We are in Wisconsin

[ris]

Yes we also tow on the down part of the wake. It looks like the dinghy is going down the hump of water caused by the motor. Chinook told me this was the best place to pull the dinghy before we started this trip. In large waves you have to pull it in or it will jerk a lot. We have a rope tied to the 2 rudder cleats, with a stainless ring that can slide, the painter is tied to the ring.

[NiceAft]

NiceAft: The guy who sold it to me said it weighed about forty pounds, and I lift it from the dock to my Achiles, and vice versa with reasonable effort. I just looked in the owners manual under “specifications”, and weight was not listed. It is twelve years old. Might that mean something?

When I go to the "Internet Archive Wayback Machine", for 2012, the 6HP Merc is shown as 57 lbs.

http://web.archive.org/web/201601271426 ... ke/4-6-hp/

Unfortunately, at outboards 40 hp and below, 4-strokes are heavy!!! They have done a great job at reducing weight at HPs higher than that (my 70 4-stroke Yamaha is lighter than any other brand today, 2-stroke or 4-stroke!).

Go back further. I purchased mine in 2005, so it could be even older.

Ray