On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:59:04PM -0400, Ed Kelly wrote: > We lucked out in finding an alternative to davits or > conventional towing. > > We loved the ability to use a DINGHY-Tow device. > www.dinghy-tow.com > Its patented by a Canadian inventor.
I'd looked into one of those a couple of years ago; there are a lot of people who like them and recommend them, and there are lots of glowing testimonials on the site. However, searching the Net turned up a couple of failure reports that were pretty horrible - as I recall, one guy was in rough following seas, and had a really bad time when the whole shebang broke and he couldn't untangle it. Someone else reported rusting problems (the company told him to _grease_ the stainless.) I just searched again, and couldn't find the first report - couldn't remember enough keywords - but the second one is here: http://tinyurl.com/23emqhz Most people's complaint seems to be that it just isn't sturdy enough for serious off-shore sailing. -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
