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I believe the failure was due to it spending way too much idle time just sitting in the water and gathering barnacles and other growth. Weakened the joints. I didn't have davits on the Endeavour so I kept it hanging off the stern with the bow tied to the backstay and the aft ends of the pontoons in the water. Not a good mix.
Sam
On Sunday, July 09, 2006, at 10:14AM, <> wrote:
>It was a Bombard Tropic that Sam bought new in August of
>2000. It had very light use.
>
>Vern
>s/v Nirvelli
>
>On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:10:44 -0400
> "Norm of Bandersnatch" <> wrote:
>>
>> Your inflatable must have been an old or light duty
>>boat.
>>
>> Our 10' Caribe has been in daily use, and occasional
>>abuse, since 1997 and
>> is still going strong, albeit with a few patches.
>>
>> It is our shuttle to the shore, and we use it every day
>>as such. Some days
>> it is our pick-up truck hauling everything from piles of
>>provisions (buy
>> big, buy less often), sheets of plywood and other
>>building supplies,
>> various steel and aluminum fabrications, tanks of
>>propane and dinghy gas,
>> large storage batteries (how about a set of four L-16s
>>at 130 lbs each),
>> washer, dryer, freezer, refrigerator, in short -
>>anything that goes on or
>> off a 63' vessel at anchor - with complete safety and
>>stability. With two
>> people (and a clean bottom) it can go 25 Kts. It can
>>plane with three
>> adults aboard (but not with four).
>>
>> It would be impractical to deflate it for transport. In
>>calm waters it
>> hangs on 4x4 davits on the starboard side, at sea we tow
>>it with two lines.
>> I am working on a boom to pick it up and carry it on
>>deck. It weighs about
>> 300 lbs with all its gear.
>>
>> I simply cannot imagine any other type boat that would
>>serve us as well.
>> If it was lost it today, I would buy another exactly
>>like it tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Norm
>> S/V Bandersnatch
>> Lying St Augustine FL
>>
>>> After the inflatable that I got from my brother had a
>>> total failure after only 5 years of very light use
>>>(almost
>>> as little use as his main sail) and the company wouldn't
>>> do anything about it I decided I would never buy another
>>> inflatable. The only reason I could see to have one is
>>>in
>>> really rough seas and then it would have to be a hard
>>> bottom design which really doesn't change the size of
>>>the
>>> dingy at all.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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