Trip dates:
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Power
new dinghy, first time on the davit
Our new to us smaller and faster cruising boat required a new dinghy. The old dinghy, saved from the sale of our trawler, was 160 lbs by itself and over 260 lbs with outboard, fuel etc. But, we had a crane so the weight mattered not.
The new boat required a lighter and shorter dinghy to get it up on a Hurley davit, manually. Annapolis Inflatables was happy to provide us a new Achilles 270 aluminum RIB and a Torqeedo, seemingly the perfect option for a smaller boat. The Achilles rigged is just over 100 lbs and the Torqeedo is less than 30 so I cut the weight in half!
I picked it up a couple days ago and got it in the water and rigged. I went for a short test run and did the first test load on the Hurley davit.