Getting from my boat on a lift to the main deck platform is pretty tricky at my age.I decided to buy a SS handle and mount it the 6x6 next to the boat.I shopped around and those things are $70 plus.I went to Home depot and bought galvanized piping,elbows,and made a nice one for $12.Mounted it and it is perfect.That will give me more gas money.
Now I need to find some kind of non slip something to put or paint on the pipe bar? Any ideas???
Maybe wrap it with some electrical tape or similar?
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West Marine sells a roll of textured adhesive tape that is slip resistant. I put it on the front of my trailer so I wouldn’t slip off of it when I load the boat on to it. You could use it to wrap the galv. pipe.
You can try baseball bat wrap or tennis racket wrap either would probaly work great
Great ideas !! thanks will go to Dicks monday they should have some kind of gripping tape.
Stonoman
Skate board tape. I use it on some of my impact guns so I can keep a good grip on them even when they get oily.
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If you decide to paint the handle, Home Depot has an additive you put in your paint. It’s like sand that makes the paint nonslip. Comes in little packets and is cheap.
The guys that own docks and have elderly guest around should put some kind of handle around for safety.I need to figure out something to grab on to when the boat is anchored at the float.I have to grab the tee top rail now to step out to the floater.Now that I am old and the knees are a problem I am looking at ways to make sure I do not get hurt around the dock.
Stonoman
If you own the dock you could make a counter weighted walkway with a pull rope. I know that this may sound extreme, but if you have some time and are handy with tools you could make one with not a lot of trouble. Pull up to the dock pull the rope and lower the walkway down to the gunnel. As long as someone is on it, it will stay down. When you get off it will raise with the counter weight. I’ve used them at the cement plants at Harleyville, SC to open the hatches on top of tanker trucks. Make the walkway from extruded metal and have a railing on the side. I said that it was extreme, but you won’t get hurt.
To a young person getting in and out of a boat is nothing.I have to grab the hand rail on the Tee top and use that to support myself to the boat.Then lower myself into the boat.One slip and I am hurt.I will make something sturdy out of the same pipe and use that as a hand rail.
Stonoman