[C320-list] Companion ladder quick fix

[Pat Tormey]

Sure, else I’d be wondering where I put the damn things

Pat Tormey 
Blue Skies
#1037
Currently Pax River MD

From: Dick Walker
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 4:54 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Cc: c320-list at lists.catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Companion ladder quick fix

Did you use the wire keepers?

Great Idea


Cheers



Dick Walker
740 Olive Ave.
Coronado ,CA 92118
619.435.8986



> On Oct 22, 2018, at 13:36, Pat Tormey <ptormey at 4square.net> wrote:
> 
> I never warmed up to the companion ladder. Seems clipping it over my head wasn’t a great solution. First, I bang my head, second, that thing I needed is still in the cockpit and now the ladder is in the way and third, it’s a fire hazard; I don’t like things between me and the way out.
> 
> The quick fix is to replace the 2 pivot screws with quick disconnect pins. It still swings up but now I can just remove it.
> I used Seachoice 75961 Quick Disconnect Stainless steel pin set (with wire keepers) $15 Ace hardware and had to drill the screw threads out of one side of each bracket to ¼ inch.
> 
> Pat Tormey 
> Blue Skies
> #1037
>