Salvaging upturned dinghy with engine ( video)

Good on you for dealing with a difficult job so calmly and without (audible) swearing ! I am full of admiration.

Was it a heavy gust of wind that flipped the dinghy ? Any ideas about how to prevent if happening again ? Perhaps having an anchor underneath it suspended from a strop to each of the rowlocks ?
 
Very well done. Couldn't see on the video, but if it were me I think I'd have tied a line around the leg first just in case the OB dropped off the dinghy whilst lifting it. Maybe you did though. Again, well done you.
 
Good job. Speaking as some who's 3.3 Mariner o/b once suffered an unplanned diving excursion ...:o
If I may? The next time you can lay your hands on an empty trigger/spray type plastic bottle, Mr Muscle type thing, hang onto it. Instead of dunking the salty outboard I found clamping it on the rail and attacking it with a squirty bottle full of fresh water did the trick, without having to wrestle the thing upside down into a container of fresh water..One full bottle on mist and jet spray did the trick, plus of course as you did, a gently toasted spark plug..:D
 
Aquarella said:
After the last storm here in Greece my dinghy turned turtle with the engine on. I managed to film my trial and error rescue operation. I might not have done everything right but but it's the end result that counts isn't it?
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Excellent well done , I'm sure the captain would be very proud,

just a note but it's worth pulling electrical connectors apart one at a time and coating them with Vaseline or similar, it will prevent any further corrosion and future problems from the dunking
 
ribrage said:
Excellent well done , I'm sure the captain would be very proud,

just a note but it's worth pulling electrical connectors apart one at a time and coating them with Vaseline or similar, it will prevent any further corrosion and future problems from the dunking
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I thought she is the captain!
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I've been looking at some of your other videos. Great vids, great scenery, great paintings! Like most of us you're learning as you go. Well done.
 
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but surely the main lesson to be learned, is not to leave the dinghy with the engine on it, and without having the oars and seat secured. Glad you got the outboard going again with so little trouble.
 
Well done

If I could be so bold as to offer some advice about starting an outboard out of the water, only let it run for a few seconds. Letting it run for longer will burn out the water cooling impellor. It will melt in its housing when run dry.
 
+1 all the above

I have same o/b and similar boat, now in Italy Bet she was glad it was the yam 2 stroke and not a godawful 4 stroke - twice the weight and full of suppurating oil.

1) never leave the o/b on the dingy if there might be a storm, or the oars, or the useless seat
2) to run motor not in sea, remove prop (pull the split pin & save the shearpin) and stand the motor in bucket of water (fresh water if end of season flush)
3) I dont bother with complicated hoist, I have a 2M long line permanently attached to the clamp, and which has a carabine on the free end,
first I clip the carabine onto the pushpit, then I just lift the ob off the transome and lay it flat in the dingy, then go aboard and pull up by the bit of line
The yam only weighs 9Kg. Mounting is the exact reverse procedure.

Also, I never tow the dingy, always worth plopping it on the foredeck, and if I leave it in the water at night I tie it alongside.
 
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