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  1. Mooring Your Dinghy While Ashore, Made Easy
  2. Avon Dinghy, Take Two
  3. Avon Dinghy

  • Mooring Your Dinghy While Ashore, Made Easy

    John Harries
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    Mooring Your Dinghy While Ashore, Made Easy

    Some of the most fun we can have while cruising is while exploring ashore, but what if there is no dinghy dock? How do you make sure your dinghy is safe while you’re gone? Here’s an easy-to-deploy mooring you can build that solves the problem…and it will save your back too.

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  • Avon Dinghy, Take Two

    Phyllis
    70 CommentsReading Time: 3 minutesFree
    Avon Dinghy, Take Two

    We loved our old Avon dinghy, so much so that we kept it in active service for 20 years, even though it sprang a slow air leak about year 17. (Unless you’ve ever tried jumping 4 feet into the air—it’s about that distance from the dinghy tube to Morgan’s Cloud’s side-deck—off a squishy inner tube, […]

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  • Avon Dinghy

    John Harries
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    Our 16-year old Avon dinghy may not be much to look at, but it just keeps on floating! The bottom is covered with patches necessary after many rocky beach haul ups, not to mention being used as a pusher boat to move growlers in Greenland, but the pontoons still hold air for at least a […]

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