Thanks for all your suggestions. We'll be spending the whole Winter in
Baja and will be exploring different areas. The beaches will vary from
hard packed sand, to loose sand to rocky/shelly areas. (It's been
several years since we've been there so I'm trying to remember exactly
what the beaches were like).

The tires that we just received are 10" pneumatic tires that are @4"
wide. We're thinking of mounting them on the transom and juryrig a way
to lock them in the down position for launching (and then fold up when
not needed). Tires were only $4.99 each so if we can't make them
workable, we won't have lost much. I've looked at the commercially
available launching wheels (on the web) and they cost a whole bunch
more than that.

I'd really like to have wheels that work well enough that I'll feel
happy launching the boat whenever we feel the whim. Kinda silly
carrying a boat that far that I'll keep finding excuses NOT to launch
the boat.

We're figuring on toting the boat down uninflated. Once inflated in
Baja, we plan to either try to fig a way to carry the inflated boat
upright at the rear of the RV or (probably) tie it on top of our towed
car.

We won't be leaving till it starts getting cold up here in NE
Washington...but I'm already starting to get excited. I had been a
little nervous knowing I'll have to do everything myself (hubby can
walk a little...enough to get in/out of the boat...but not enough to
count on for help.) The 3rd member of our family, "Princess" (a German
Shepherd/Rotweiller mix we think) will also be travelling with us. I
just finished making "floorboards" for the raft out of some old thin
lexan we had. The floor is an air floor and we were afraid that sharp
toe nails would be a problem.

Sandy