[Rhodes22-list] All tied up

[cowie]

I enter my slip the same as Lee, very slow approach and then back in.  My
slip is fixed, not floating, and has four pilings one at each corner and two
piling midway.  Enclosed is a picture to illustrate the six lines that I
use, two lines at the bow on each starboard and port cleat to each outer
piling, two stern lines at the stern starboard and port cleat to eac of the
aft pilings and two spring lines from the stern cleats to the two pilings
located mid point of the slip.  The two spring lines prevent my stern and
motor from sliding back into the dock.  I prefer 1/2" lines but 3/8" are
easier to get on the cleat especially with two lines per cleat.

After positioning all of my lines, that are permanently attached to the slip
pillings, I wrap each with a piece of duct tape to record the position at
the cleat so I remember exactly how to secure the lines to keep the boat
balanced between all six pillings.  I keep a space between the fixed dock
and the boat.

I have been experimenting with a free spring line to assist entering the
slip while single handed sailing.  I have a long line about 50' and put the
two ends together, then walk the mid point up to the bow and slip it thru
the bow pulpit then bring the mid point back to the cockpit were I also have
the two end points of the line.  When backing into the slip I put the mid
point over the outermost pier on the windward side, fix one end in the
cockpit and start pulling the other end.  This keeps the bow of the boat to
windward, preventing the downwind side of the bow from hitting the other
piling and also pulls the boat back into the slip.  All of this can be done
single handed from the cockpit.  The only problem is if the spring line gets
caught up on the piling.  The same technique can be used in reverse when
leaving the slip and is especially helfpul if a strong wind is blowing.


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Leland wrote:
> 
> JJ,
>  
> I always enjoy your poetry.
>  
> Far from mundane, approaching your slip can be downright scary until
> you've had lots of practice in every conceivable wind speed and wind
> direction.  It's still scary for me and my marina mates because I'm at the
> maximal amount of intoxication when I head into my slip.
>  
> Doesn't really matter whether you back in or pull in forward; whatever
> floats your boat.  I combat park my car for quick departure so I do the
> same with my boat.  As a retired police officer I'm guessing you might do
> the same.
>  
> I putter along SLOWLY past the other slips and when I get my bow about 20
> feet from my berth I smartly (don't slowly shift) snap the gearshift into
> neutral and immediately turn 90 degrees away from the row of slips. 
> Remember that your boat will pivot around its center so keep some distance
> from the row of slips so your stern doesn't swing out and hit them.  Our
> boats turn on a dime with the centerboard up and even quicker with it
> down.  When I'm lined up to back into my slip I snap the shifter into
> reverse and give it some throttle to stop my forward progression; then
> throttle down to idle to start backing up; then shift into neutral to
> coast into my slip.  Once I get within grabbing distance of a piling or
> dock line I just manhandle the light boat into position.  After you put
> your first scratch on your rub-rail you'll find it's easiest to just let
> the boat bang its way into the slip--you won't damage anything.
>  
> Steering with a tiller isn't intuitive when going forward but it's very
> natural when going backwards.  Just point the tiller in the direction you
> want to go.
>  
> You're lucky you've got a floating dock.  I've never used one but it's got
> to be the greatest invention since canned beer.
>  
> Good luck!
>  
> Lee
> 1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
> Kent Island, MD
>  
>  
>  
> 
> ________________________________
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> From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org on behalf of Joe Camp
> Sent: Tue 6/8/2010 7:18 PM
> To: Rhodes List
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] All tied up
> 
> 
> 
> Friends:
>      I will not have my boat until the end of July, but no sense in
> letting this question go:  I have never tied up at a slip before.  Mine
> will be on a lake, in a protected marina and is a floating dock.  Please
> give me some advice on the best way to accomplish this seemingly mundane
> task.  Poem follows.
> Joe
> 
> 
>      Me
> 
>                                                             JJ Camp
> 
> "I wish that Michael
> 
> wasn't dead," she said to me
> 
> on a day after he was gone.
> 
> "Something's wrong!
> 
> I love-
> 
> I loved him Dad,
> 
> but I can't cry.
> 
> So tell me why
> 
> I even said
> 
> I was his friend,
> 
> if I can't cry."
> 
>  
> 
> "And would you cry-
> 
> Dad-
> 
> you know-
> 
> if it was me
> 
> instead of Mike?"                                    1993
> 
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