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Originally Posted by sailingdog
And if you're on a mooring or anchored, the dinghy ride is often shorter...
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I hear you on that one. At High tide I have a 1km row, at low tide I row 500m and carry the ducky 500m, My Tri sits in under 1m of water at low tide on its mooring (so I can jump in the water and walk around it
). The Mono's around me either are further out or healed over with keels on the bottom at low tide.
So it really is something to think about, could be the difference between a 1km row or a 2km row. I don't usually use an outboard on the tender even though I have one because the ducky is hard enough to carry 500m on sloshy sand, the outboard just means an extra round trip over the sloshy sand.
Here's a photo at 1/2 tide, I don't know how deep this mono draws, but this photo was taken about when the water was at least 1m above low tide and with 2m highs as usual.
Dave.