I have gotten some good use out of my home builtTwo-Paw-9 nesting
dinghy and thought I'd pass on some perspective on it. She rows well
although not quite as well as the old Nautilus 8. She is easy to
assemble and light enough to handle. I can pick up one half, drop it
in the water (rope attached) and then drop other half in water, get
into back half and insert bolts and oars and seats and away I go. She
has plenty of capacity. She is easy to hoist back on deck using only
muscle power (no hoisting with the halyard)and disassembles easily to
store nested on the foredeck of my 28' S2 sailboat.
The only problem is that like the old Nautilus, she is hard to see over
so that I have to stand to see directly ahead. This means that often I
just yaw the boat from side to side instead of standing. This is
similar to having a deck sweeping genoa blocking your view.
Not a perfect dinghy solution, but better than the Nautilus 8.