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Originally Posted by Vasco
For most Bahamas cruisers dinks are your lifeline and a great part of the fun. Exploring for miles, going to far off reefs to fish, provisioning, lugging water, dinghy drifts, group outings. That's why the vast majority of us have the largest RIB we can deal with on the mothership and a hefty motor, usually a 15 hp two stroke |
I hear you Vasco, and I understand. All these things are great. You can go further, go faster, and probably do it all more comfortably than I. That's fine. But this is an endlessly scalable point. Some rich dude in a super yacht can go twice as far as you, twice as fast, using his 28'
RIB with a 60hp
motor. That's fine too.
The size of
outboard and dingy have tracked upward over time, just as the average size of yacht. It's a sign of growing affluence in Western societies. So in this I agree with Gord May (except to say that not all of us are "forced" into choosing small over large). Most sailors choose the biggest tender/engine they can reasonably handle, just like the chose the biggest yacht they can manage.
As
history clearly shows, these are wants, not needs. People have been sailing to the
Bahamas in small boats for over 100 years now (and that's only considering "modern" times). Clearly most of them managed to get from mothership to shore, to provision, to explore, and probably even have some fun.
As I said, there is no
right answer. There is only the answer
that is right for you.
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