While I too mostly agree with the general theme the others have put forward, there is another consideration IMO.
You asked about a set up that is light. What I described (as my set up) is fairly light, but for most things it does the job reasonably well. Is it is fast or as comfortable as the 14 foot, 50 hp centre console dinghy, no.
As an illustration of another consideration, in the summer of 2018 we buddy boated with good friends who have a KK 52 (overall 60 feet) a much larger vessel than ours. They have a larger dinghy, and store it up top, requiring a crane to deploy. When we went crabbing or exploring with only 3 of us, we took our dinghy because they didn't like the issues with deploying theirs and ours was in the water in about 2 minutes. There is something to be said for convenience!
As stated, with our 2 stroke 8 hp we can plane with 2 people and achieve about 14 knots SOG.
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Tom
Nanaimo, BC
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