It's a west marine pump I bought in the clearance section. It doesn't pump the inflatable up to working pressure, but gets most of the way there. It fills the chambers so I only need about 6-7 pumps with the hand pump for the tubes. The air-deck takes about 15-20 to get it to pressure.
I'm done in less than 15 minutes, when before it used to take more than an hour with much sweating. I have to use a piece of water tubing and hose clamps to make the WM pump work on a Mercury, but it only cost me $17.00 to buy it. -- 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: Friday, August 27, 2010 10:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Boat Tender _Towing > make good time or if the weather is poor. I'm curious: what brand did you get? The ones that West Marine offers didn't seem to work worth diddley. The average inflatable is supposed to be inflated to 3.5psi or so - my buddy in the inflatable repair business tells me that underinflation wears out more dinghies than all the other reasons combined - and that thing just couldn't get anywhere near that. -- _______________________________________________ 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
