Boarding a floating mooring from a tender

[CreakyDecks]

Hi all

After sailing a dinghy for a few years I have bought a larger boat and tender. One thing occurred to me this evening... How do I climb aboard my boat on a floating mooring after rowing out to it??

It's a hard dinghy, with a jaguar 22

Any advice much appreciated

Thanks

I actually find it much easier getting into mine (jag21) from my dinghy than getting into it when it is on the ground. It's a lot lower!

 

[reginaldon]

I actually find it much easier getting into mine (jag21) from my dinghy than getting into it when it is on the ground. It's a lot lower!

Me both!
boat - 19' Caprice, me - octogenarian with dicky knees, tender - cheap inflatable with my own ply floor.

 

[Litotes]

I was taught to remove the crutches as soon as you take the oars out of them.

Me too. Ship the oar (blade forward) and remove the crutch - which is, of course, attached by a lanyard so that it can't escape. Second nature.

And, of course, those of us that were taught to do that were also taught the difference between a crutch and a rowlock

 

[status]

Here's one I made earlier.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Don't forget tenders move a lot more than pontoons!!

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Brilliant!

 

[Lakesailor]

Doesn't matter how many times I watch it. Cracks me up every time.

 

[Davegriff]

We do this with a small hard tender, a Jag 25 and quite a fast tide:

Make the dinghy painter fast to the first stanchion up from stern. We then have a line permanently attached to a cleat towards the stern of the Jag, long enough to slip under the dinghy thwart next to the gunwale and back up to the cleat. Pull line up tight.

Anywhere between the dinghy centre and this line is pretty stable and avoids the long stretch from dinghy centre to Jag gunwale.

Nylon rowlocks a bit "springy" but do far less damage to boat or body!