Looks kind of rickety to me. Don't know that I would trust that.
It's a very heavy-duty Weaver-davit setup. I don't know if the brackets on the swimstep and the pivoting "davits" mounted on the side of the Bullfrog were actually made by Weaver or not. But whomever made them, they are significantly heavier in materials than the Weaver Snap Davit components we use for our 9' Livingston.
So the lower side of the Bullfrog is solidly clamped to the brackets on the swimstep and the upper side of the dinghy is secured in place using rod-type standoffs, same as the Weaver system.
The rigging from the boat's boom is, I assume, used to lift the motor off it's bracket for installation on the dinghy once it's been deployed.
To be honest I can't remember how the dinghy itself is deployed and retrieved, if he has a Seawise-type winch on the port side or if he uses the boom fall to lower and raise the dinghy (which is what we do with our Livingston).
The owner and his wife have taken the boat up the Passage to SE Alaska several times so I assume his dinghy and motor storage and deployment system gets the job done fairly well.
The boat is kept next to our friend's lobsterboat so I'll have to remember to walk out there the next time we go to our boat and refresh my memory on his setup.
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