Here in the Pacific Northwest, the water's a bit chilly for using this as our only means of transportation off the mother ship. (We also have a high pressure floor inflatable and small outboard.)

As you can see from the photo, this tandem pedal kayak has a rather raft-like underbody. The pedal drive system is remarkably efficient and 4 knots is easy for us too. We can reach five knots for brief periods, but the boat squats and water starts coming up the drain holes aft. (I'm not a lightweight.). Anyway, this kayak is great for touring harbors and quicker to deploy than the dinghy which is rolled up in the laz a lot of the time.

I devised a pair of chocks that use large diameter dowels to nest into the angled rod-holder holes on the kayak. The chocks in turn bridge over the reefing lines that run across the deck. The chocks are only lashed in place so they can be removed when not needed and no holes were added through the deck. If you follow the web link, there are other views of the chock system as well as an unrelated collection of photos showing ways people have mounted solar panels. We gave the solar panel issue a lot of thought before committing to our own solar panel scheme.

We didn't take the kayak offshore on our trip to Mexico last year. As it happened there were no serious deck-sweeping seas, but certainly there could have been.