Ah. Thanks for clarifying; sorry to have missed (at least part of) the point. Device looks cool and I can see using it for dinghy storage while moored or anchored, but the towing application still looks like an accident waiting to happen, esp. in following seas. JMHO.
For nighttime security and short- or medium-term storage, I just pick the dinghy up with a halyard. One of these days I'll do something more elegant with the spinnaker pole topping lift, spinnaker pole, and block and tackle for lifting up the dinghy. Phil s/v Cynosure Bahia de Caraquez At 09:43 PM 8/27/2010 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 05:21:37PM -0500, Phil Sherwood wrote: > > > > 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 ... > >Phil, I hear what you're saying, and I even agree with you - but the >gadget mentioned isn't a dinghy-towing device; it's a replacement for >davits that raises the dinghy mostly out of the water, and can even flip >it up over your stern for storage. Frankly, I think that they were >drinking Screech the day they named it "Dinghy-Tow", since it mostly >doesn't. :) _______________________________________________ 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
