Fun Noodle Rub rail

My Tortoise has been a great dinghy except for the racket it makes
banging up against my sailboat hull. Reading the posts about Fun
Noodles gave me a solution. I attached a collar of orange fun Noodles
($1.89 each at the local K-Mart). I used plastic electric cable ties.

I have an outboard motor mount on my Tortoise. It goes great with my
old 2 hp Johnson. When my wife and I use it to putter around the
harbor in protected water, I sit on the after deck and steer, no
hands, by leaning in the direction I want to turn.