Congratulations on not closing up shop and continuing to enjoy life and
the water.

I agree about the air floor inflatables. I love them. I have a bombard
small boat and my dinghy is a Achilles LSI 102 -- but that really wants
a bigger engine than the two horsepower my son and I putz around in.

Like anything else, the bigger the boat, the better (and safer the
ride). Check on the web, call around and you may find as I did that the
weight penalty is not significant between the smallest and mid sized
inflatable boats.

One other thing to consider is one of those wheely devices specifically
set up to wheel inflatables around:

http://www.allinflatables.com/shoppi...om/wheels.html

or a handtruck from http://www.handtruckstore.com/

Finally, I have purchased inflatable boats from Defender on-line (soon
you will be able to buy 2004 models at a discount) www.defenderus.com/
and from the Inflatable Boat Specialists
http://www.inflatableboats.net/index.shtml

harlan

In article ,
Tamaroak wrote:

The air-floor inflatables are the lightest. I have a 9'2" Severn that
weghs 77# and handles a 5 hp outboard. It will plane with just me in it
and I wegh 225#. These used to be sold by BoatUS but are not around any
more, although I know there are others.

Capt. Jeff

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To respond, obviously drop the "nospan"?