I agree with Jax. Putting the portabote together athwart the cabin top
is a time consuming PIA. With practice, we've gotten it down to 40
min. Having said that, it beats towing. The trade off is that, due to
laziness, we tend not to assemble the dinghy if we are only going to
be in a given port ovenight. Longer stays are worth the effort.




On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:53:11 GMT, wrote:

On 31 Mar 2004 04:38:47 GMT, (JAXAshby) wrote:

It takes me about 20-30 minutes the first time of the season -- mostly
figuring things out again and working against the stiffness. After that,
it's 10-15 minutes to set up or down

all things in a pile on the shore, yup.

On the deck on my boat with seats, transom down below along with bolting
hardwar, plus engine on the rear pulpit of my boat, plus the gas tank for the
o/b engine, plus safety gear, plus rigging the harness to lift the Porta-Bote
off my boat, plus lowering the bote, plus all else, well the time is a mite
longer than on shore.


Sounds more like you are very disorganized and inept. It would take you an hour
to get any dinghy in the water, based on your descriptiion.

BB