Just got back from a short road trip to visit an old friend from our canal boating days. Apart from the pleasure of catching up on old times, the primary purpose of the excercise was to view and hopefully purchase an outboard and inflatable dinghy
The outboard was everything I hoped for - a nice, small and above all light weight Tohatsu 2.5 2 stroke. No gears, no clutch, no twist grip throttle, all of which means less weight and less to go wrong. Despite old fuel and not having been touched for a couple of years it started and ran happily in the water butt. Result!
The dinghy is a Plastimo 3 man job and too good to turn down at the price offered. I suspect it's not going to be willing to go in the available locker though, at least not packed as standard and possibly not at all. No matter, we'll tow it or stow it on deck or something. If it won't go in the locker space that may make it a temporary rather than a permanent solution. I can live with that given the cost saving over buying a new small inflatable
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