[Rhodes22-list] All tied up

[Mary Lou Troy]

At 10:47 AM 6/9/2010, Joe wrote:
>  On the docking matter: Â I like your advice, 
> which seems logical in my unschooled thinking 
> process on boating. Â On my floating finger 
> dock, shared with a neighbor on one side, how 
> tightly should I tie up? Â Should I pull the 
> boat tight to the fenders or leave a space to move?

Joe, are you going to only be able to tie up on 
one side? or is there a piling separating the two 
boats? or do you mean that the neighbor is on the 
other side of the floating finger pier? Lots of 
possibilities which is why this becomes a complex 
question - every docking situation seems to be 
different. If you only tie up on one side, I 
suspect tight to the finger pier makes sense. 
While we really like floating docks, we have very 
little experience with them here on the 
Chesapeake. I think when we tied up at the Inner 
Harbor Marina in Baltimore, there were two boats 
to a slip with floating docks. In that case we 
tied up tight to the floating pier using the 
Taylor fenders we mentioned before. Spring lines 
were a must to keep the boat from moving with any 
wave action. Again check to see how others in your marina tie up.

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD