Dingy

please send me an email with the price.

Its a 361 Silverton 13 foot beam.
 
I do the same thing as Britanic on my Silverton 34C, mercury 270 air deck, lift over bow, myself or two people, very easy. Bow gets lashed to the windlass and rope from the side to the stanchions. Motor braket on port side between ladder and side of the boat.

Sea Esta 34C
 
I must be one of the few people who prefers a hard dinghy. They are cheaper than inflatables. Last far longer. I've had mine since 1988. Much tougher than inflatables. They will take a beating from rocks & children that an inflatable would never stand up to. Generally they row better than an inflatable making them a great toy/learning tool for kids. They tow better than inflatables.

Not that many negatives. Some complain about weight. They are not that much heavier. Inflatables are more stable. Generally no argument there but many hard dinghys with hulls like a mini Whaler or the Livingston Cats are pretty good.

Transom storage without expensive davit systems is usually easy enough provided you don't have one of those weird euro transoms.
 
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Agree, don't tow. Buy a good small inflatable. If you want a dinghy which will plane, then the Air deck/floor is good, but you need a good high pressure pump (Bravo 12 HPP) and at least 6--better 8 hp. = weight. We carry dinghies in the 8 to 8.5 foot range, with slat floor, weight in the mid 30 lbs, and a 2.5 to 3.5 hp outboard, with weight in the low 30's. It only takes a few minutes to inflate when you arrive at the destination--also easy to hoist the light inflatable aboard any size boat.

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Bob,

We don't have any problems towing the dinghy with bow up on swim platform. The SeaRay has a very low platform and with the dinghy pulled up where just the dinghy stern cones are in the water. It doesn't jump around much, even when we cruise at 22~25mph. The low platform and the dinghy bow side rings tied to the 2 stern rings I installed at 45 degrees from the dinghy bow creates a moderatly stable tow. The dinghy is small and light which also helps. Granted we don't generally go into heavy seas and if we were to do such I would pull the dinghy up on the swim platform sideways and tie off...or tie off on the bow which BTW is a perfect fit where the sundeck goes. The sundeck tie downs are used to tie the dinghy down. This was the orginal intent until I discovered the slight forward view blockage which I didn't like.

I don't think this dinghy bow on the swim platform arrangement would work as well for a higher swim platform boat and/or a bigger/heavy dinghy.
 
Isn't there some rule about obscuring your name and hailing port on the transom? When you say you store it vertically, wouldn't it do that?
 
I'm a hard dingy guy too. For years I kept a portaboat folded up on the foredeck on my 30' Sea Ray Looked like a surfboard. Didn't obstruct forward vision. Found there were times when even 10 minutes to assemble and then haul onto foredeck and disassemble was too much (or I got older). Now I keep it assembled on the swim platform. I find I use it more. The beam is less than an inflatable so it doesn't obstruct the view from the cockpit. I use a modified weaver mount.
 
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Isn't there some rule about obscuring your name and hailing port on the transom? When you say you store it vertically, wouldn't it do that?

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Some folksk paint the name of the boat on the bottom of the dinghy... Might be required on documented vessels but state-registered boats aren't even required to have a name, so what's there to obscure?
 
Willie,

I was told same because the dinghy blocks the name of the documented boat, whereas the state ID is on the bow.
 
Starry, any pics of the system on the old Carver?

Your Montego is pretty close to the Mariner.

Maybe we'll use it when come down for our visit 4th of July
 
For the price of a 36 footer they didn't provide a place to stow a dink????

One "trick" is to run the painter through about 10' of PVC pipe, so you have a "rigid" link from the stern cleat to the bow of the dink. This will keep the painter out of the prop and if backing down will hold the dink off to one side of the boat. While I don't normally use the method it DOES work.
 
I'm going to add a dissenting opinion here. Towing an inflatable boat can work fine in protected waters and the right boat. We tow an Achilles LEX-96 with a proper bridle from a 26' single screw inboard boat. Keeping the line short and the towed boat close to the transom we can back the boat just fine. I can do this easily while single-handing the boat because my helm station isn't that far from the transom.

I don't think I'd try this with outdrives.
 
I wish I could find more pictures of different swin platform/dingy set-ups.

No boats in out Marina have dingys mounted.

We also have pretty short side fingers, So we can't use anything which sticks to far out the back.
 
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