I've had very good luck using a nylon webbing towing bridle, I bought on eBay, and letting the dingy ride on the back of the first or second stern wave. I empty the dinghy and remove the motor but leave the fuel tank tied in the stern. That appears to help keep the bow up. The bridle looks like this one: http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|294|314563&id=98483 but was half the cost. So far the dinghy hasn't bounce off the stern, just rides there on the back of the wave.
I use our Lifesling lifting tackle to hoist both the boat and motor. We attach the lifting tackle to a spinnaker halyard or the topping lift to hoist the dinghy on and off the bow. I attach the beaner to the bow ring and raise or lower it that way. For the motor we strap the lifting tackle off the end of boom which lets me crane the motor out over the side of Witchcraft and have a nice, secure and controlled hoisting event. No worries about wakes making the dingy move and my losing my balance and dropping the motor and the skeg of the motor then puncturing the inflatable just before it breaks a limb and then continues on, bouncing out of the boat and into the briny deep. (No it hasn't, but I have a good imagination) We also invested in an electric inflator/deflator so we are more inclined to deflate the boat the stow it away when we're going any distance and need to make good time or if the weather is poor. -- Stephen Petri S/V Witchcraft, Ranger 33 No. 161 http://www.teamwitchcraft.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Okopnik Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Boat Tender On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:13:12PM -0400, JohnB wrote: > I was thinking drogue myself but then the idea is not to cause > unnecessary drag and slow passage. So if things pick up do you haul the > dingy in and deploy a drogue? May not be practical in real life. I think the idea is to deploy the drogue anytime you're headed out. The trick would be to keep it from tangling if you come to a stop or whatever. > So I'm still thinking about the problem, what to use to slow the dink > and could be deployed all the time. Well if you have a cat you would be > surfing too and well ahead of the dink.:-) [grin] No, what I have is a slow but very comfortable motorsailer. Great for living aboard - at 34', "Ulysses" have more room down below than most 45-footers I've seen - but not so great for sailing fast. > Presently I just haul it on board and lash to the foredeck, if I got rid > of the dog I might never inflate it but I'm not doing ocean passages > just 40-50nm between anchorages. I don't have that option; the dinghy won't fit on my foredeck. _______________________________________________ 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
