{"id":17487,"date":"2011-10-02T00:39:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2011-09-30T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T22:25:35","slug":"fpb-64-dinghy-launching-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-64-dinghy-launching-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"FPB 64 Dinghy Launching Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fpb64-d-inghy-launching.jpg\" alt=\"Fpb64 dinghy launching\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Launching and retrieval of a large dinghy is probably the riskiest endeavor on any yacht. Pete Rossin, of<em> Iron Lady <\/em>(FPB64-3), has written up the system he uses, the link for which is at the end of this article. Before checking his blog, here are some things for owners of all types of vessels to consider in the dinghy handling process.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspect the lifting bridle before each cycle. Check knots (which should be seized in some fashion), and make sure the bridle connections to the dinghy have a fair lead and are not binding.<\/li>\n<li>With the halyard tight, but not yet lifting the dinghy, double check turning blocks to make sure everything is in line, and that the halyard block itself is not twisted.<\/li>\n<li>Inspect the shackle pin on the halyard to see that it is 100% engaged.<\/li>\n<li>Have halyard tail flaked so it will run freely, and is not underfoot.<\/li>\n<li>Before lifting look around for wakes or wave sets that would rock the boat before the boom has been swung out.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure nobody ever stands under the dinghy or boom.<\/li>\n<li>Once the dinghy is lifted, without delay, get it over the lifelines and down so it cannot swing back with a wake (i.e. it is blocked \u00a0from coming across the boat by the lifelines or topsides).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These checks take no more than a minute. The entire process is simple that we almost always bring our dink on deck before nightfall, so we are ready to depart at a moments notice.<\/p>\n<p>To read Pete Rossin&#8217;s blog and study his photos <a href=\"https:\/\/myironlady.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/29\/dinghy-launchretrieval\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching and retrieval of a large dinghy is probably the riskiest endeavor on any yacht. Pete Rossin, of Iron Lady <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/fpb-64-dinghy-launching-procedure\/\">&#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-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487"}],"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=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}