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On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:55:55 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
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Cruising around the Abacos with my wife and 15 yr old daughter on my
28' sailboat. I have a home built 2-paw-9 nesting dinghy with oars,
no engine. She sorta fits on the foredeck but must be assembled in
the water as there is not enough room on the foredeck. She rows very
well and my daughter who is in Crew enjoyed rowing us around much to
everyone elses amusement.
However, as we had the furthest mooring from town, rowing to shore is
not something you want to do more'n twice a day. It seems that long
distance rowing will be necessary in the future too with moorings and
anchorages.
Worse, the dinghy really obstructs my forward view on deck and tows
very poorly. So, I gave her away in Marsh Harbor. On to dinghy
experiment #5 (cheap rowing inflatable, hard shell Nautilus,
inflatable kayak, 2-Paw-9) so I would like some ideas. I might be
amenable to having a motor on the dinghy.

The dinghies I see around here have a little kicker on them. The
nicest seem to be small 4 strokes, good on gas, quiet running, no
smoke and still not to heavy to horse around.

There is a company selling a little propane powered kicker but it is
not going to be cheap to run if you are using those coleman cylinders.
That still might be worth it if you don't really use it much and you
don't want to be trying to store gasoline safely and for any period of
time..

Interesting. You could always get an adapter to charge the Coleman tanks
from your 20# tank.