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  • 11 Sep 2014 21:40
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    I see the widget/origami/prout folding dinghy has been mentioned. Actually I have one and found it an absolute pain to store. Free to a good home if you can pick it up in Hull.
  • 11 Sep 2014 01:54
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    I've been very slowly working on a plywood nesting dinghy for a little while now. Funds have been short so not a lot has happened. Last week I was given a Sea-Pro HSM 240 inflatable by a friend who was going to bin it. it has a leak in the aft end of one of the bladders. I bought some Fixtech 15 and I'm having a go at gluing it. The aft end of the bladder is a rubber cone fitted into the tapered end of the bladder. I missed a spot on my first attempt and I'll have another go at it today.
  • 29 Feb 2012 09:57
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    Regards the dingy, stowage is the pain, I use a tyre inflator connected to a diving regulator first stage and a small dive bottle to inflate my 'rubber duck' ... you take off the 2nd stage of the regulator (the bit you poke in yer mouth!) and replace it with the inflator, its inflates very very quickly compared to pumping and (big bonus) there's no huffing and puffing on a foot pump.... you can pick up an old set of regulators , bottle and the inflator very cheaply on e-bay and to be safe your local dive shop can check it over for a few pounds (what makes you think I used to be a PADI instructor?: or "Put Another Dollar In"  hmmmm?!)

    .....but if you do intend to make one:  an easy, light contsruction is using thin plywood with the "stitch  and glue" method...I used cable ties for the "stitching" and epoxy to glue the joins, the seat and gunnel (again plywood)  once hard the ties can be removed (I left them in!), beef up the joints inside with epoxy filler 'fillets', a good rub down and a dollop of paint, bingo !! : its a bit like macrame?! but simple , strong and very satisfying... in true Junk tradition me thinks!

    Finally the anchor, I had a very similar problem, I lost my steering in the middle of Portsmouth harbour with a gert great ferry ploughing down on me... after that salutory experience I put the anchor in cockpit, but I found it to be big, bulky, it fills the locker and cockpit with mud, a real pain! ... So, I am going to put the beastie back in in the bow locker and get another reletively small danforth with a chain (etc) just for emergencies,  the idea being that I can deploy it quickly  and hold while I go to the bow to release the big-un.... some sage told me a good yardstick is one pound of anchor/chain per foot length ... thoughts? PS i'm going to use a danforth as it folds easilly?

     
  • 28 Feb 2012 13:13
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    We had an original Prout folding dinghy on our first junk schooner. It did just that - folded up- whilst trying to get ashore in some big wind over tide waves. Luckily the RNLI inshore rib was training nearby and rescued us!!  To be fair to fold ups it was very stable and rowed pretty well and normally did not collapse  Tony &Sally
  • 28 Feb 2012 12:30
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    We carried a Seahopper for years on our previous boat, a Sunbird 32. Good and strong, great for rowing or sailing. Bought it as a kit. I've just given it to my daughter who has just bought Vincent Reddish's Kingfisher 20+. (David, I've added Seahopper to the links page.)
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  • 28 Feb 2012 09:54
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    So Annie tells me.
  • 27 Feb 2012 23:59
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    Gary Pick wrote:David do you have any written construction details for your folding tender?
    Gary,
    Not yet. I'll get around to it soon, because it turned out to be quite a good little tender.
  • 27 Feb 2012 22:57
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    David do you have any written construction details for your folding tender?
  • 26 Feb 2012 21:24
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    Thank you Annie. I've always been a leery of folding boats but I will look more closely at this one.
  • 26 Feb 2012 21:19
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    Gary asked about the folding dinghy that The Great One designed for me and which we built in the wonderful workshop at the Motueka Yacht Club.  What is my assessment of Peawaka now that I have had chance to use her.

    Well, she rows almost as well as a solid tender and considerably better than a rubber duck.  She tracks quite well and doesn't get blown off course too much.  I rowed about half a mile in F6 the other day without undue difficulty. 

    She is light and can be carried up the beach on my shoulders, as long as it's not too windy. 

    She is very quick to assemble.  More time is spent manoeuvring     around her on the confined deck than on actually doing the assembly.

    I can see over her pretty well when she is on deck, which was the object of the exercise.

    I think she is quite tender, but am not sure because I am used to tender tenders and don't find it an issue as long as they are not excessively tippy.

    She will carry two people, but unless the other person is my size or smaller,  they have to row.  This can be a drawback if they are not used to rowing! David has rowed her and she trimmed well.  As he is about 60% heavier than I, this was a good test of her utility for non-hobbits.

    Any drawbacks are as a result of the design brief:

    Her lightness means that when assembling her in breezy conditions, she threatens to take off like a kite.  I now put her athwartships under the sail where the wind can't catch her quite so easily.

    It would be difficult to run out a line or a kedge in a hurry, although I could carry her on deck assembled, at a pinch.

    She is possibly a bit light for running out anchor and chain anyway, though no doubt Id take the risk if I had to: the fabric transom would make deploying said anchor more than a bit tricky.

    The fabric - Top Gun - is obviously more likely to get damaged than plywood.  Having said which, it seems pretty tough, but I am understandably reluctant to put it to the test.  It is, incidentally, entirely waterproof.

    The only other drawback, from the point of view of a potential builder, is that she was by no means straightforward to construct, but TGO, when he's finished making sails, would be the one to expound on this side of it 'cos he's both the builder of the difficult bits and the designer.

    In conclusion, I love the dinghy and as time goes by suspect I'll be more and more confident about her ruggedness.

    Oh - I suppose I should say she has no built in buoyancy.  Doesn't bother me.
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