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| The 2 Lison-dinghies |
No, we don't want to race each other... But the old dinghy (in the top of above picture) was slightly too large to be stored on deck while inflated. Plus it was a high-pressure-air-floor dinghy, which was good until the air-floor burst in the Bahamas 2-1/2 years ago: http://blog.lison.com/2017/12/new-floor-for-dinghy.html
We replaced the air-floor with 3/4" thick plywood, which made the dinghy quite heavy. It still performed OK, but we were always on the lookout for something else.
Here we got this from cruiser friends who are getting a fancy, fast catamaran-dinghy. This new to us dinghy stores nicely between inner forestay and babystay. It needs a bit of work, being from 2006, but it looks like it has a few more years of life still in it.
We may keep the old dinghy for a while... and we have two outboard engines, so there may be races after all :-)
