Quote: Originally posted by Cancamo  | All depends on what you are doing on the water, and where.
If you don't want to be limited to the location of a ramp or marina, you need something light enough to launch over the beach. Tin boats with wheels
work well for near shore daily activities weather permitting.
Kayaks, inflatables, small sailboats and catamarans are also easy to launch, will get you on the water, although limited in range, and space.
For fishing, diving, boat camping, live well capacity, sea worthiness, and ease of launch and return nothing beats a panga in SOC waters.
Other hulls the same size or smaller can weigh so much that running up the beach out of the surf zone like a panga is not an option, and launching
over a beach can be difficult, if at all possible, short of using a tractor.
In order to access remote locations where no marina or ramp is available, (90% of the peninsula), the ability to reduce weight in order to launch
over the beach without burying your truck and trailer, and endangering yourself in the danger zone is a must. Many folks learn the hard way after
swamping their vessel, or worse, incurring an injury. Baja has it's way of thinning the herd.
Panga, 18-22 ft, 40-65HP. would be my in my wheelhouse, short of a live aboard.
Just look at what the people whom make a living every day on the water here use. Almost the entire in-shore commercial fishing and water
transportation community throughout Latin America uses a form of the same hull. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Regardless, any form to get on and enjoy the water is what it is all about.
Que la via bien!
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I hear you, very good advice. I want to be able to do multi day trips from Loreto to LA Paz. With an occasional trip over to San Carlos on the
mainland.
Need twins and something that can handle good sized waves.
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