Month: August, 2009

Land of 10,000 Lilts

31 August, 2009 (17:24) | Minnesota | By: tillergirl

After a few months of telling ourselves that Yoohoo would be departing the marina momentarily, we came to our senses and decided that if she couldn’t be budged from the docks, we at least would.  We filed away the boat projects list , still 2 pages too long, prepped Yoohoo for the possible stray hurricane, [...]

Arrive at the Dinghy Dock in Style

4 August, 2009 (23:30) | Virginia | By: tillergirl

We’ve been busy researching dinghies as our current Porta-Bote, which we call the Unfoldable (it unfolds rather than inflates), is too much work to stow and unstow frequently, as is often required for coastal passage bashing.  Dinghies seem at times to require even greater compromises than the mothership.  The stowage trifecta (volume, weight and deployment [...]