What do you want in a tender

[snowleopard]

Having failed to find my ideal tender I'm planning to build one myself. It occurs to me that if it works it might be worth making a few to see if they sell. So - would the team mind telling me what features would be valuable?

 

[Whitelighter]

You missed a key one IMHO which is stability. I dont care if it planes (big boat does that well enough), sails, has wheels (do you boat in really low water areas?) or rows well (if I have to row something is SERIOUSLY wrong) - but I do care if every time I get in the bloody thing it tries to find out if my 100 metre swimming badge was well earnt.

Lightweigt V important though - and I suppose you could add compact!

 

[Becky]

Atchully, while visiting a local swindlery recently, HWMBO was want to comment on the newest type (to my mind, anyway) of tender.

Plastimo have produced a rib-type inflateable with a very rigid inflateable floor, which would be exactly what a friend of ours needs. A stowable tender capable of being driven quite fast with a reasonable outboard that stows away tidily.

We on the other hand will stick with our Avon rover which also has an inflateable floor, but isn't quite as rib-like in design. Still goes well enough.

Sailing tenders are awkward in that they come with a lot of extra space-absorbing gear which takes so long to put up that it never gets used. IMHO, anyway.

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[Blueboatman]

Interesting..I take it that you have tried both the smallest Carribe(which will get up and plane-just-with a 5hp)and the Walker Bay which will do everything else.
Couple of other queries
Should said dinghy be really well fendered on its sides or of such a material as to not bash the topsides and or sugarscoop(Iknow you have a cat and so can moor it differently)?
And can it lug out and lay a second anchor/chain without being all bashed up in the process?

 

[EBunting]

What an inspired subject. By coincidence, I'm planning a feature on the choice of outboards and tender and would be most interested, not to say grateful, for your top 5 considerations in the choice of either. Just as interested, incidentally, in the things you'd avoid at all costs!

Elaine, YW


www.elainebunting.blogspot.com

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

You also missed the dryness of the boat...... not too keen on getting wet while trying to get ashore of an evening (accepting that its difficult to avoid in a blow)

 

[Lakesailor]

This?

I thought we agreed to keep the beautiful naked ladies to the Lounge?

-Keith

 

[Frontier]

I'm with Lakesailor on this one /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[BrendanS]

I bet she has big tits, and is therefore undesirable, but can't tell from this angle. Need more photos

 

[BrendanS]

and while her calves and bum are superb, do I note a little dimpling (osmosis) around her thighs?

This alone should be enough to get every wimmin on the forum up in arms

 

[Lakesailor]

well, I always like a tender behind.

 

[fireball]

Such an inappropriate post to what was a sensible thread has now earnt you the "ignore this user" .... congratulations - you are my first ...

 

[Lakesailor]

Victoria would have approved

Seem to have had a humour breakdown in Chichester.

He used to seem to be a normal person

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Victoria would have approved

actually, I can see why Keith tears his hear out over your postings. While you might think they are amusing, and I would in another forum, they are somewhat out of place here.

 

[Lakesailor]

[ QUOTE ]
and while her calves and bum are superb, do I note a little dimpling (osmosis) around her thighs?

This alone should be enough to get every wimmin on the forum up in arms

[/ QUOTE ] Oh Yeah?

 

[paulrossall]

Lakesailor...Keep on posting. Some folk have a humour bypass!

Stability is the number one requirement as far as I am concerned. I have just bought a Tabur Yak 3 which must be as stable as they come. I will use this on my swinging mooring. On trips I will use/take my Avon.

 

[ShipsWoofy]

Hard tender

1. Able to carry the two of us and dog to boat in safety in most weather, 2 stroke small outboard that can be carried from the boot to the slip and also lifted up to the boat without getting a hernia, so about 2.2hp. None of this planing malarkey, this is the real world, who carries a 15hp motor on the pushpit??

2. Easy enough to manhandle and flip over in compound,

3. Dinghy and outboard to be sufficiently scruffy as not to attract attention, leave the shiny new stuff for the petrol heads.

4. Stability and a well positioned thwart for rowing and stepping up on to the boat.

5. Unsinkable with storage for more delicate equipment out of the weather.

Inflatable, as above but

rolls up small, light weight, easy for one or two people to launch over the rail, indistinct enough to leave and wander ashore. Tatty as hell 2.2hp motor again.

 

[bilbobaggins]

......I've completely forgotten what I was going to say!

Si les jeunesses savait, si les vieillesses pouvait

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[fdmarsden]

Having done some experimentation, I think a central box seat running the whole length of the tender is highly desirable, instead or as well as a central thwart.

Provides:-

Sealable storage.
Buoyancy
longitudinal seat allows fore and aft trim to be adjusted by sitting in the right place.

My rigid tender with 2hp Honda and me at the back sits transom down is slow and makes a lot of wash.

Sit well forward and it is much faster with little wash.

Same trim can be obtained with two, and at eight foot oal I think it too small for four.

 

[bbg]

You can do better than that - remember the tender is supposed to have capacity for four.