Hi Charless, Ah, the dinghy problem!!!! Let me quickly sketch my experiences and which way I went, and why. This might help you in your thinking and improve your dinghy-ology. Originally with my Tripp-Lentsch 29 I had a 9 foot sailing dinghy. I lived with it for years but........ and it's the buts ..... that get you: there was no way I could put it on deck if the weather deteriorated. It had to be towed. ...and if towed in poor conditions you got spash into the dinghy, which made it heavier and eventually you have to bail out the dinghy to continue. So, I found an old - needed rebuilding - Dyer 7'-9" low freeboard dinghy. Much lighter than the 9 foot dinghy and I could put it on the cabin top, but .......... on anything but a mill pond the low freeboard Dyer, with two people aboard, picked up every wavelet, and don't even think of launches or PWC wakes. So, it solved one problem, but gave us a new and wetter one to deal with. My neighbor had a small AVON inflatable which he sold me for a very nominal sum. Ah Ha, said I, all problems solved: inflatable can live in the forward berths and when needed can be assembled on deck and dropped overboard. ......and you could. No more towing a dink. Hurrah! but......... the inflatable only works if your outboard functions. No outboard, and then you are forced to try and row home, and since Murphy is always involved in this - it is against the wind and tide for at least 1 NM - and raining. Have you ever tried rowing an inflatable with oars that are too short; and a seating position that is all wrong for rowing? T'ain't fun; and since my Evinrude 2 HP was the soul of cantankerousness, with it's high tension wire to the spark plug waving out in the breeze, it refused to run if the humidity was over 20% - moisture on the high tension wire grounded out the spark: no spark - no running: back to rowing again. So,........ I bought the regular high sided Dyer 7'-9" dinghy, because at least if the engine quit - or refused to run - I could row back to the boat again in a boat that really rowed. I could also put it on the cabin top so I didn't have to tow it if weather deteriorated. That became my final combination and I was happy with it. However, the Dyer dinghy went with my Tripp-Lentsch when it was sold. With my MICRO and ComPac16 I needed a dinghy, so I built a Bolger NYMPH. It too, is about 7'-6" long, carries two people easily and is a great rowing machine, but it has to be towed. There is no way you can put the dinghy on an M15 cabin top. The NYMPH is light weight (made of 1/4" lauan plywood - fiberglass covered) and I find it a delightful little rowing machine. I have read articles about using one man inflatables on our size boats, but they are primarily used for getting a very short distance from boat to beach. A situation where you anchor, then tie off the stern to a tree on shore. You rig a sort of clothes line to shore so that one person can go ashore and then the person on board hauls the dinghy back to the boat and goes ashore as well. The dinghy being controlled by the clothesline between boat and shore. If distances to be covered get larger, and the water could get rougher, then something like a hard dinghy (Dyer, NYMPH or similar would be a happier solution than a non rowing inflatable. On the other hand Charless, you have your Suzuki, which is totally enclosed, and runs. If I had had a Suzuki instead of my Evinrude that hated any sort of moisture (how do you avoid moisture when on the water?) I might have been quite happy with the AVON inflatable solution. That's my two cents worth....... Connie ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.