How much speed do you loose, looks like it would serve as a wind anchor?

No, not at all, it is in the back of the yacht, smaller than the yacht, and it is most likely in the wind shadow.

The yacht will not loose any measurable speed. Our tests, and they are running since 2009 – more than 6 years – are showing, that this is the very best way to transport the dinghy in every situation.

The following picture shows a situation on a yacht using TenderConnect:

Does it work with high waves?

In general, each dinghy is influenced by wind and waves at any time. With TenderConnect, the result of influence by wind and waves is much less than without!

Yes it works perfectly, even in high waves. When you want to bring the dinghy to the water, it will be accomplished in exaclty 3 seconds including notching.

When you bring connect it board, it is still quite easy, because you lift the dinghy with two ropes holding it on the cantilevers which are fitted to the dinghy. If you hit the connectors, it will be kept quite save, because it goes up and down together with the ships stern. Once you have catched the receivers, it will no longer go away.

In comparison, think about Davits: You have to latch the David ropes at three positions WITHIN the dinghy (at least in all cases we have seen) and then, pull it up.

So you have to come down to the bottom of the dinghy in order to be abel to pull it up. I can guarantee, this is much, much more easy with TenderConnect.

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Isn’t TenderConnect limitting the back sight?

Certainly is the back sight a little bit limited. But please see this:

Your yacht is between 3 meters up to 6 meters wide at the stern. A dinghy is between 1,2 meter to max 2 meters wide. So there is still a lot of room to watch via the stern although the dinghy is there.

This is a picture during mooring process in Trogir, Croatia in the spring of 2016 from the height of a normal man the stands in the middle of the ship.