OK....so I know you're thinking, boy Steve is really getting carried away with this "the dink is you car" thing, now he's gone and put wheels on his dinghy. No I haven't gone completely crazy (mostly crazy, not completely) when you are beaching a dinghy (dink) with an outboard motor on it, it is very hard to get the motor in the up position and to drag it on and off the beach, the motor gets stuck in the sand, and the whole thing is heavy and awkward. Yesterday I installed the dinghy wheels that my friend Ric gave me (thanks again). The way the wheels work is that when you know you will be beaching the dink you get the wheels out of storage, you put them onto their brackets in the up position (pic), as you approach the beach you remove a couple of pins, rotate the wheels to the down position, and you motor right up on the beach, the wheels are taller than the motor shaft so the back of the dink is now high and dry and you can wheel it up and down the beach with very little effort (I hope).
Update on Max-prop; my prop was finished on Tuesday and is in route back now, I'm hoping I have it back on Si Bon on Monday or Tuesday and I can get back over to Coronado for a few days before the going away party on Saturday.