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the lifeboat's smaller cousin, ready to ferry you from disaster to slightly-less-disaster.
means A small open boat, often rowed, sailed, or towed behind a larger vessel and used to ferry people or supplies to and from shore.
from From Hindi and Bengali 'ḍiṅgī,' a small rowboat that plied the rivers of South Asia. British sailors and colonists carried the word home in the early 19th century, and it eventually settled into English as the name for any little tender — the 'h' a later spelling flourish that softened the spelling but not the boat.
- name origin
- From Hindi dingi, a small river boat
- big yacht role
- Often the tender that ferries crew ashore
- inflatable kind
- Folds into a bag, inflates into a boat
- sailing class
- Many Olympic sailing events use small dinghies
- survival gear
- Inflatable versions are mandatory on many ships
moth class sailing dinghy — olympic single-handed sailing boat class, used in 2016 rio and 2020 tokyo olympics
laser sailing dinghy — most popular single-handed dinghy worldwide, olympic class since 1996
rnli inflatable lifeboat — royal national lifeboat institution's rigid inflatable dinghies, used for uk coastal rescue operations