Hello,
After chartering twice in the BVI and not having to do this, on my recent charter with the Moorings at St. Martin, they told me I needed to take the outboard off of the dinghy and mount it back on the stern pulpit bracket whenever I was towing the dinghy under sail.
Well, this was a pain as I'm not particularly strong and have a bad back. Wrestling that thing on and off the dink even in relatively calm anchorages was not fun and I'm wondering if I was just a sucker for actually doing what they said. I confess, on the last day, on an easy sail back from St. Barts, I left the damn thing on the dink and it did fine.
So what's the logic on this? Are they trying to prolong the life of the dink transom? Is there that much stress?
Do people just ignore this request?
Thanks,
Tom
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