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Pete thanks for the info on the davits, the stability was my biggest concern with the approach. It seems that know has tried this approach with a dog, so it could very well be an unworkable idea.

The outboard hoist or even the boom is another option. I was trying to find a common solution for both the dink and the dog. I'm still not conviced that I want to be inflating a dink onboard and then using a hoist to set the motor and dog. I don't have a inflatable dink as of yet, so I don't really know how difficult managing the dink without davits will be.