tokoloshe
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Blonde or Brunette?
What Inflatable?
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cmedsailor
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Maybe I was just unlucky, or maybe it's true that you get what you pay for.
I bought a cheap Lalizas inflatable (not use it often so I didn't want to pay much money for it), it was alaways covered under the hot Med sun, little use in general and now 3 years after I am throwing it away. It seems that they have used the worst quality of glue available in the planet. Even the transom (not sure if this is the correct word) came apart (plus everything else that was glowed on the boat).
I am very reluctant buying again a cheap tender. On the other hand I wouldn't like to buy a very expensive one for so much little use. Somewhere in the middle is ideal.
Even saying this, I fancy a lot a hondawave. Their PVC quality (and glue) looks very good. But they are expensive.
I bought a cheap Lalizas inflatable (not use it often so I didn't want to pay much money for it), it was alaways covered under the hot Med sun, little use in general and now 3 years after I am throwing it away. It seems that they have used the worst quality of glue available in the planet. Even the transom (not sure if this is the correct word) came apart (plus everything else that was glowed on the boat).
I am very reluctant buying again a cheap tender. On the other hand I wouldn't like to buy a very expensive one for so much little use. Somewhere in the middle is ideal.
Even saying this, I fancy a lot a hondawave. Their PVC quality (and glue) looks very good. But they are expensive.
Playtime
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charles_reed
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I'm not surprised - nothing but a hypalon/neoprene dinghy will last in areas of high UV - and that rules out any of the cheaper Decitex ones.
charles_reed
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My experience with Lazilas' products has been uniformly disappointing. As it happens they are a Greek company.
cmedsailor
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charles_reed;As it happens they are a Greek company.[/QUOTE said:
Lodesman77
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Another for the Excel 235, big tubes/smaller boat combination is a significant feature.
Their comparison table could prove useful:- http://www.excel-inflatables.co.uk/pg_inflatable.php
Their comparison table could prove useful:- http://www.excel-inflatables.co.uk/pg_inflatable.php
maby
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3D Tenders are amazingly light and pack small.They have not been on the market for very long, so life expectancy is not proven. To be so much lighter than the competition, something must give and I doubt they will last anything like as long as an Avon or similar, but a long lived tender that is too big to store and to heavy to launch is not much use. We had a heavy traditional tender that was never used - the 3D Tender is often in the water.