On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:47:33 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Bruce" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:54:30 -0500, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Bruce" wrote in message
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Dinghy Dock? And you've spent all this time nattering on about Marinas
and now you admit to anchoring off to avoid paying dockage and then
sneaking into the dinghy dock??


More proof that you never go anywhere. If you were a real cruiser you
would
use dinghy docks regularly when anchored in distant harbors. What do YOU
do?
Haul your dinghy ashore on private property? Probably. Some dinghy docks
charge a small fee and some are free - either way trying to change the
subject about the stupidity of having long oars protruding over the ends
or
sides of a dinghy just won't cut the mustard.

Wilbur Hubbard

Err... What "distant harbours are you referring to? The places I
anchor don't have "dinghy docks", they only have a beach. Private
property? Whatever are you talking about, there is no one there but
me.

Ah Willie... the penny drops - you are talking about the coast of
Florida. Not the far flung harbors and bays of the world. But I do
suppose that reading books give one a bit of a restricted viewpoint.

By the way, Willie-boy, the secret of not having your oars stick out
of your dinghy isn't to cut the oars off, a much better solution is to
build a longer dinghy.

Oh, but I forgot, you lack the skills to built a dinghy so you buy a
"rubber duck".

Cheers,

Bruce




Where did you ever get that rubber duck nonsense? I can't abide an
inflatable because they are more properly named a "deflatable." My dingy is
a six-foot bluff bow pram with a relaxed 'V' entry. It is constructed of GRP
and weighs only fifty pounds empty. It can be rowed fast and efficiently
with six-foot oars or motored with at 2hp outboard. It is light enough for
me to lift out of the water, turn upside-down and secure to my custom,
stainless steel stern pushpit for rough water and ocean cruising. For inland
and sheltered waters I tow it astern but to do so otherwise is not very
seamanlike.

Yes, I did look at your photo of sunset over the mangrove swamps that
included a bit of your dinghy. Your custom stern davits are not of the
off shore cruising type. Too flimsy. In fact I don't believe I know
anyone who starts an offshore voyage with the dinghy on aft davits.
Too easy to get the dingy full of water and busted loose. Most
experienced people get it up on deck and bottom up and tied down
before heading out. Aft stern davits are for when you get there and
are using the dinghy every day. Never for off shore trips.


I suppose you don't use your dinghy for anything but visiting secluded
beaches because you live at a dock and have all your groceries, water, fuel,
etc. delivered? Some sailor. We real sailors use our dinghies to ferry
supplies from the shore to the mother ship. Dinghy docks are the preferred
loading points as they are generally provided by the purveyors of said
supplies. Living aboard at a dock is just plain disgusting and depraved.
It's tantamount to trying to kayak down Mt. Everest. Wrong tool for the
wrong place.

Yes, I lived at anchor in the Singapore straits for several years. Not
only did I dinghy back and forth to the boat but lugged all my
provisions some 20 miles by bus, another 5 miles to the island by
speed boat and finally by dinghy to the boat, and if you find hauling
groceries out to a boat as something to rhapsodize over then you are a
far stranger individual then I've previously encountered.


Pah! You are no cruising sailor. Everything you write demonstrates that
fact.

Wilbur Hubbard



Cheers,

Bruce