[Rhodes22-list] Spring lines - reply to Wally

[elle]

Thanks, Ed...where did you tie the aft spring line to?
Also midship? 

Thanks for the reference; will check it out when I
return from Richmond this PM.

elle


--- Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> Elle:
> 
> Spring lines work at a dock, I cannot comprehend why
> they would not work as
> Bob described.  My boat sat on the first row of
> docks to prevailing winds
> and storms, so I always over tied.  I used both fore
> and aft spring lines. 
> The fore spring line comes up over the side
> amidships.
> 
> I also use 'Snubber' on fore dock line and garden
> hose covering of lines
> that rub ruff places so they do not chafe ware
> break.  See west marine
> catalog, 2007, page 241.  The dock lines
> demonstrated in west are not
> adequate for my location.
> 
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> Addendum:
> "When people thought the earth was flat, they were
> wrong.  When people
> thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong.
> But if you think that
> thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as
> thinking the earth is
> flat, then your view is wronger than both of them
> put together."  Asimov's
> axiom as quoted by Michael Shermer
> 
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "Water Music"   (Lady in Red)

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