Portland Pudgy at Newport Boat Show

"The Pudgy seems to perform each of its various jobs well..[rowing, motoring, sailing, and self-rescue]...The Pudgy's seaworthiness will make it a great boat for beginning sailors...This is a real boat, designed to do a real job...Given a choice on an offshore passage between the Pudgy and an inflatable life raft or the average dinghy, there's no doubt which I'd choose." Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors, Boats of the Year edition, March 2007. (The Portland Pudgy was voted one of the ten best boats of the year!) What's unique about the Portland Pudgy multifunction dinghy? The Pudgy is an exceptionally rugged and stable unsinkable boat: The Portland Pudgy (7' 8", 128 lb., USCG-approved for 4 people) is a fun and dependable multifunction dinghy with safety and versatility designed in. Our bottom line is "if you need a tender, why not have one that can save your life?" The Portland Pudgy dinghy is the ideal yacht tender to row or motor. It has all the benefits of inflatable boats and RIBs (rigid inflatable boats), without the risk of deflation. It's so stable you can stand up and walk around in this small boat. The Pudgy is multifunctional: It's a rowboat, motorboat, sailing dinghy, and proactive lifeboat. The Portland Pudgy dinghy sails, rows, and tows beautifully, and it handles a small motor with ease. It is extremely buoyant and has huge carrying capacity and loads of storage room in the sidewalls of the boat. The Pudgy is a proactive lifeboat: On top of all that, the Portland Pudgy is a proactive lifeboat. Unlike liferafts, the Pudgy cannot deflate, and you can sail, row, or motor this rugged self-rescue boat to shipping lanes or land. The Portland Pudgy proactive lifeboat is a self-contained system: all of the survival equipment (exposure canopy, sailing rig, sea anchor) plus a ditch bag, fishing equipment, provisions, and more, stows within the sidewalls of the boat.