We've towed and hauled our dinghy and laziness is the ban of the sailor.

One year we towed a 12' Achilles sport inflatable all the way back from the Bahamas to the E coast of the US. It was late summer and the sailing was light or just motoring. I think we actually towed it across the Gulf Stream but that I don't remember. I do remember on the last day coming up from Venice Fl to our home port; we were crossing the mouth of Tampa Bay and a squall from the S hit. We were making good time and the dinghy was doing fine until ... a large wave rolled through and the dinghy surfed down it then went sideways and somehow ended up upside down. Now that is a real PITA. At midnight on the tail end of a squal. I haulled the dinghy up as close to the boat as I could, got the nose out of the water and used and oar to flip it back over. Almost knocked the wife out when the oar slipped off. DUMB!

Still not having learned, years later in the San Blas we towed our dinghy most places. We don't yet have davits. Wanted to get them last year in Colombia but it didn't work out. Anyway we were towing near shore our inflatable w/o engine and our hard dinghy side by side. The inflatable splashed enough water in to the hard Dyer that i had to go bail and ended up in the water.

We sold the hard dinghy - at a good loss, and not were' selling the Achilles. Ironically it is to big for this boat (a Westsail 42) but I could easily carry it stowed on our WS 32! Go figure. We're getting a RIB that will store easier on the deck upside down on the aft cabin. Enough of towing in bad situations.

Ciao