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Gloss
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Initially Posted - 02/26/2005 :  13:03:51  Show Profile
I have one of those cheap Intex inflatable boats that rolls up really small. I remember seeing someplace where you can buy little fins to strap onto your dingy to make it track better. I don't remember in what catalog I saw it though
Any ideas?
Frank Gloss
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Jeff McK
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Response Posted - 02/26/2005 :  14:00:03  Show Profile
Uhh, Frank?

Any chance you could edit your message down & get rid of all the blank space?
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 02/26/2005 :  16:36:41  Show Profile
Yeah Jeff,
I don't know how that happened
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pwhallon
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 :  10:14:46  Show Profile
"Strap On"

I won't go there.

PW
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Doug
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 :  10:59:51  Show Profile
"My dingy needs a strap on"
For a minute there I thought I'd stumbled into the wrong kind of web site
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tmhansen
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 :  12:57:52  Show Profile  Visit tmhansen's Homepage
Frank, I remember see them in the WM catalog. I just looked in my new catalog and did not see it.
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Earl Landers
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 :  19:48:09  Show Profile
Frank,
I found them and it only took looking thru about 20 sail mags.



Find them at

http://www.scully-fin.com/index.shtml
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 :  20:01:11  Show Profile
You da man Earl
I'll check it out, thanks a whole bunch.
But you know, now that I look at the picture, they are made for tubes that stick out. I have one of those cheap Intek dingys that has tubes that are continuous all the way around the boat, I'll have to figure out how to attach some fins. I really should get a real dingy, but this one stows in a really small nylon bag and is easy to put in the forward berth. I'll see how much of a hassle it is to row in the wind when I sail to the Dry Tortugas in April

Thanks again, my friend
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Gloss
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Response Posted - 02/27/2005 :  20:15:40  Show Profile
I was just looking through the new 2005 West catalog, and right there on page 243 are the strap ons. (Scully fins)
100 bucks. That's about what I paid for the dingy in the first place.
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Response Posted - 02/28/2005 :  02:14:58  Show Profile  Visit tmhansen's Homepage
Man, I looked at that page and did not see them. There was an idea in a recent magazine I saw that you may be able to apply (Good Old Boat?) The author made an an extension to the skeg on the bottom of his hard bottom dingy. If I remember your boat does not have a transom so it might be a challenge but you might be able to rig up a third oar or something streaming off the back held in place by lines to either side. I can't figure how you would keep it down in the water, maybe just with its own weight. Am I making any sense. If you want to torture an architect take away his pencil and make him explain an idea with words alone!

As I see it you will need to fix an attachment point at the center line of the boat, like an oarlock. Maybe your boat has a D ring at that point. At that point you attach the handle end of a short oar or paddle turned so that the blade is in the working direction, vertical. Now tie lines from the blade end of the oar to either side of the rear of the boat.

Since it would be like having a rudder locked in one postion off the back of the boat it might make turning interesting. But since the rest of the boat has no directional stability it might work.

I remember one when I tried to paddle a white water kayak with a smooth bottom across a lake. As soon as I got up to speed with my fellow boaters the back end of the boat would try and become the front. We duct taped a small piece of aluminum bent into the shape of a skeg to the rear of the boat. The transformation was amazing.
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