{"id":652,"date":"2018-01-04T20:19:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2018-09-20T21:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T21:35:29","slug":"anything-swim-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/anything-swim-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything With a Swim Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/anything-swim-step\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s 2 a.m.\u00a0 You&#8217;re on a mooring in your favorite getaway harbor. The party on the boat three cans down has finally died away.\u00a0 And, you still can&#8217;t sleep.\u00a0 Something&#8217;s missing.\u00a0 You jump up and dash topside, flashlight in hand, looking over the side and around the anchorage.\u00a0 <em>The dinghy got away!\u00a0 It&#8217;s not banging on the side at the end of the painter!\u00a0 That&#8217;s what&#8217;s missing&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You glance over the transom, and there she is, firmly clipped to the swim step.\u00a0 Not swinging, not banging on the side, not trying to escape.\u00a0 Easy to board, easy to release, and easy to attach and exit. That&#8217;s a side benefit of the Forespar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forespar.com\/quikdavit-kit-inflatable-dinghies.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Quik Davit.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Quik-Davit-Installed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-654 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Quik-Davit-Installed-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Quik Davit Installed 1\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Quik-Davit-Installed-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Quik-Davit-Installed-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Quik-Davit-Installed-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Quik-Davit-Installed-1-190x143.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We added the Quik Davit to the swimstep of our Grand Banks so we&#8217;d have an easy way to hoist in the dinghy when moving to a new spot, rather than use the the topside power hoist, etc.\u00a0 It works perfectly as the name implies, and as our private, mobile dinghy dock.<\/p>\n<p>Friends use the Quik Davit on a variety of smaller and larger power boats as the primary davit because it&#8217;s easier to inflate the dinghy at the home dock, hoist\/tilt it onto the step, and drive away &#8211; and reverse the process when back at the home dock.\u00a0 Sailboat owners do the same, usually for shorter cruises, and for the above-mentioned reason.<\/p>\n<p>Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forespar.com\/quikdavit-kit-inflatable-dinghies.shtml\">Quik Davit <\/a>out.\u00a0 It installs easily on both the dinghy and the step of just about any boat, is easy to use, the price is right &#8211;\u00a0 And you&#8217;ll sleep better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet It&#8217;s 2 a.m.\u00a0 You&#8217;re on a mooring in your favorite getaway harbor. The party on the boat three cans down has finally died away.\u00a0 And, you still can&#8217;t sleep.\u00a0 Something&#8217;s missing.\u00a0 You jump up and dash topside, flashlight in hand, looking over the side and around the anchorage.\u00a0 The dinghy got away!\u00a0 It&#8217;s not&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/anything-swim-step\/\">Read more: Anything With a Swim Step<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[134,136,135,137],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forespar-products-in-use","category-uncategorized","tag-davit","tag-dinght-davot-quik-davit","tag-dinghy","tag-quik-davit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}