Dinghy/ tender size?

[Rum_Pirate]

Vessel is a Corsair F-27 trimaran

what size dinghy is best ?

Use: shore to F-27 100 yards with 4 adults.

Power : 2.5hp Tohatsu outboard.

 

[B27]

Do you take it with you or leave it on the mooring?

Do you need to handle it on land?

A 4 person dinghy is a heavy thing for one person to lift and stow.

Some hard dinghies are pretty light for their size, aluminum is popular over your way?

All boats are compromises, tenders more so!

 

[lustyd]

We have a 2 year old Cadet 2.7m aluminium floor. It’s fine for 4 adults in calm conditions but with about a foot of chop recently we took significant water over the bow and everyone was soaked. That was wind over tide at Itchenor in maybe a F5.

I know that doesn’t answer your question but it’s some data that might help. As a side note I strongly recommend against the Cadet/Bombard tenders for various reasons previously posted on here. They’re not well designed or good material choices although reasonably built.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

If it’s to take on board, it’ll need to be an air floor boat, as light as possible, 2.7 or larger I would say. For those that don’t know the boat, what you do is lift the tender onto a trampoline. It can either stay there inverted if it’s not too far, and no spinnaker work is involved, or deflate it and put it on the cabin top aft of the mast. The dagger board prevents you putting it further forward. Theoretically you could carry a solid or semi rigid boat on the tramp, but in practise it gets in the way a lot. Plus you have to get it on board without damaging the rear beam.

 

[lustyd]

Not intuitive but the alu is lighter than the air floor for the Cadet (only one I’ve checked like for like). Harder to store maybe but weight is lighter. If storing assembled I’d go aluminium floor every time.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Not intuitive but the alu is lighter than the air floor for the Cadet (only one I’ve checked like for like). Harder to store maybe but weight is lighter. If storing assembled I’d go aluminium floor every time.

I would too, but for us, an assembled/inflated boat would compromise the spinnaker too much. We never went even from HISC to Bembridge without deflating the tender. It’s fine if you’re just moving anchorages under engine, just not really sailing. The extra 3ft of length and 5ft of beam we have with the 920 makes a huge difference there.

 

[Bouba]

Four is a lot of people in a small dingy....always imagine the situation when the outboard motor fails and you need to row. Suddenly space is a premium or you end up with the unsatisfactory situation of two people attempting to paddle

 

[mrangry]

I also have this quandry as last week we had 6 on board and a labrador. I have an old honda marine 3.8 dinghy which has seam leaks so was using a seago 2.4. It was a real chore doing three trips to get everyone ashore

 

[billyfish]

I have a 10 foot hard tender with wheels if you intend to leave it on the mooring, just around the corner £400 ono also a 2hp yamaha for £100

 

[Chiara’s slave]

These are the reasons we like to park in 2 ft of water. If we know that is happening we don’t bother taking the tender.

 

[Neeves]

If it is only 100 yards - why not make more than one trip

Thew return journey is hardly so far that anyone waiting on shore will be lonely.

It seems your condemning yourself to a 4 person dinghy when you could use a 2 or 3 person dinghy. I'd invest in the 2 person dinghy.

Jonathan

 

[Chiara’s slave]

If it is only 100 yards - why not make more than one trip

Thew return journey is hardly so far that anyone waiting on shore will be lonely.

It seems your condemning yourself to a 4 person dinghy when you could use a 2 or 3 person dinghy. I'd invest in the 2 person dinghy.

Jonathan

Not only that, but he might well be able to bring an F boat back to the dinghy launch point to load people and beer. Its not like the water is cold for their toes