T&T: 10-foot RHIB experience

[Rich Gano]

Does anybody have a light-weight RHIB (around 100 pounds and power capacity
around 10 HP) that has good structural integrity?

I am looking at the West Marine model 310, which seems to fill my
requirements.

I have been the 13-foot whaler route, the West Marine 8-foot inflatable with
floorboard and blow-up keel with 2.5 HP route, float-bottomed 10-foot
inflatable with 5 HP route, and currently have a Bombard 10-foot inflatable
with floorboard and blow-up keel (which will not keep its bottom attached to
the tubes).

The best of the inflatables was the West marine unit which I flat wore out
over a period of about ten years - lots of use.  This crappy Bombard I have
has rarely been in the water and has been well covered for the 7 years I
have owned it, and it just falls apart.

Rich Gano
CALYPSO (GB-42-295)
Southport, FL