Kukri
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My boat is a fraction the size of yours but even on mine I’d be reluctant to step onto pontoon until at least one line is made fast. Are you saying that you step onto pontoon with a line in hand before any other line has been made fast? If things go tits up I’d rather be on the boat than on the pontoon watching the unmanned boat going off on its merry way.
Well, yes. The boat is heavy and has quite low windage so in any normal conditions there is ample time to step down and throw a line round a pontoon cleat, assuming that she has stopped, relative to the pontoon. That’s never been an issue.
The lasso a cleat idea works if (a) there is a suitable cleat to lasso (b) the wind doesn’t blow your loop of line back at you, (c) you are good at lassoing things.
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