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Ultimate Dinghy for the Sailing Catamaran
We then built a small pram dinghy which we kept on the forward netting. This worked fine until we went on our big expedition of 2001 when we went around Vancouver Island. This is where we found out why the put netting at the front of a cat: to let the water through. To make a long story short the dinghy got pretty beat and crushed by waves that wanted to go through the netting on a trip from Sea Otter Cover to Winter Harbor. I was able to patch it together with duck tape, epoxy, and some extra hatch covers. However we did realize this wasn’t going to work for extended offshore passages that we had planned for Mexico and Hawaii.
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Our first dinghy on Light Wave was actually technically the first boat I actually
built. It was a two part nesting dinghy that I built for our first boat. I lasted
one year until while towing someone inside it (who wanted to video Lightwave
while sailing at 8 knots) it split in half.
In 2005, we sold out beat up dinghy for $35 and took the money went to out for
a good chinese dinner. We then bought a 10- foot folding porta-bote which we
keep in a special holder on our custom arch. It takes about 5 minutes to put
together. It has many advantages:
