Annie Hill wrote:
Gary King wrote:When a croc decides he is bigger than you, or your dinghy, thats it. You're lunch. We may bite the bullet and buy an outboard for the dink just for that reason.
Why not have two rowing positions? Then you could easily outpace the croc and failing that, one person could hit it on the nose with the oar while the other rowed :-). Vigorously.
Looks like the current dink is a failure as a rower. Two knots max with two onboard. The transoms drag and redistributing the weight means water coming over the bow in a chop. Someone rescued us recently with a tow when we were hit with a 1 to 2 knot cross current while attempting the one mile row back to the boat. A Nymph (and probably a Tortoise) wouldn't give us this grief. Since we can't build a new one, we've ordered a 3hp OB. Sad really, with an efficient rower we wouldnt need to do this. Now need to figure out where to stow it.
Yeah, croc "persuading" has been carried out by cruisers up here. But some of them are huge, ever since they became a "protected species" a couple decades ago. What a terrible idea that was. We'll have to watch it, there are some stories up here..