A picture of our split floor dinghy is below. This is a serious violation of the keep the water on the outside of the boat rule. I didn't even try to repair it, and West Marine didn't want to try either. Everyone cautioned us about PVC in the tropics, but that we should at least get two summers out of it. Well, we didn't quite get even that.
After some wrangling back and forth we got good credit for the old dinghy, like two years of use for less than $300. We applied our credit to the biggest, nicest (but about heaviest) Hypalon dinghy they had, which should just fit on our foredeck. It was a RIB with a fiberglass hull, in fact double hulled, with a step/storage compartment in the front (which Heather really wanted). Hopefully our last dinghy purchase for at least a decade. We rang it up, waited for the weekly delivery to the store, and ... nothing. Oops, didn't make it. Well, shit happens. Double checked everything and it would definitely be there the next week ... except that it wasn't.
At this point Heather and I were out of time. We needed to get the boat to where it was going to be for hurricane season and get to Heather's family's reunion in Las Vegas on the 4th of July. We left Vero and made our way back to Brunswick in record time. We'd have to get the dinghy another time, in another place.
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