Would you stow your life raft here? (Frugal Upgrading) 

Hank is adorable and I can’t believe you carry him down the ladder!. Great vlog and I like your tips on bargain hunting.. Thank you

I don't know why YT stuck a 2yr old vid in my feed but I'm glad it did. It gave me a chance to see brilliant Carly episode and a reminiscent glimpse of the famous whole-of-Solent visible landmark Fawley Tower now sadly demolished.

So just a word of caution. Life-rafts are the absolute choice of LAST resort. You should only get into a life-rafts if you have to step up as the boat is going under. Life-rafts are very flimsy and only Intended for a few days at the most. A good quality 'rubber dinghy" will be much safer and long lasting. Before you were probably born there was a terrible disaster in the 1979 famous Fastnet race ( to Ireland and back). A dozen or so experienced sailors lost their lives off various different yachts in the race hit by a storm. They abandoned their yachts for liferafts and perished when the liferafts flipped or sank. Most of the boats were found later rough but floating . The crews could have survived if they stayed with their yachts. Some Changes were made to liferaft designs after this well publicized tragedy but they are still not great and should be a choice of very last resort and most defiantly not a 'get out of jail free card'. Especially well offshore and in countries with poor rescue services. I would invest in a good rubber dinghy with a good ditch kit. Some come with extras to use as a life raft. Yachts rarely go down so quickly that you need a quick release liferaft ( the locker is Prehaps not the best though). Also I doubt the cover of that raft is designed for continuous UV exposure. Cheers Warren. PS see this post about the greatest liferaft story ever warren149.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/review-of-the-last-voyage-of-the-lucette-by-douglas-robertson/

A Much better mounting ✅. That life raft looked to be Fifty (50) pounds at LEAST...!! 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔👍

Hank will need his own Instagram account before you know it. Dom, I know the feeling of being "blue" from scraping bottom paint,haha. Looking forward to tomorrow's episode........

Looking fwd to the no frills vlogs..its what RU-vid was made for. More content more subs! Your efforts will be well rewarded Well done guys 👍

It is not every sailor girl that has her own "blue man". So glad you got a life raft bracket. The locker was not the best. In an emergency situation with adrenaline pumping you could have gotten the raft out of the locker. Having a bracket is so much better. You may want to turn the bracket so it is facing outboard. Facing inboard the way you have it will require lifting the raft over the guard rail. Keep it simply. Enjoying your channel a great deal. Be happy, be safe.

The general advice is to step up into the liferaft, so for the most part the time taken to extricate the raft and deploy it - is good thinking and assessment time about if you really need to abandon ship. However the one practical exception (and there is always an exception) would be a major fire.

Just watched the “Next Leg 2020” video. Great, and for one simple reason: I believe most of us here, on the other side of the monitor, are either dreaming of doing this or half way through (this last category encompassing all of us who already bought a boat and is in desperate search for knowledge and experience). So, the upcoming videos, regardless the editing details, quality, lack of dramatic or idyllic scenery will in fact have content that a good number of your viewers are actually looking for! Something that may add or help building up everybody´s boating experience! All the best to you both!

Good real life vid guys, and of course leading deckhand Hank. Keep up the good work Carly and Dom.

And you free up an all important locker 👍

Love frugal living, so satisfying getting a good deal. Hank is such a character, looking forward to more of his antics! Thanks for the share! X

well done frugal & smirf & boss hank

That’s where I fitted my life raft but outside the rail so I just need to pull a snap shackle and it’s launched. I also fitted a hydrostatic release unit (off eBay!) so in theory it will launch itself if the boat sinks. I didn’t think much of the supplied fixing brackets so I strapped in on with some big (10mm) tie wraps.

Hi just get it serviced as rafts are so expensive

Best decision you can make, having LSAs in a grab bag in the cockpit and a LR on the stern is a must. Having sailed for over a decade now, the importance of easier reachable life saving equipment cannot be missed. Better to have it and never use it than need to use it once and never have it! Beaulieu boat jumble is cracking! We got our first tender from there. Make sure you fit a hydrostatic release unit for the raft with the painter attached so if the vessel goes down too fast it will release automatically. Standard thing on merchant vessels and yachts and happy to explain more if you give me a shout! Keep the daily’s coming

Adrenaline in an emergency would get that liferaft out of there in 10 seconds! 🙂😳

Nothing wrong with recycling Yot-grot! We had a sneaky peak, but any chance of seeing some of your art work.....looked great.

Was wondering how Hang got up and down the ladder

I was going to ask how you get Hank off the boat. Don't need to now. How smart is that dog? Love him.

Where is your hydrovane?

Great job girl good job moving the life raft to a safer place what a great dog you guys have cheers

Great Vlog Carly! What was Hank getting into at the beginning, Tissues?

i was wandering how you got the dog down :-) why not rig up a pulley system from the boom so you can lower/raise him more easily? i would stow the life raft forward of the main mast.

Nice video

Nice find. I am broke from Facebook market but also Gumtree. Going to a boat jumble in Carrickfergus in May

Aye m8's, it should be possible to mount the cradle on the outside, regardless of its shape.

How about a frame in front of the spray hood, put a winch and on the transom, you use a winch and more than a life raft,, you hope ,

😀👍

Love the "Braveheart" makeup Dom!!!!

Yay for the accessible life raft! 🙂👌

how do you guys move hank up and down the boat when the boat is offshore? D:

great deal and i believe hank approved by his reactions

Great idea, great price!

Liferaft looks huge, could you get away with a smaller one? How does the doggy get on board when your out of the water? PS don't tell everyone about FB, there won't be any bargains left :-)

Are you in the middle of Storm Dennis there?

Exact same cradle I have. As you are on the Hamble I would thoroughly recommend going to Universal Safety at Swanwick. You can see life rafts they have being serviced, you can specify what you want and they can sort out a good deal for you and may take your old raft for a few quid off a new one. I took an old raft to them for servicing and they opened it for me and showed me how bad it was.... they gave me £50 for it and a good deal on a Lalizas ISO raft with a 24hr pack. Worth a visit just to see what you are getting. Speak to James. Address is Universal Safety Ltd Unit 3-5 Midas Business Park Coal Park Lane Swanwick Southampton Andy UK

To late with raft the boat has sunk