We liked our dinghy tow a lot. If you look at their web page at www.dinghy-tow.com there is a lot of the physics explained. Ours was used constantly for 5 years without failure.
We did install ours ourself and paid attention to the details. We also put Boeshield on all parts in contact with salt water, and never had any rust. Its still in great shape. We pulled our dinghy across some turbulent seas and in storms with severe weather, without a complaint and only compliments... That is why those who have used them are generally proponents. But you can do as you want and thats the reason everyone has their own boat. By the way, we had read a report of cruisers who had taken their dinghy-tow to Europe and reported good luck in a serious north sea storm. The dinghy is kept almost as secure as it would be on deck, and way more secure than it would be in davits. Ed Kelly on Angel Louise On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Phil Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Ironically, another sailing/boating-oriented list just had a > dinghy-towing discussion. For me, towing a dinghy anywhere except in > well protected coastal or inland waters is a Really Bad Idea. If the > dinghy's painter or bridle/tow rig doesn't break or the dinghy > doesn't swamp, it'll come charging at your transom in following seas > and try pretty hard to join you in the cockpit. > > Just recently another cruiser here told of having to build himself a > new dinghy after the dinghy he was towing along the coast of > Nicaragua "just disappeared." > > The guy mentioned in a previous post had the nerve to complain about > a dinghy-towing device failing after towing a dinghy in rough > following seas? Because the device can't handle towing while doing > serious off-shore sailing? Really? People tow tenders and dinghies > and such while blue-water sailing? Talk about asking for trouble, > then being upset when trouble happens ... > > But whatever. JMHO; diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. > > Phil > s/v Cynosure > Bahia de Caraquez > > > > At 03:48 PM 8/25/2010 -0400, you wrote: >>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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Ed Kelly sailing vessel ANGEL LOUISE - Catalac 12m Skype Cell telephone: 202-657-6357 [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
