Can Canisters in Raft Be Used Again
- #1
I'm thinking about making ameliorate use of space on board my motorsailer.
I take a four-human being Plastimo liferaft in a soft blue plastic valise. Ideally, I'm thinking that I would like to have this on deck in a canister mounted in a cradle ...to costless up space beneath deck, and get in easier to deploy should information technology always be required.
Do I have to throw-out/sell-on my existing liferaft and get-go again, or is it possible to buy a canister to stow my life raft in, and mount this in a cradle?
Any thoughts?
Thank you
- #ii
pvb
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No, you can proceed the liferaft, just take it to a servicing station and ask them to pack information technology in a canister for you.
- #iii
We had our vi homo Plastimo Valise Liferaft (which we bought new a few years ago) re-packed into the correct Plastimo container by a Plastimo amanuensis. they fifty-fifty ordered all the correct stickers and upgraded it at its next service to the higher spec model. (Same liferaft - more eqipment: flares, torch, ocean sick tables etc etc) Information technology wasn't fifty-fifty very expensive if I recall.
- #4
awol
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A wee word of warning. When I bought my gunkhole in Portugal the liferaft that came with it failed its service with a perished accident-off valve. The service station had a second-paw raft ( the make I tin can't remember - Dunlop I think) that I wanted in a valise and so it was packed in a blue Plastimo bag. I was very pleased with the service station - I was there when they tested the old one, saw the new (2nd hand) one inflated and packed with its contents and was a lot happier than if I'd had to get a new one.
The problem came a year later on when I took information technology for service and Cosalt refused to touch the ******* mix of makes every bit they claimed they could not certify information technology, neither could they procure (or perchance they didn't want to) either a compliant canister or valise. It was 5 years old, just out of its service from Portugal and so I flogged it on eBay with the full story and bought another one.
- #five
I'g having my Seago packed from valise to canister by Cosalt in Edinburgh. Probable toll seems to be £150 on acme of the usual service for canister, harness and labels. A stainless bracket would add a wodge more merely I'thou going to brand a removable wooden rack to go between the grab rails instead.
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- #half dozen
The majority of practiced agents will sell you a canister and pack it for y'all with all required labels. I had ours done, Plastimo 6man, with no problems at all, even upgraded the contents to RoRC standard.
- #seven
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I'd exist interested to see your design.
- #8
Thanks for all your replies.
Adept news. So it sounds like I should be able to become it re-packed in a canister [past a company like Cosalt] without too much hassle. I'll look into that.
I call up that the stainless steel brackets are around £150 or so.
Thanks once again for your assistance!
- #9
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How-do-you-do, can you retrieve what you paid Cosalt for a service on your Seago raft ? I have a Seago half-dozen man offshore valise which I may take to Cosalt in Grimsby later in the year. I guess the 150 for was for the new cannister ?
Thanks
- #10
Cheers for all your replies.
Skillful news. So information technology sounds similar I should exist able to get it re-packed in a canister [by a company like Cosalt] without likewise much hassle. I'll look into that.
I think that the stainless steel brackets are around £150 or so.
Cheers again for your aid!
Does seem the s/due south cradles are a rip off - I wonder what a fleck of custom fabrication would cost?
- #eleven
Stainless cradle, I had made from 304 locally for £44.
Repacking a Plastimo in a canister would be easier than many other makes - cost of canister is £140-£180 depending on size.
Y'all may be ameliorate-off in pure economic terms to flog your existing raft and buy new (Plastimo liferafts have a pretty dire reputation)
- #12
Then would I - I haven't done it yet. I suspect it will start with a couple of three or four loop teak grabrails to provide intermediate support pads. I'm not even going to start on information technology until I get the repacked liferaft and information technology'due south in the queue for belatedly March at Cosalt ... if they tin get a canister by and then ...
- #13
They haven't washed it yet, only their estimate is £250. Seago quoted about £180, simply since I'd have to pay for a carrier each way besides in that location wasn't really much in it.
- #14
Cheers to all contributors.
I remember Charles Reed's betoken above [also touched on by other contributors]; that in pure economic terms I might be meliorate starting again is valid.
My liferaft is six months beyond it's service appointment, so past the time I get it serviced and re-packed in a canister the tab will be mounting upwards. So it might well be better just to buy a replacement.
Better go have a look then.
Thank you again!
- #15
Which particular model of Plastimo and what specific problems or, is it simply rumour?
- #xvi
I about responded to that allegation as well. We have a Plastimo Liferaft and its serviced and now has the full ORC kit, in a Cannister and we are happy with it. I too wonder what this 'pretty dire' reputation was. I have looked at the tests, and whilst it doesn't come out elevation, its OK. I have done liferaft drills in really common cold water and I appreciate the difficulty of getting into a liferaft from the ocean whilst wearing an inflated lifejacket. I have looked at our Plastimo raft and don't see any existent issues etc.
- #17
If you haven't had a canister raft before and are thinking of irresolute to one, be aware how bad-mannered the things are to handle. Smooth rounded surfaces with nowhere to become a grip on them. I take a hell of a job shifting mine (8-human) from boat to car to shed without dropping it. How ane is supposed to pick it up and toss it into the sea with the gunkhole leaping about and everything wet I don't know.
Why can't the manufacturers put handles on them?
- #xviii
Our canister has 'sort of' handles' moulded into the canister. The trouble is its a chip top-heavy and unstable when you carry it. Having said that, I haven't dropped it all the same
- #nineteen
I was also intrigued about the Plastimo comments. Given the amount of R&D testing that Plastimo put into their rafts, I would doubt the validity of the "pretty dire" claim very much. I have heard cypher simply very positive comments near them from customers.
Incidentally, Gael Force (who yes, I practise work for, just providing the information, non urging you to purchase! 
) are offering good prices on new Wetline Liferafts with a Stainless Cradle Bargain at the moment, if it's of involvement to the OP.
- #20
So, who make Wetline and how many service agents practice they take outside the United kingdom? Seago for case accept two service agents in French republic and one in Kingdom of spain - not much use if you lot're elsewhere. At least, Plastimo are well represented and my "offshore" hasn't been found to take problems after xv years of re-packs.
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