New Mercury outboards

Love hearing stories like that.

I decided that for the way we boat and how I want to store and use a dinghy that I’m better off with a small lightweight slat floor roll up and a small lightweight 2 stroke.
There would only be a few times a year I would use it at all, and when I do take it with me I’ll be moving it on and off my swim platform from my dock property by myself.
That’s why I want to keep it as light as possible.
I sold the brand new 10’ 6” solid floor inflatable I bought when I bought the motor already.
Muscling the 125 lb boat, then the 92 lb motor between my dock and swim platform by myself wasn’t fun.
I initially thought about installing a winch on my dock to help with the task, but I don’t use a dinghy enough to justify all of that.

I get that. We use ours differently. We leave it on the dock. The kids take it out to meeting when we go out. They generally roam and and explore the harbor while we hang in the hook.

On the old boat I used Weaver davits and stored the engine on the swim platform. I had to mount / dismount it in the water so I had to keep the engine as light as possible. Now I have a different davit system where I can leave the engine mounted to the RIB.
 

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