Boatworld Tenders and/or Inflatable V floor tenders any experience?

[Minerva]

firstly, I plan to replace our old Seago tender this winter - spent the whole season chasing punctures - think after over 10 years it's time to retire it.

Looking on the net, boatworld seem very competitive for inflatable tenders - looks like they drop ship them from China. I've seen a couple tied up this season and the look decent enough - has anyone any experience with them? Are they OK in use / deal with being dragged up the odd beach?

Secondly, a few tenders these days seem to have a hard V floor by way of inflatable chambers, built in the same way as inflatable SUP's. Going by how rigid our SUP's are in use, I imagine these will offer significant improvement over an inflatable sausage under a low pressure inflatable floor my incumbent seago has and will plane much more readily with my 5hp 2stroke. have you found this to be the case?

thanks

 

[RogerJolly]

My new Seago 2.4 has what sounds like your low pressure floor and sausage arrangement. Wouldn't call it squashy though. It gets pretty hard using the high pressure option on the normal footpump and seems to stiffen the whole thing up nicely (hard to judge exact contribution of the floor/keel as I've never had it not blown up). Only have 2 HP so not sure if it would plane - don't see why not. Faster than the old round tail no-floor Avon.