I'm not a big fan of the Dinghy Tow for an entirely different reason. I have come up from behind a number of boats carrying a dinghy in the flipped up position. On the ICW it really is important to check behind once in a while and all those boats simply couldn't see aft from the wheel.
Since the boats were droning along in mid-channel at 5 kts I (usually 7 kts on bigger, deeper draft boats on delivery) and power boats moving appreciably faster had to make closer, faster passes than anyone would have liked. The dinghy on the foredeck is enough of a visibility issue, but the blockage aft is like driving a car with no mirrors and a blacked out rear window. Incidentally, no one responded to radio calls. sail fast and eat well, dave S/V Auspicious _______________________________________________ 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
