Frightening but funny!

[LadyInBed]

I saw a fairly large chap in a small inflatable heading down the river on Sunday, nothing in that, but the boat was at 45º and he couldn't see over the bow!
It was fairly gusty, he could have had a dunking if the wind had got under the nose.

 

[Corribee Boy]

No pictures?

 

[James_Calvert]

Sitting almost on top of an outboard?

 

[LadyInBed]

Sitting almost on top of an outboard?

Yes

 

[LadyInBed]

No pictures?

Unfortunately not, too busy laughing.

 

[James_Calvert]

Probably needed a longer kill cord.

 

[Offshore57]

or longer arm........

 

[Stemar]

I good reminder of why a life jacket is more important in the tender than on the yacht. I see the opposite quite often - a couple of big blokes in a little tupperware dinghy with 3" of freeboard heading off up the harbour. Meeting a tug or stinkpotter just off the plane must be, err, interesting.

As a confirmed coward, thanks, but no thanks. I want a water temperature of at least 25 C to go swimming.

 

[johnalison]

I have only had round sterned inflatables and envied those who could sit more centrally. I have been known to fill a 5-gallon water carrier and put it in the bow for balance. A friend of a friend capsized an early Redstart backwards some years ago while fitting the outboard, but he was alongside us at the time. Yes, we did laugh, after rescuing my friend's outboard.

 

[Davy_S]

 

[jimi]

I can get our dinghy planing with its 3.3 mariner by crouching at the front and holding the control at full armslength

 

[Corribee Boy]

I can get our dinghy planing with its 3.3 mariner by crouching at the front and holding the control at full armslength

I do that with my little 3D tender, but if I lock the Honda centrally I can spread eagle myself across the tubes and steer it like a surf board.
Flat water, empty spaces, and kill cord all required ?

 

[ProDave]

 

[Babylon]

I have a friend who thinks he might be a bit stout... and he's been using a short length of 38mm plastic pipe as a tiller extension for years

 

[LadyInBed]

he's been using a short length of 38mm plastic pipe as a tiller extension for years

Same here. ?