Dinghy

We went with an Inflatable Sport Boats 8.8 Dolphin, inflatable floor, dinghy. 

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Deflated, it will fit in the center cockpit storage area.  Once we moved our house battery bank to the center cockpit storage area, it no longer fits in there. 

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We carry it around several ways.

• Inflated

  • Upside down, on the T-Bar in the cockpit

  • Drag it behind the boat doing 8 knots or less. 

  • Vertical, on the starboard side, blocking the transom door.​

• Deflated​

  • In the cockpit, port side.​

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The T-Bar is made out of PVC and just slides right over the ski-tow bar.

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We use a portable electric pump (120volt AC) powered via the inverter to inflate and deflate the dinghy. 

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The Yamaha F2.5 outboard will push the dinghy at almost 5 knots at WOT.  We use our dinghy to get to/from shore in an anchorage.  The outboard weighs 35lbs and hold 1/2 a gallon of gas.  It can be laid down in the cockpit on it's side for transport without gas or oil leaking out.

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We store it on the handrail on the transom when at anchor or a marina only. We also use this to flush the saltwater out.

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The Dinghy is made by Inflatable Sport Boats, the Dolphin 8.8 with an air floor.  This is also available via our Affiliate Shop

I picked it because deflated, in its bag, it weights 60lbs.  Inflated, it'll haul up to 1070lbs and will move 4 adults.  We wanted to fit 3 adults and 3 dogs plus gear, safely to/from shore.