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porta-bote or inflatable?
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. |
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porta-bote or inflatable?
you know, one of the things I have begun to notice is that everyone who says
they put a bote together and get it in the water in a short time are doing it with two people, not one. Also, except for bb, everyone says they have all the seats/transom/outboard/oarss/pins/pfd's/anchor/safety equipment right at hand. |
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porta-bote or inflatable?
If there are two people there, shouldn't both of them
help? and if one person is doing it, it takes longer Why would you want to do it any other way? because I don't want to store all that stuff in a pile on deck? |
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porta-bote or inflatable?
grandma, you have a bigger boat than I do.
If there are two people there, shouldn't both of them help? and if one person is doing it, it takes longer Probably true, but I doubt if it takes 3 times as long if one is reasonably efficient. Why would you want to do it any other way? because I don't want to store all that stuff in a pile on deck? Having all the stuff gathered in one place does NOT equal to storing it in a pile on the deck. It's like anything else that you store. You put all the things that go together into a storage place together. You put the things you use a lot on the top of things you only use once in a blue moon. We have all the oil and antifreeze and engine stuff in one locker. We don't store tuna fish cans in there with it. We have all the dishes and pots and pans in one place and we don't put misc. tools in there. All the bread and paper products go in another locker (light stuff together) and if we have heavier stuff it goes on the bottom. Bob has made several canvas bags and they keep things together that need to stay together. Of course he's a big advocate of a place for everything and everything in its place. He's got a pegboard in the garage with outlines on it of the tools that go there. grandma Rosalie |
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porta-bote or inflatable?
grandma, you have a bigger boat than I do.
If there are two people there, shouldn't both of them help? and if one person is doing it, it takes longer Probably true, but I doubt if it takes 3 times as long if one is reasonably efficient. Why would you want to do it any other way? because I don't want to store all that stuff in a pile on deck? Having all the stuff gathered in one place does NOT equal to storing it in a pile on the deck. It's like anything else that you store. You put all the things that go together into a storage place together. You put the things you use a lot on the top of things you only use once in a blue moon. We have all the oil and antifreeze and engine stuff in one locker. We don't store tuna fish cans in there with it. We have all the dishes and pots and pans in one place and we don't put misc. tools in there. All the bread and paper products go in another locker (light stuff together) and if we have heavier stuff it goes on the bottom. Bob has made several canvas bags and they keep things together that need to stay together. Of course he's a big advocate of a place for everything and everything in its place. He's got a pegboard in the garage with outlines on it of the tools that go there. grandma Rosalie |
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porta-bote or inflatable?
If there are two people there, shouldn't both of them
help? and if one person is doing it, it takes longer Why would you want to do it any other way? because I don't want to store all that stuff in a pile on deck? |
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