Tender for Yachts below 50ft. Designing a new concept!

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Dear (future) Boat owner, -Specialist, -Broker, -Enthusiast,

I am a Belgian Master student Industrial Product Development at University of Antwerp and more importantly, a boat enthusiast as well.
I recently started my Master thesis concerning the development of a new concept tender/dinghy for Yachts below 50 ft.

To become a useful design solution it is most important for me to get an accurate understanding and image of the existing use, market, users and problems of the tender/dinghy as they are today.

This vital image can only be drawn with your input.
Therefore, I sincerely count on lots of boating enthusiasm and ask you to spend a few minutes of your time to fill in this form by clicking the link below.
Thanks in advance!

Hope to meet you soon on the water,
Sincerely,


Michiel Vermeylen

master student
Integrated Product Development
University of Antwerp
Belgium


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Done the survey and good luck with the design.

I think you are looking at a very broad range of boats for your design, though. There is a huge difference between, say 18-25 foot yachts and 35-50 foot ones when it comes to tender size, use, and storage possibilities. It's hard to see the same solution working for such very different needs.

Just seen PRVs post and would also say that it is transportation only for me too - all other uses are irrelevant but can't show that.
 
Resolution said:
Good sensible questions. Well done.
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Better than some of the surveys we get here, certainly.

Although the one asking us to rank the uses of our tenders wasn't very well designed. The only thing I use my tender for is transport from boat to shore, all the other suggested uses are equally irrelevant to me. But having moved "transportation" to the top of the list, it then appears from my answers that I use it almost as much for fishing, wakeboarding, and sundry other things which I don't do at all.

Pete
 
I only use the dinghy for getting to and from my boat, very occasional expeditions, and so far, never as a life raft. All the other choices are irrelevant, but with the design of this survey, they get a score.
Also, although I normally row the dinghy (Avon), I do have an outboard, but the survey will not allow two answers. I would say, before trying to design a better(?) dinghy, design a better survey.
 
Done.

I agree about the missing option for multiple answers, e.g., I row my dink in preference to the outboard whenever I can and will also sail it for fun.

One major use for the tender is to socialise on other boats, although I did mention it as 'Other'. No opportunity to say 'not important' in the case of, for example, skiing or wakeboarding.
 
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Had to keep using 'other' to answer questions. No options for rigid dinghy stowed on deck, yet looking around this marina in Azores there are a few long distance boats with rigid dinghys on deck.
 
Thank you very much for all the quick responses but most of all for filling in the survey in the first place!
I do appreciate all the comments above because they are necessary to improve the surveye!
I did change the ranking question with an upgrade that provides the possibility to select the different functions you actually use before ranking them.
 
I have two dinghies, an inflatable and a 'solid' one - the survey doesn't cope with more than one. Neither does it allow for multiple means of propulsion, eg oars and ob or oars and sailing rig.
 
Overall a good survey, I too had to use "other" a few times, but I found it sensible. Very good luck with your study and do feedback your conclusions.
 
Good survey but (a) two jet boat options and no rigid dinghy option and (b) what's meant by using the dinghy n% of the time? If I used my dinghy 100% of the time I'd never go sailing! Did you mean "On how many days?"
 
Done - but as discussed there is little scope for free text comments.

If possible I would like an inflatable tender that (probably by the additional purchase of accessories that increase the functionality) doubles as a liferaft. The basic inflatable would not need expensive checks every 3 years and these would be limited to the liferaft inflation mechanisms and safety kit. This may be pie in the sky but this looks like a bit of academic blue sky thinking that may solve the problem. It seems crazy to have 2 x inflatables on board that are basically similar in function but treated entirely separately.
 
Blue Drifter said:
If possible I would like an inflatable tender that (probably by the additional purchase of accessories that increase the functionality) doubles as a liferaft.
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You mean you want a Tinker Tramp? :)

The dinghy is no longer made either, but the liferaft kit for it went out of production years before because it couldn't come close to meeting any of the standards required of a liferaft. I guess the lack of ballast pockets was the major issue.

Pete
 
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