Carioca came with an inflatable dinghy and electric outboard motor. When in the Mediterranean or Caribbean, the boat tender is equivalent to using your car at home. It needs to be ready (not needing pumping up) available, ie easily deployed and robust, so it can be bashed about dockside and pulled up a beach.
So we bought a Highfeild 2.9m ultralight tender. It has an aluminium hull, one of the lightest but robust hulls, allowing it to be dragged up over rocks and pebbles, but hopefully more often white sugary sand!
Unfortunately the davits are too long, so I needed to reroute the cable to the middle – we’ll pay Chris at Ensign to do to that!
Carioca Sailing 