Dinghys

[Dolphin]

Yes they do, or waterways. Are you thinking what I'm thinking B2?

[Phillip]

You blokes have got it all wroung, I use when I can a OP's dinghy. Don't have to store it, dosn't bang the boat at night and I get picked up and dropped off at the boat and usually I don't have to row!



Other than that I use a 2.4m inflatable which I store [deflated] on the cabin roof or across the stern seat. During wet stormy weather at anchor I also lash it down on the foredeck so I can open the forward hatch a bit. Being a bit longer/larger I have a 3.5hp outboard for those longer trips.

[bearmcnally]

Hi Hatters ,I use an old Manly Junior easy to row except it skids out a little ? and tows like a mad cow ! kids can still sail it .Have a 6'0' lamoore dinghy called "PIG" and it lives on top of the carport roof ? Glassed a skeg onto it's bottom to make it more stable ...? .It still lives on the carport roof !

BEAR

[Gramps]

Hello Sailors!
I had a little 6 footer from Lamoore's with a clinker type hull. fine entry, high bow and two rowing positions. It was light enough to carry, rowed beautIfully when trimmed by using the correct seating position and towed like a dream without veering. Unfortunately the guy who had Azzura during my period of being laid up on the hard before I got her back sold the dinghy to buy a 7 footer for the extra capacity (read wife). I have an inflatable stowed in the cockpit locker (two lockers on a Mark 1 ), but that is for emergency or other use, I prefer a dinghy I can leave ashore or on the mooring when I sail without it being stolen.
I got my current dighy through the Canoe Warehouse at Artarmon. It is also a 6 footer with a single chine, a more full entry than the Lamoore - but not a pram which I do not like because they ship chop over the bow and this dinghy copes with that. I did not expect it to row or tow as well as my original little Lamoore job (they are not available now) but it is much better than expected and it has a flat bottom that gives it more stability getting in and out from the yacht than the original clinker type hull, so I am quite pleased with the general handling. It has good freeboard and the 6 foot oars lie diagnally within the dinghy when it lies astern. It doesn't seem to have the habit of charging up to the boat in a breeze and attacking the transom either! Neither of the two dinghies will fit on the foredeck as Azzura is rigged with a baby stay and no forward lowers so the aft end of the dinghy cannot sit over the forward hatch unless the baby stay is released. Otherwise, the little beast has turned out to be better than I imagined, but rowing two up would be cramped. Not a problem for me I am happy to say!

Sean
AZZURA

[Miker]

I'll put a vote in for the inflatables. Mine is about 2.5 metres long and is light enough for me to row two up, or for longer trps, I use a wee outboard. If I'm going on a weekend up to Lake Mac, I leave the outboard behind and haul the dinghy up on the foredeck. The drawback here is that you have to get it out of the way to grab a mooring or jetty.

Stability is brilliant, and you can get back into it easily if you go over. Before we had a boarding ladder, we used to clamber into the dinghy, then aboard the boat if we went swimming.

I don't deflate it either, I leave it fully inflated and carry it on the roof of the car, but don't leave it on my mooring. I always tow it around Pittwater.

[Dolphin]

This is the dinghy I use when going away.

Felicites dinghy with a mind of its own

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Also note the bolts through the rowlocks, makes rowing easy.

[bearmcnally]

Hey Mr Greg you photograph so well ?

Bear

[storm petrel]

Skipper rowing First Mate(185kg net displacement) in the 5'6" Lamoore Dinghy before I gave it to a buddy who had lost his tender. Every trip in the dinghy was an 'adventure'.

[Dolphin]

Mark, i thought you were a nice bloke, fancy giving one of them away to a Buddy !!!
I gave my old Manly Juniour to Bear.

[Dolphin]

This is a manly junior fitted out as a dinghy.

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