Its also a yacht tender?!
The Portland Pudgy is an exceptional yacht tender. Its a 7 foot 8 inch dinghy approved by the USCG for 4 people (twice the capacity of any other 8 foot dinghy). It’s stable, safe, and rugged, and has huge carrying capacity. One Pudgy owner, who made it through the Northwest Passage with his wife and kids (on a wooden sailboat), credits his Portland Pudgy with saving his big boat when it ran aground: “because it rows so well in rough weather and can handle two 45 pound anchors being dropped in it for kedging off a reef. It is a real workboat built for real world conditions. In the sailing we do a dingy can mean the difference between life or death, and this isn’t in reference to the lifeboat abilities of the pudgy just its stability and durability.” Another Portland Pudgy owner was able to save the life of a fellow sailor, because the Pudgy was so stable and buoyant and handled so well: “He had been in the water for almost 30 minutes and was suffering from extreme hypoxia. I reached him
