Dinghy Landing 101

Lessons in Beach Landing
1) Find a good beach, preferably with a lot of people around
2) Find a dinghy
3) Wait for the surf to go away
4) After waiting a few days for the surf to go away, get in your dingy anyways and head for shore
5) Put your wheels down (if equipped, and yes, you can have wheels on a dinghy!!)
6) Grow two more eyes in the back of your head. This helps relieve the whiplash you tend to get by trying to watch the beach and the waves behind you at the same time
7) Wait
8) Wait some more
9) Wait a little longer
10) Choose to head for shore and try not to surf your dinghy, they are NOT good surf boards
11) Hit the shore cut the motor and pull the dinghy up before the next wave breaks on the beach
12) Bail out the dinghy (from the wave that crashed over the back of the dingy on the way to shore)
13) Put on dry clothes
14) Have fun on shore and don't worry about the fact the waves look bigger from shore

Lessons in Beach Launching
1) Put on you wet clothes (the ones you took off when you got to shore)
2) If there are more than two of you, find a volunteer to swim out past the breakers (take one for the team as it were)
3) Pull the dinghy into the surf with the bow pointing out
4) Put your wheels UP
5) Stand in the surf and study the waves that are crashing over you
6) Wait until you are pretty sure that you can get past the breaking waves and jump in the dingy
7) Put the motor down (alternatively row like heck)
8) Start the motor, swear when it stalls, start it again.
9) Head straight out through the surf and try not to turn sideways
10) Get back to the boat
11) Bail out the dinghy
12) Clean the sand out of the dinghy
13) Clean the sand out of your shorts
14) Have a relaxing beverage and be happy that you aren't striping your outboard motor down because you flipped in the surf

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