Bermuda 40

[psk125]

Dinghy likely fits upside down on the cabin top. Moveable solar panels can go on top of the dinghy or elsewhere. You could also add davits, though it would mess up the lines of the boat.

[rls8r]

From scp2hvfc -

"What do you do with the dinghy? None of these boats have davits."

Most of the B40s that I'm familiar with keep a hard dinghy (if they have one) on the foredeck (see photo of my boat being put overboard). Mine is a nice, refurbished, 7'11" Dyer sailing midget (see other photo). My foredeck has a teak fitting for the bow just aft of the windlass and two teak fittings between the forward hatch and the Dorade box for the transom. Often, on short hops, the dinghy is simply towed behind the boat. It's not too difficult (on a calm day) to use one of the main mast halyards to lift the dinghy over the lifelines. I'll often get curious looks when I anchor the boat and then sail ashore in the sailing dinghy. If it were up to me, none of these boats would ever have davits.

Otherwise, I keep an inflatable dinghy in one of the cockpit sail lockers. I use the hard dinghy when I'm going to beach the dinghy - or when it's just a short trip. I use the inflatable when I have a lot of stuff to convey to the boat from shore, or when I have a long(-ish) distance to go and the winds are light or contrary.

"No davits for solar so how do you keep batteries topped off without the engine going?"

Yes, that's a problem with these boats. There are not many places to put solar cells that are out of a sail shadow. I'm looking into putting panels on the lifelines near the cockpit - and a way to shift them from one side to the other so they can catch the sun without being shaded by the main or mizzen sails. So far, I haven't come up with a good solution. I've heard of some folks looking at putting flexible solar cells on a bimini - but I haven't actually seen any of those in action. Any thus fitted would have the same shading problem.

So, it's charge batteries using shore power or running the engine.