Dinghy bag - diy suggestions please

[Yeoman_24]

I have a standard, 2.7m inflatable dinghy with 4 slats across the floor. Deflates and folds down as normal but a but unwieldy for 2 or us to handle.
Any suggestions for a diy bag with straps / handles to help with moving about, or suggestions for something already made which could be adapted ?

 

[sarabande]

Builder's bags are 1 metre cube. More than enough for an inflatable. Lots of handles, neatly located so that you can put a pair of oars through them and carry the dinghy, palanquin-style.


A dual use is as a sea anchor or flopper stopper.

 

[NormanS]

I have a standard, 2.7m inflatable dinghy with 4 slats across the floor. Deflates and folds down as normal but a but unwieldy for 2 or us to handle.
Any suggestions for a diy bag with straps / handles to help with moving about, or suggestions for something already made which could be adapted ?

If you PM me, I can possibly help you.

 

[lw395]

I have a standard, 2.7m inflatable dinghy with 4 slats across the floor. Deflates and folds down as normal but a but unwieldy for 2 or us to handle.
Any suggestions for a diy bag with straps / handles to help with moving about, or suggestions for something already made which could be adapted ?

For my second boat, I made a bag for the inflatable from an old dinghy mainsail.
It laces up and squeezes the Bombard into the right size and shape to go in the locker.

 

[Yeoman_24]

If you PM me, I can possibly help you.

Pm’d. Thanks

 

[Spyro]

I keep my seago dinghy in an old sail bag, after sucking the air out and using the painter to keep it wrapped up tight.
The original seago bag disintegrated after 2 seasons on deck.

 

[William_H]

A bag can be made of any fabric available like an old sail or sail cover fabric. It would need top be fairly robust but light enough to be sewn by your sewing machine. Hand holds can be easily attached by sewing in webbing if necessary right under the bag and out the other side. It seems to me however that the trick will be to design with a big opening so dinghy can be stuffed in easily but able to be compressed perhaps by lacing through eyelets to pull the package together. Perhaps the solid parts could be slipped into another bag. good luck and have fun with that sewing machine. olewill

 

[prv]

I'm surprised nobody has suggested the Zodiac / Bombard style of "bag" - really more of a sheet that buckles around the rolled dinghy, with the two open ends then closed with flaps and drawcords. Should be quite easy to make, it's easier to use than trying to slide an imperfectly-rolled dinghy through the opening of an enclosed bag, and the straps and buckles on it help keep the package as compact as possible.

This is the type I mean, though I can't find a good picture of it open, which would show how it's made:

Pete

 

[ShinyShoe]

First question is really what is the bag doing?

Is it to store it / protect it? Compress it to get it in a locker? Or handle it to and from the car?

 

[Yeoman_24]

First question is really what is the bag doing?

Is it to store it / protect it? Compress it to get it in a locker? Or handle it to and from the car?

..... all of the above

 

[coaster63]

I'm surprised nobody has suggested the Zodiac / Bombard style of "bag" - really more of a sheet that buckles around the rolled dinghy, with the two open ends then closed with flaps and drawcords. Should be quite easy to make, it's easier to use than trying to slide an imperfectly-rolled dinghy through the opening of an enclosed bag, and the straps and buckles on it help keep the package as compact as possible.

This is the type I mean, though I can't find a good picture of it open, which would show how it's made:

Pete

these sort of bags seem the norm these days & are great for packing into as small as possible,but for deck stowage don't last long as the webbing straps they use disintegrates in no time UV , I've replaced straps with old seat belts hopefully UV resistant

 

[ashtead]

Had one of those wrap around bags for our dinghy and fell apart fairly quickly. We had a large duffle bag style with a drawstring made in a plastic type material at local chandlers and is very robust although if strapped to deck it does leave blue marks so if looking for a replacement bag consideration might be given to whether the bag will mark decks as well as rotting straps . We now keep the No1 dinghy in the locker deflated and lift on a halliard out of its berth when required and it serves to lift the height of locker base for crates etc. I would expect material is readily avialable and could be DIY if you had a suitable sewing machine but sadly we lack such facilities . No2 dinghy is still in its original Sego supplied bag which seems to have survived better.

Maybe Zodiac ones are of better quality though?

 

[Seashoreman]

Have you looked in the For Sale section? There is a Honwave valise for sale for £20 today, not sure if that would be the sort of thing you mean?

 

[davidmh]

I have an Avon redcrest 1979 vintage . The original bag is still good it is made from green duck canvas. It bloody difficult to get the dinghy to go into it but the material is fine ans easy to sew on a domestic machine. Can you still get the old duck canvas.

David MH