installed to big of an outboard. If they sit the stern goes under water.
- It looks cool holding the bow rope, standing with the outboard full out.
Depends on the bottom construction but generally do not advocate standing up in one. Nice discussion on that subject in this article Can You Stand Up In An Inflatable Boat? - Anchor Travel
Perhaps receivers of the Darwin Award trying to emulate a picture they once saw ?
Checking on the boats from which these people have come will go a long way to explaining this phenomenon.
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I used to stand up in my RIB if I was going to dinner and didn't want to get my pants wet.
I was in Edgartown and saw a contingent from the NY Yacht club going ashore in uniform. The big RIB had a stainless steel bar secured to the floor of the rib that came up and went aft horizontally, down the center, at hip height, so that passengers could stand and hold on. There must have been six passengers in that thing!
I was in Edgartown and saw a contingent from the NY Yacht club going ashore in uniform. The big RIB had a stainless steel bar secured to the floor of the rib that came up and went aft horizontally, down the center, at hip height, so that passengers could stand and hold on. There must have been six passengers in that thing!
Being an option, and it being a "safe" option are two different things.
I've stood up in many forms of small craft.
There is actually a technique of standing on the gunnels of a canoe and pushing up and down with your legs to propel the canoe which can be used in the case of loosing your paddles. If you practice and attain a certain proficiency, you can even steer the canoe as you move forward. Now, do I consider that "safe"? Perhaps that's the wrong term, but it is a technique and can be done providing an option to get to shore - or possibly recover your paddles - if you loose your paddles.
Standing in other small craft is an option. Is it a "safe" option? I leave that to discussion...
dj
p.s. We used to call if "gunnel jumping" but a quick youtube search shows it's now called "gunnel pumping"
Safe to a degree, Russian roulette is safe to a degree. Sitting down lowers the center of gravity and makes everything more stable. How cold is the water? How good a swimmer are you?
A lot safer than how we used to play mumbley pegs...We used to call it gunnel bobbing. Another form is to put a kid on each end of the canoe, each tries to bounce the other off. Nope, not safe, but fun
dj
I noticed that most of the folks standing and driving their dinghies were much younger than I am and presumably more nimble.
At a glance it would seem safer than a paddle board but that would depend upon environment and preparation.
I installed such a bar athwartships in my AB so that I could stand up safely with the dogs in the boat. I called it a "granny bar". It was also very useful in boarding the dinghy while maintaining my dignity.
Yes. Very simple. Stainless tubing, fittings with set screws, foundation fittings. By loosening 2 set screws the thing would fold up and lay flat in the dink to go up on the davits. It was so funny watching couples tumble into their dinks at the docks when we were able to just step gracefully aboard, and with the dogs. I'll see if I can dig out a pic and post it.
As to getting in and out of dinghy we have a simple but effective fix. I made up two lines with floats on one end. When anchored we fasten these to either side of the stern railing and toss the float ends overboard and lower the swim ladder that pivots on the stern. When it is time to enter the dinghy I go down the ladder and step into the dinghy. Once seated I hold the two lines and press the dinghy bow hard against the swim ladder. The wife and dog can now climb down with the dinghy firmly against the bottom of the ladder. Returning to the boat from shore, it is easy to grab one of the floating lines and then once again align the dinghy with the ladder. Not perfect, but better.
We do something similar. Second Star has a sugar scoop and a ladder. Two long sail ties have been repurposed and are connected to the stern rail and drop to the water. Entering the dinghy, hold one (or both) sail ties and step into the dinghy which is beam to the swim platform. Reverse the process getting out.