Mounting Issues

With the purchase of the new dinghy come one or two new problems which in hindsight should probably have been thought through before buying the thing.

First up the dinghy is 2.40m long which is as near as damn it as wide as Naughty-Cal. We intend to mount it on snap davits bolted to the bathing platform but will also need some method of holding the dinghy back off the transom as we still need access to the transom gate with the dinghy attached to the davits. Im sure the method will become clear when we offer the boat up to Naughty-Cal.

The second slightly bigger challange is going to be mounting the outboard to Naughty-Cal. We had intended to purchase a smaller 2.3hp engine which would have been light enough to hang from the transom grab rail. The new 6hp outboard will be too heavy to do this so we need a rethink. We have seen the perfect solution but at nearly £400 it is going to be far too expensive for the time being. We are going to have to have a major think about how we mount the outboard safely to the boat. It needs to be secure enough that it wont bounce off its mounting at sea.

I will post a further update to this little issue when we have made a desicion on the course of action to take. It hopefully wont to in the too distant future as we want to take the dinghy on our Easter cruise in just three weeks time.