and now the Dinghy has swamped in 7-9' seas, snapping the painter" crowd. The dinghy surfed down a wave face and filled and it was too heavy to recover in the conditions. Luckily it was spotted a day or two later and recovered by the Canadian CG. It's on it's way home now but it was a PITA at the time. It was a nesting dinghy that I hoped not to tow but found the nesting feature so awkward that we never carried it on deck. My mistake. Our old 7.5 Nutshell sat on deck handily but is too small for the family now. Perhaps it's time for an Inflatable.