RE: [Paddlewise] Stowable Craft for Sailboats

From: Coplan, Karl <KCoplan_at_law.pace.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:10:31 -0500
We use two keowee tupperware kayaks as landing craft on our 30' sailboat.
They do not deflate, but they are small enough to lash to the cabin top
without interfering with the boom.  They are light enough to make launching
and retrieving an easy one person operation.  Each one has a shotgun seat
for a child up to about age ten or eleven in calm water.  As my son has
outgrown this, we added a Folbot Aleut to the fleet.

I dont have any experience with inflatables.  I considered getting an
inflatable at the time we got the Aleut, but I decided that the Folbot would
be more satisfactory to paddle.

--Karl Coplan
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