[Rhodes22-list] Dock Lines Redux

[elle]

Mary Lou,
As it can sometimes be tricky tying my boat up when I have been out by myself, after watching the tides for quite a while, I put a loop at the ends of the bow lines so I could just slip 'em over the bow cleat.(Both pt & stbd.) Holds the boat in the space while I'm working the other lines. After I'm settled at the dock I then go up & loop them correctly around the cleat. On the stbd line, I actually have two loops...one near the end that gives me working room to pull the boat around  to get to the other pilings & lines...; once I have all the lines , I then use the second loop on stbd bow line which positions the boat properly. Works great & allows me to keep the boat aligned by the dock no mater what the wind is doing.  

elle 

Beer is good....people are crazy

1992 Rhodes 22    Recycled '06"Watermusic"  {Lady in Red}

--- On Fri, 5/14/10, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net> wrote:

From: Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Dock Lines Redux
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Date: Friday, May 14, 2010, 3:59 PM

What he said.

I think most of ours are 3/8" but there are a few that are 1/2" that 
we use for the aft cleats. We like 3 strand nylon but have found that 
the cheaper 3 strand nylon gets very stiff to the point of being 
unusable. We do have a couple braided docklines that are spares for 
when we are out cruising. When we go cruising we leave our regular 
docklines in our slip and use the spares in transient slips. When we 
are really organized, we'll remember to mark the lines for our slip 
with a piece of yarn for where they hit the cleat so we don't have to 
be continually saying "does that look right?"  Here on the Chesapeake 
our normal tidal swing is only a couple of feet but storms or steady 
winds from the north or south can combine for as much as a 4 foot 
difference from highest to lowest. Because our marina (and most on 
the Chesapeake) has fixed piers and pilings, it can be a real problem 
getting your boat tied off properly.

Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 03:36 PM 5/14/2010, you wrote:

>Porter,
>
>Sorry about this glamour shot but it's the only picture I have that shows my
>single bow cleat:
>
>http://old.nabble.com/file/p28563556/At%2BEase-Hammock-Facing%2BAft.jpg
>At+Ease-Hammock-Facing+Aft.jpg
>The aft lines in the picture are 1/2" and the forward lines are 3/8".  I
>prefer the 1/2" lines because they're more manly and everyone else at the
>marina uses them (or larger).  However 3/8" lines are more than adequate to
>secure our 3,000 pound boats.
>
>The issue is the size and number of your cleats.  The aft cleats on my boat
>are large enough to easily handle 1/2" lines.  Some Rhodes have two forward
>cleats but I only have one.  My forward single cleat can handle two 1/2"
>lines but barely, and the single bow cleat on some Rhodes is smaller.
>
>This is the only situation I can think of where size really is important.
>
>Lee
>1986 Rhodes22  AT EASE
>Kent Island, MD
>
>
>
>
>I was searching through the older posts and came across a discussion on dock
>line size.  It seemed most people used 3/8'', but some opted for 1/2".
>
>What do the 2010 Rhodies recommend?
>
>Happy Friday,
>
>Porter
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