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Originally Posted by Mara Mae
I would love to know about passaging with dinghy in davits. Thanks
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As GILow said, there are a lot of discussion on this topic already. That being said, it depends on a lot of factors, the size of your
boat, the size of your davits, the size of your dinghy, how high the davits carry the dinghy, your confidence in your
weather windows, etc. In general, on passages where you might run into unexpected bad
weather (which usually means
offshore passages over 4 days), you probably want to strap the dinghy to the foredeck, since it could be very dangerous to try to move it from the davits to the foredeck after the weather hits.
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Originally Posted by arsenelupiga
that is my plan. To buy 9.9 hp 2 or 4 stroke. However so far, we found no need for it and happy with T 1003 as primary outboard. I may change my opinion but so far really enjoying many advantages of electric motor. We didnt find any need that would need to travel more than 3 nm one way at ~3kn so far. Only thing i have second thoughts is in croc country. Would prefer something noisier. Last thing i want it to surprise croc.
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Now that I've had some experience with my recent summer
cruise, I'm quite happy with my epropulsion spirit 1.0 plus and my suzuki 20hp 4stroke. In harbors with lots of boats around and where I didn't have far to go to walk the dog, I liked using the epropulsion motor because of how quiet it was. But it was definitely nice to have the big motor to zip over longer distances if I was anchored far from a good place to walk my dog, or far from a town I wanted to visit.