[Rhodes22-list] Hunting

[Bill Effros]

Andrew,

I haven't tried this, because I come from the "If it ain't broke, don't 
fix it" school, but I believe there are 2 things you might try to lessen 
hunting:

1.  Moor from your bow eye instead of your bow cleat.  (Put a slack back 
up on the bow cleat.)

2.  Loop a line from the bow cleat, over the port side, through your 
mooring line eye, and back over the bow cleat from the starboard side.  
They recommend this for bare boats in the BVI to lessen hunting, and 
reduce chafing.

Chafing has been a zero problem for me over the 8 years my Rhodes has 
been on a mooring in Greenwich Cove.

I have a chafe guard over my mooring line where it rubs on the rub 
rail.  I have never even thought about replacing the chafe guard because 
it does not chafe.

I spend a lot of time on my mooring in my boat, and it does not hunt 
very much.  Sometimes on anchor it hunts much more.  Part of it is where 
your boat happens to be.

Bill Effros


R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> Andrew,
> It's what is called hunting as others have stated. It is a common trait  with 
> the R22 on a mooring. It's caused by a combination of things inherent with  
> the R22 design, not a flaw.
> I don't know of any sure cure for this.
>  
> Rummy
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