"katysails" wrote in message

Our dinghy would sink with a motor on back...it's a very precarious thing,
our dinghy...

I don't recall--is yours a hard dink? A little kicker shouldn't bother it
any, as long as you both don't sit on the transom knees. g

Max

It's a hard shell dink...it is the rolliest, tippiest little thing
around...getting used to it was a wet proposition at times...we have a
system now. First we stow all the stuff, evenly distributed, then I get in
first and sit on the middle seat. Chopper loads next and sits on the floor
between the bow and middle. As Mr Sails boards, I lean forward and as he
slides to the stern I move to the bow. By this time, the waterline is
definitively a lot higher than it was...the thing is only supposed to carry
300 lbs. Mr Sails weighs 200 and Choppie weighs 68, plus the stuff weighs
at least another 20...so that leaves my 12 lbs...if we stuck another 30-40
lbs of engine on the rear, I'd have to gain that much to even us out...

"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"katysails" wrote in message

Our dinghy would sink with a motor on back...it's a very precarious
thing, our dinghy...

I don't recall--is yours a hard dink? A little kicker shouldn't bother it
any, as long as you both don't sit on the transom knees. g

Max

"katysails" wrote in message

It's a hard shell dink...it is the rolliest, tippiest little thing
around...getting used to it was a wet proposition at times...we have a
system now. First we stow all the stuff, evenly distributed, then I get
in first and sit on the middle seat. Chopper loads next and sits on the
floor between the bow and middle. As Mr Sails boards, I lean forward and
as he slides to the stern I move to the bow. By this time, the waterline
is definitively a lot higher than it was...the thing is only supposed to
carry 300 lbs. Mr Sails weighs 200 and Choppie weighs 68, plus the stuff
weighs at least another 20...so that leaves my 12 lbs...if we stuck
another 30-40 lbs of engine on the rear, I'd have to gain that much to
even us out...

It wouldn't be an 8' Walker Bay, would it? Friends had one, and the first
time they attempted to sail it, it sailed itself right under the tiny
wavelets, not unlike the Edmund Fitzgerald. Positive flotation kept if from
sinking, but with two aboard the sailing rig was essentially worthless.

Max