We Almost Lost Our Prop!
Note to self: Don’t let the dinghy painter get tangled in the prop. It seems like a pretty basic premise, and yet, that’s exactly what we did. What started as a quick little sail out to Middle River for the weekend, turned into yet another project to fix. As we were trying to anchor in […]
Building an Outboard Engine Rail-Mount
Way back in 2014 we bought a used Achillies rigid inflatable dinghy that came with a Honda 9.9 HP outboard. It’s been tied up at our dock ever since. We use it usually during the summer to run around on the river. On our first overnight anchoring trip, we decided to leave it behind because […]
Dinghy-ling
Two years ago we bought a used 11’6″ Achilles Inflatable RIB. It had a gouge in the fiberglass bottom and a patch on the front pontoon. Obviously something had been dropped on the dinghy, but it was holding air at the time and for the price we didn’t care that much. After two years of use […]
Hey buddy, need a lift?
We’ve ordered a few things from Garhauer Marine in the past and I’ve always been impressed at how they can offer high quality, heavy duty sailboat hardware at an unbelievably low price. And, they back it all up with a 10 year unconditional guarantee.
No work
Work has come to a screeching halt lately. My sister and her family came to visit on Saturday so Rich and I spent Saturday morning cleaning up the boat. We hadn’t cleaned the outside of the boat since…it rained last? Shameful.
Weekend Update
This past weekend was the 4th of July. As usual, we didn’t do too much. Friday morning we took Fat Suki to Korth’s Pirate Lair for breakfast. Surprisingly it only took us about 20 minutes to get there and we got up to 17 kph. Way faster than we thought our little dink could go.
Stand and deliver
Jeni and I were out for a ride in the dinghy not too long ago when she noticed water wasn’t streaming out the indicator tube in the usual “like a race horse” fashion. That stream is supposed to let you know the pump is picking up cooling water and circulating it through the engine, and […]
Fat Suki
We finally broke down and bought a dinghy. Our boat came with a dinghy disguised as an inflatable pool toy so we knew we were going to get an adult-sized dinghy eventually. When the weather started warming up we began contemplating getting a dinghy or kayaks or standup paddle boards. Browsing on Craigs List the […]