The flat bottoms also steer like a beach ball (very poorly).
A transient that sailed through my area a few weeks ago had a dink with an inflatable keel. It separated from the tubes & caused him to buy a new dink while he was here. I don't know how common that problem is.
Any of the soft bottomed dinks concern me when I pull up onto a beach with shells. I am concerned about cutting a small hole in the material. I've only had the one soft bottom dink. I've been very careful when beaching it. Oyster beds & areas with barnacles are no-go zones for any inflatable, as far as I am concerned.
A transient that sailed through my area a few weeks ago had a dink with an inflatable keel. It separated from the tubes & caused him to buy a new dink while he was here. I don't know how common that problem is.
Any of the soft bottomed dinks concern me when I pull up onto a beach with shells. I am concerned about cutting a small hole in the material. I've only had the one soft bottom dink. I've been very careful when beaching it. Oyster beds & areas with barnacles are no-go zones for any inflatable, as far as I am concerned.