Davits
This week, after owning Rough Draft for seventeen years, I put davits on the boat. For those of you who are not boaters, davits hang off the back of the boat and are used to carry the boat’s dinghy. Here’s a picture.
Now I suspect that there are some readers out there who wonder what took us so long, and others who wonder why now after all this time? The truth of the matter is that we’ve done fine without davits. I actually decided to buy the davits not because I had to have them for our dinghy, but because we had no other place to put solar panels. I plan to put a large solar panel on top of the davits. I bought heavy duty, 1 1/4 inch stainless davits from Garhauer Marine that will hold a 200 to 300 watt solar panel, and our dinghy. The cost was $1300.00 and I feel the davits are well worth the price. I’m ordering the panel this week so I’ll report on the installation when it arrives. I’ve only got about 5 weeks before we plan to head south and back to the Bahamas. If all goes as planned we hope to either explore the lower Bahamas, or head further down into the Caribbean.
