Installing a Liferaft to our Sailboat - Where do you mount a Liferaft Cradle?

All of our sailboat repair and maintenance blogs are now hosted on our dedicated maintenance channel, MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance An edited version of this video is now hosted there. Deciding where to mount our Viking 8-man liferaft, was relatively easy. HOW to instal it was the difficult part. Drilling holes into the deck of a boat and cutting holes in it is NOT a decision you make lightly.. especially when you don't know what you're drilling into - but here's how we fixed our biggest, heaviest and most expensive piece of safety equipment onto the foredeck in the hope that it will never, ever need to be used! PLEASE NOTE: YouTube have disabled comments on family channels because they sometimes feature kids. As YouTube is no longer a family friendly platform please visit our Facebook or Patreon page (links below) to join conversations and leave messages. ▷PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/mothershipadrift Share in our adventure and get bonus material and deeper insights ▷PAYPAL https://paypal.me/Mothershipadrift?locale.x=en_GB Sponsor our videos or help towards visits to places you'd like us to feature! ▷YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipadrift Maintenance videos and travel blogs from the boat! ▷THIS VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/ezUqi1-rpQ4 Copy and paste this link to share the video! ▷INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mothershipadrift Photos/videos of the boat, crew, and other sailing characters ▷FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mothershipadrift Updates, photos, videos and news as it happens! ▷AMAZON: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/mothershipadriftfamilytravelandsailingblogs Products, spares and items we have on the boat! ▷TWITTER: https://twitter.com/moshipadrift DM's only ▷WEBSITE: https://www.mothershipadrift.com