I travel with my dingy deflated and covered on the foredeck. When I arrive at an anchorage I inflate it and use my whisker pole to crane it overboard. I toe it on short hops to new coves, but for longer passages, I crane it aboard and overturn it on the foredeck. David Hoyt Sovereignty Catalina 27 #65 ahsovereignty.com In a message dated 6/2/2010 7:01:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hey folks, Looking for some creative dinghy transport solutions for our C270. We sailed to Oxford, MD this weekend with our 7'6" dinghy deflated on deck. Once at anchor, I dragged it to the stern and blew it up. It worked ok, but was not the smoothest solution. And forget about getting it back up on deck (it sat forward of the companionway on the trip over) it's too heavy to heave back up there. So it ended up being deflated and not-so-elegantly tied to the stern, but that was roughly a 50 minute process I don't want to drag it, my guess is we'll loose 1 to 1.5 knots. Don't particularly want davits as the boat budget has been blown on the autopilot this year and I feel that might be overkill for our 27 foot boat. I know there's only so many ways to bring a dinghy with you, but aside from deflating it or davits, am I missing some creative solution? Thanks, Mike C270 - Detente - #313
