… that attached to three eyes inside the dinghy, one in the bow and two in the stern, and raised the dinghy horizontally. This was attached by way of a snap shackle to the Foreguy we used to hoist, although we usually tie a bowline. We bagged this several years ago. Now we simply bowline (or sometimes just the snap shackles) the dinghy painter to the foreguy and hoist vertically, bow up. We use the windlass, with the engine on. A Caribe 9 Light, so 100 pounds or so. If it's not windy two of us can easily do it, with 3 is better. We get the dinghy just over the life-lines, bring it on deck and she stows nicely between the windlass and the baby-stay on the foredeck. I made a teak block that wedges between my two Head hatches and the fiberglass transom rests on this. With the dinghy on the foredeck I can open my forward hatch just about all the way (and inside the dinghy so no rain comes in. The dinghy is secured by two 2" webbing straps with Kwik-Lok Tiedowns I got at West Marine, that are S-hooked to the stanchion bases, which is quick & easy … and hopefully if ever need be the Dinghy could be released at the Bow in a matter of seconds.

Our 100lb Suzuki 4S 15 HP Outboard is raised & lowered from the Dinghy to the Stern Rail by way of a Garhauer 6:1 Outboard Lift, that is secured to our Radar Mast. The dinghy sits nicely on a custom teak hunk of 2 pieces of wood I sandwiched & bolted around the stern rail. The Outboard Lift Harness also came from C-Level and we leave it on the the Outboard all the time. Quick & easy for this too, my wife raises and lowers the Outboard to / from me in the dinghy, it's very easy, no winch required.

Cheers, John