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Dingy
cavelamb himself wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote: One of my money earning hobbies is building dinghies. I designed and built several 8 ft glass over plywood boats that will carry three adults (well, skinny ones) quite safely in any weather I want to be out in a dinghy. They aren't as light as a rubber duck but they are light enough that I can pick one up by my self. Local made rubber dinghies are running a bit over $1,000 here and I can build glass over plywood boat for about a third of that. Now that would be interesting. Do you have any more info on them you can share? I would't mind building my own. (I suspect postage on something like that would be a bit over the top.) But we would have to work out a way to swing it aboard first. I have never liked outboard motors, a RIB was out of the question. We have a dinghy that I designed & built, and consider it as close to perfect for our uses as could be: it is very easy to row, stable, and looks like a classic lapstrake pulling boat. No one has mentioned it yet, but an outboard means storing gasoline on board. The big boat has a diesel engine and diesel generator. Besides the flammability issue, there is the simple problem of logistics of having a second kind of fuel to stow. A good rowing boat - maybe with a simple sail for the longer pulls? http://www.microcruising.com/ding1.htm http://www.simplicityboats.com/summerbreezetemp.html http://www.pelinplans.co.nz/canoes_dinghies_plans.htm And the one I like http://www.riparia.org/rachel.html G |
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