We had 5 glorious seasons in Mazatlan, San Blas and Puerto Vallarta meeting lots of cruising sailors and basking in sunshine. Before leaving San Francisco we purchased a new Bullfrog dinghy and a 15hp Yamaha motor. The combination is fantastically stable and unbelievably quick. I've spent countless hours miles offshore communing with whales, manta rays and sea turtles in Banderas Bay.

It was time to find a better way to carry the new (and heavier) dinghy aboard so I designed new davits and a folding swim platform while in Puerto Vallarta. Luckily I found a marine engineer slipped a few hundred yards away who had a floating fab shop aboard. With his hydraulic bender, tig welder, and every other tool you could think of we fabricated a pretty good system.