Inflatables may periodically need a little air. They may periodically need air released from them. It is good to read the manual about how to inflate and deflate your brand dinghy, before you need to do it.
When we bought our AB a year ago, it was delivered tight as a drum. I was assured it was properly inflated, using a gauge. It was hot outside. Only yesterday did we ever have to adjust the air in the dinghy. Some had to be added. The dinghy had become too limp due to cold fall nights and cool days, and maybe a little leakage.
But then it got warm again, and some air needed to be released. I should have done this at the mother ship, or at a beach or a dock. With four persons onboard on the way to the St Michaels dinghy dock, I pushed the red button behind one of the three valve covers. Whoosh! Much of the air came out of the tube I was sitting on, instantly. Worse, I learned the red button is detented! You have to press it once to open it, again to close it. By the time I figured that out almost all of the air was out of the one tube. It is good to know that two tubes of the AB dinghy will easily support an idiot and three other people, a fifty pound motor, and twenty pounds of fuel!
(The Avon Lite dinghy valve is momentary. Press and hold it to exhaust air. Release it to close the valve.)
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