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Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-10-2019, 12:19
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Posted By Simi 60
Re: towing a large Dinghy - or not?

1) if shorthanded as we always are, a cheap reversing camera can work as a dedicated crew member, think I paid $50 for two with infra red and a screen, one in engine room one out the back.

2) we...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-10-2019, 12:45
Replies: 59
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Posted By Simi 60
Re: towing a large Dinghy - or not?

That must be a terribly unseaworthy tender you have
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-10-2019, 11:52
Replies: 59
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Posted By Simi 60
Re: towing a large Dinghy - or not?

One of those statements doesn't corelate with the other. :wink:
Forum: General Sailing Forum 06-10-2019, 14:21
Replies: 59
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Posted By Simi 60
Re: towing a large Dingi - or not?

Why would you even try to do it while you are in the water?
Easy enough to do using halyard/boom
For us, davits
For others, deck crane.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-10-2019, 04:58
Replies: 59
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Posted By Simi 60
Re: towing a large Dingi - or not?

You might.
Just another day for us and others.
On passage ours runs behind us on 100ft or more of 16mm rope, outboard leg down, happy as.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 04-10-2019, 04:46
Replies: 59
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Posted By Simi 60
Re: towing a large Dingi - or not?

BS.

Professional fisherman tow several in line for hundreds of miles regularly in this part of the world

We've towed our near 15ft alloy dory for thousands of miles with never an issue but of...
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