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From: Tim Holock (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 10:32:07 EDT
Brad,
Think of it as one of life's small but necessary aggravations, like doing
the dishes. Yes, its a pain, but it becomes routine, just as the act of
anchoring is itself a pain - drop the hook, it drags, pull it up and drop it
again. Once its set and secured you go do the dinghy thing. People use
various methods to mitigate the aggravation: while inshore you tow the
dinghy, some even leave the outboard on when towing, but that creates more
drag than most are happy with. At anchor for several days, you leave the
dinghy, with motor, in the water. If that isn't quite acceptable (fear of
theft, currents bump it against the hull, etc) then make a bridle, pull the
dinghy beside the boat, attach a halyard, and crank the dinghy a foot or so
out of the water, resting against the hull, complete with outboard (assuming
you have a sailboat). If your boat is on the smaller side this creates a
permanent heel, but you get used to it.
Some lifting device to get the outboard onto the dinghy also eases the
pain - depending on the outboard size, lifting it by hand from a rail mount
and onto the dinghy transom can be dangerous, to your health as well as the
outboard's. If your handy, it doesn't have to cost a lot. I rigged a
crane-type device off the side of the wind-generator pole using a discarded
small spinnaker pole, with the lifting line going to a sheet winch - saved a
lot of grief.
Tim Holock
SV Marooned, Endeavour 32
Annapolis
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[mailto:]On Behalf Of Brad
Kingsley
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 9:20 AM
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Subject: lv-ab: Life on the hook - dinghy usage
Not quite "there" yet (planned Spring departure), we have thoughts but don't
know how certain things will play out later.
For example, we plan to spend most of our time at anchor. We also hope that
we will take at least daily trips to shore if for no other reason that to
walk the dog and stretch our legs. (There are three of us plus a large dog.)
But I'm curious to hear from others who stay at anchor most of the time...
how often do you go aboard? I wonder if the "dinghy process" (lowering it,
loading into it, traveling, finding a place to beach/dock it, etc...) is
cumbersome to the point that it prevents most people from going ashore any
more than necessary for supplies, washing, etc..?
I suppose one of many impacting factors would be the size of the dink -
needs to be large enough to comfortable fit 2 adults, 1 child, and a large
dog -- any doing this who can say just how large is "enough"?
Any comments from the group on the above or other things we should consider
are appreciated as always.
thx!
Brad
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