Question about Passerelle Use as Davit

Hi guys,
I recently purchased a 58' Fairline Squadron. It has a Besenzoni passarelle on the back that I would like to use as a davit for a RIB. On the underside of it, it has a couple hooks that look like I could just hook the cables from the RIB. However, one of the surveyors suggested I have a winch mounted under it to use as a davit. My question is how is this usually done? Is a winch usually mounted under the passarelle to function in this way? Or do most people just strap hooks to it and lower it using the passarelle's movement? (I did google search prior to posting, this seems to be a difficult thing to get information on!)

Thanks guys...but I may not have been clear. I was not asking about the max weight or capacity. I was just trying to figure out: when someone says a passerelle can double as a davit, does that mean it must have a winch attached to it to do it, or can it simply be attached to the tender to lift it? NYCAP, was there a winch under the passerelle on the Sealine?

This passerelle was attached at Fairline.

Thank you NYCAP, particularly for answering in a way which did not feel dismissive or belittling to me. From your post, I gather that they can work in more than one way as a davit (I had no idea about this), and that I need to find out the answer for my particular unit. The truth is that my boat is currently in shipping to me and I have not been able to inspect the passerelle for a capacity plate and/or instructions on operation. In my anticipation for its arrival, I was just getting a bit of ahead of myself to satisfy some curiosity as to the tender facilities. I have never owned a boat with a passerelle before.

Please keep in mind that some of you, particularly those for whom boating is a profession, have a vast amount more knowledge at hand than those for whom boating is a hobby. And they say patience is a virtue...

I actually did check Besenzoni's website prior to ever posting here. I did not see a list of dealers available on the website. I did look at the "gangways" on their site and it looks like mine is the 375 Teorema in the external non-rotating hydraulic gangways section. At this point, I'll sit tight until it is here and then go from there.

Thanks again.

You actually edited your post to include that, huh? Your second post was not helpful or friendly, and this last post is the same. Worst of all is your suggestion that people with questions not come to Yachtforums.com, in order to avoid your wrath. Please do not include CODOG's detailed and helpful post with yours. I felt both he and NYCAP intended to help me as is not the case with you. You did not even include your "helpful" link to imtra in your first version of this last post...you threw it in along with your little jab.

Of course, I went to IMTRA before starting this thread. It's the #1 result if you google "besenzoni usa". However, if you go to any of the links they come up with in CA, instead of just copying and pasting the first google link, none of those websites say they do anything with besenzoni and none of them contain anything about passerelles. Who knew it would be such a crime for me to take 5 seconds of my time and post a quick question in a forum filled with extremely knowledgeable people in the industry?

You've given me several suggestions in this thread and now I'll share one with you constructed upon your contributions in this thread and others that I've read recently. I suggest you try to separate your expansive swath of yachting knowledge from your substantially larger ego and make an attempt at sharing that knowledge without bludgeoning them in the cyber sense. Otherwise, it's all for naught and you simply detract from the value of this forum.

I ask "how does a passerelle lift a tender" and K1W1's last words are "get a life". How fortunate am I to have this resource at my disposal?

Thank you again to NYCAP and CODOG...after I get the boat here and have the opportunity to look at it, I'll dig into this further. Too bad this thread couldn't have been closed after NYCAP's last post.