Adding Stability to (Hard) Tender

[lw395]

If you think a rigid pram dinghy is as stable to stand on as an inflatable, you are are clearly not sailing on planet earth; what are the mooring and haul-out fees like there ?!

When I say Pram, I should have been clearer, you want a boxy fairly flat bottomed thing for lots of form stability.
A cross between a dory and an optimist if you see what I mean.

Not just a faux clinker thing with a blunt bow.

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

That is a really nice dinghy.

Thank you! I wanted a tender that looked like a proper boat so I sat down and designed one to suit my needs. The 'lands' serve as stiffeners for the hull. What admirers of inflatables do not seem to appreciate is that as soon as one side of a boat is forced under the weight of the other side acts as a righting moment to prevent that from happening. There is not much righting moment on a typical inflatable, especially in the smaller sizes (Murphy is only 204cms long) and many times have I seen them literally rolling around the tube that is being stepped upon when the person who is boarding is not quick enough to get his weight in the middle.

My only regret is that I did not mould more for the many people who were (almost) begging me to. I still kept the moulds though.