Dinghy, stowing, or towing?

[Nessy]

Good Evening!

Due to the design and size of our seahorse, Benetau Antares 9.80, we (69+68) have no davits and stow our dinghy and the outbord engine in the lazarette under the aft deck.

It‘s always a struggle to take the dinhgy out of the lazarette, to inflate it, to fix the 2,5 HP Suzuki.

My thoughts are about towing or stowing on the foredeck.

The former owner fixed the dinghy with special hooks after the rear panel, but removed this, as he could not use after door to walk on the pontoon.

What’s more, the bonnet wouldn’t close anymore.

Due to I have no experience with this items, I hope to get some advice from the forum members how to manage this.

In advance many thanks for your input!

Cordially!

Stefan

MY Nautic, WYC Wiesbaden Yacht Club, currently Barneville-Careret/Normandy

 

[Nessy]

I want to add, the dinghy is a no name chinese type, 2,5 m long with an air bottom.

 

[Arcady]

If you can live without the transom door access, then the Weaver snap davits or similar would seem to be the best solution.

 

[Phil_boat]

I’d go for snap davits too but I’m not in Normandy and don’t moor stern to…

We have to store ours under the cockpit and it is a bit of a faff but having an outboard makes any kind of davits a pain.

 

[Boathook]

Store the dinghy on the platform lifted up and invest in a foldable step for on the pontoon (tie to the boat) and enter boat through the side.

Foldable step https://www.screwfix.com/p/essentials-plastic-1-step-220mm-folding-step-stool-with-platform/5076p I've seen them in different heights elsewhere or even a fender step.