mmm having had both.. I much prefer a hard dink. Not all of us have or want motors.. I like rowing, at times.. other times I Like my trolling motor.. I am not much in a hurry to go awaywhere fast at my age. >:) My last hard dingy was very tender, but I got used to it and nevern much noticed. Loaned it to a freind with a very active jack russell terrier. She swore she would never have a hard dink after that trip. I personally hoped that the yapper would fall overboard and drown. Unfortunately Genny turned out to be a very good swimmer.
The whole dink question is a very much to each his/her own situation. Spend the money on a Fatty Knees or some other pricey hard dink and have it, theoretically forever. Spend the money on an inflatable and have it for 10 or so yrs, in theory... of course you have to remember to put a set of dingy chaps on it to keep the pontoons from rotting in the tropical sun..that is IF you get that far south.. then there are those that are not hard bottomed and you come up on a rocky beach or such.. its all very much a matter of taste in my book. I had a trinka.. and will get one again when I can afford it.. worth every penny I spent. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:25:41AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > > And then there is also the flying dinghy... > > I had one of those, actually. Didn't even pay that much for it. :) > > On my first cruise in the Bahamas, I anchored at Galliot Cay shortly > before a huge front came through. In the space of 5 minutes, the weather > went from "perfect Bahamian" to 70kt by the anemometer and gusting > higher - and then back to normal 10-15 minutes later. During that short > stretch, though, my hard dinghy took flight: flipped over and stayed up > in the air, flapping, and didn't touch the water for several minutes. > Fortunately, I had taken everything (except the oars, unfortunately... > I thought they were safe, since they were clipped in!) out of the > dinghy. Pulling it out of the water after the front had passed (it sank, > of course) was fun too - good thing I didn't have a motor on it. > > I don't recommend it to anyone, even if you do get to say "I had a > flying dinghy once!" afterwards. :) > > > -- > * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * > http://LinuxGazette.NET<http://linuxgazette.net/>* > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/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.liveaboardnow.org/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 > -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorised (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the Yorkshire terrier next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, however, by pouring a complete circle of salt around yourself and your computer you can ensure that no harm befalls you and your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg and egg whites, whisk briefly and place it in a warm oven for 40 minutes. Let it stand for 2 hours before icing.
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