Another scenario

Any suggestion that relies on you being able to get a line secured between the boat and the pontoon in the few seconds available will eventually fail. You'll be left with no plan B and an expensive collision.

Step one I think is to tell the marina that it's unsafe to berth alongside an incompatible neighbour and they should relocate one of you.

Step two is to go for b****y great fenders.
 
Tee Hee....

How right I suspect you are....../forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I've already got the bloody great fenders as part of my precautions....

Secondly, my name is top of the list for the next berth that comes up elsewhere within the marina..........
 
No.... just convinced him to find me a slot when none really existed......

A mooring is just too much hard work for me at the moment with two young kids, and given that I have quite a few jobs to do on the boat.... it would be at least two tender trips each time....
 
Ha ha... that's my old berth in Neptune methinks! Moved out 2-3 years ago to a swinging mooring - much easier.

I could get in OK by going dead slow & then putting the helm over hard with a swift burst of engine to swing in. Getting out again in reverse was more of a challenge...
 
We used to have a 35ft long keeled boat in Neptune, which wouldnt turn, stop, reverse - engine shot and most unreliable. Moored next to a large mobo, which was swapped for an even larger mobo, several slots in from the hammerhead. You just try saying the berth was incompatible and demand a new and easier berth!!! We sold the boat and gave up the struggle. Now to crash OPB's!
 
Neil,

They've made it even more difficult by removing the portakabin by the marina office, putting in a load of finger pontoons, and putting a load of 40 footers on them, all the way round to the lift/fuel pontoon.....

Strange conincidence though... that we have swapped work related e-mails with each other completely outside of the world of boating oblivious to a shared interest... and yet have shared a common pontoon... a truly small world....!
 
Suse,

I'm not going to complain about it... now i've got the hang of it, its OK..... not perfect, but doable.... and I am grateful to them for finding me a space when I needed one, even though they were really quite full. They went out of their way to try and help, and I appreciate that.... they have offered me a chance to move when a space becomes available.... but i'll survive.. the positive mental attitude bit is that if I can get in there, then I can get in anywhere else without fear or concern!

As an aside... all you Cambridge folks.... aren't any of you going to come along to the East Midlands get together planned for 22nd in Northampton?.... its not that far is it? (see virtual pub for details)
 
Re:Hmmm.

If you havn't got room you can't do it then.

In a strong wind approach you need to be bow pointing into the wind for as long as possible. With a down wind approach and a porthand turn into your berth this isn't possible. Your bow will be hard to get up into the wind and every force at play is moving you towards your neighbour. Is there enough room for you to "hook" your approach to get the required bows on angle? Of course if, once you stop, your ropework is slow you'll blow down onto him in either approaches. There's just less force involved if you approach into the wind.

Sounds like you need two big round fenders to me.
 
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