{"id":10287,"date":"2010-02-18T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/side-boarding-ladder\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:57:08","slug":"side-boarding-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/side-boarding-ladder\/","title":{"rendered":"Side Boarding Ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"FPB-64-stainles-rail-work-205\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fpb-64-stainles-rail-work-205.jpg\" width=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is one of those small but important cruising details, a side boarding ladder. We are on Mk IV on <em>Wind Horse<\/em>, so this one should be perfect from the start.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of key design issues which need to be addressed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>The ladder as to be light enough and compact enough to be easily handled and stored in the forepeak or dinghy.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Its height needs to vary depending on the dock against which you are lying (in our case, you can raise or lower the ladder depending on the height of the boarding gate rails over which it is hooked.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The angle may need to be adjusted depending on the docking situation.<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"FPB-64-stainles-rail-work-204\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fpb-64-stainles-rail-work-204.jpg\" width=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The short leg at the bottom of the photo is a pipe within a pipe and easily adjusted for length (and hence ladder angle).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is one of those small but important cruising details, a side boarding ladder. We are on Mk IV on <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/side-boarding-ladder\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}