Dinghy Cruising on a Budget - Top Tips with Roger Barnes 

Your advice is true for most things in life. Be content with what you have adapt and don't be afraid.

Roger - you are a great inspiration. I hope to catch up with you some day soon.

For people afraid of being not comfortable on a dinghy I can only say that as a through hiker I have to carry "my whole home" on my back; I spent also many, many weeks on a canoe or inflatable dinghy on Danube and compared to backpacking I always considered my boating trips as an unheard of luxury. Now I consider building my own cruising dinghy with a small cabin. I am looking forward going places and I am rather fond of idea that I will not be dependent on marinas or deep enough anchorages as I still want to make landfalls a lot.

Rogers book is fantastic!

"Dont' buy a yacht"... if only I had gotten to this years ago...

Yes I got a dinghy and im fixing it up at the moment

Great advice from Roger.

Use the boat you already own. Exactly. Now i just have to retrieve my Mirror Dinghy from Nova Scotia as I retire from working in NWT.

Love it ❤

Thank you. My wife owns an elderly Wayfarer mk II. It could be a fine experience to go explore our coasts in a dinghy 🇩🇰

Thank you Roger for your opinions and comments. You always motivate me to think small and cheap. You are right on in your comments and I love your book !

so what you are saying is my topper iso and contender are bot out then lol, altough i have had a 2hp seagull outboard on my contender to motor it around to the bay we use to go dingy sailing in as it was the only way i could get it there, as it was a tad windy to sail it, i did pack all my camping stuff on it once and sailed it 5 miles down the cost to go to the local sailing club bbq weekend witch was fun, had to get a tow back though as there was no wind to sail back!!

Another lovely video from Roger, speaking sense as always. I really appreciate the inclusivity of this video - we HAVE to open up to everyone - way to go!

Good to see you again roger,and some usefull tips thankyou.regards robert.

I'm looking to get a dinghy that rows, sails and has a outboard motor that I can get into lakes and rivers in and do some fishing and some electronics and lights.

As a follower I would sometime like to see a detailed, slow lesson lingering on the details of Avel Ro's boomless, balancdd lug rig if that's possible. Perhaps illustrations can appear in your next book too?

Don't buy the most expensive boat you can afford, but the cheapest that fits your familie's needs. Another tip: have a wooden boat. It is much lighter and offers more storage space. You can easily drill (and close) holes, if necessary.

The boat at 2:55, is that a navigator? Is it a gaff rig main?

I have met several people who have been given boats or picked them up at incredibly cheap prices. I have a friend with ten -- that's right: 10 -- small boats who has spent less on all ten boats combined than I spent on a single new construction. Less than half what I spent. No kidding.

Bury The Rail!

Hi Roger, great video!! What is the red dinghy at 2:03, please? Thank you very much!

The fun you have sailing is inversely proportional to the size of the boat. Bigger boat, less fun.

Somewhat fake, butt that was SOMETHING in my hometown in the Land of Goshen, Land of Lincoln USA when a racoon harbored in theYonakas Jewlery store, hanging around all of the largest diamond wedding rings! Then a raccoon came to my Democrat pro-life,coalition neighbor to live in a galvanized, corrugated drainage pipe on a new road for new new subdivision behind my mother's rental. Then someone put a deep DENT in the end of the pipe, likely so the racoon couldn't enter. I tried to remove the DENT by prying-up with the 11-foot mast of my, used, $325, old AMF Alcort Sunfish sailboat, sitting in the YARD illegally, near the new subdivision. Then the mast of the sailboat disappeared! People in the subdivision were being stung by bees from a hive in the yard of the rental. The red mailbox 'fell' off it's post; I had to SECURE the mailbox! --glk, Town cryer, Ten ton dog, 🟫🟩 WW11 tail-gunner. Yes,I pooped today!