mcframe
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Close! (Honourable Mentions to Photodog & ProDave)
I 'accidently' neglected to mention that it's a rather muddy drying mooring, and I was aproaching /too/ early on a rising tide...
My answer (yesterday, at least) was to nudge the putty so that I could run a safety warp from my stern through my upwind neighbour's bow buoy.
Wait a couple of mins, then plough gently forwards (engine *was* working, but a bit of genoa would also have done the trick) coming to a *complete* halt, perfectly inline, with the bow three feet from my mooring buoy & attached dinghy ;->
On previous occasions, when there has been much more water, I've used my moored dinghy (WB with tubes) as a giant fender to raft to the downwind boat, then gently extracted it (replacing with fenders) so I could row up to the upwind boat and get a warp on.
Thanks all - interesting answers - I might try some alternatives next time, and get SWMBO to helm more so that we're not reliant on me /always/ getting the bow three feet from the mooring. It's about a 1 in 20 event on our mooring.
Further notes - as we're on the starboard edge of the channel, and kick to port astern, it's tricky to slot in *and* hold station - passage around the other side of the moorings is marginal at anything other than HW. Spinning round and picking up the mooring at the stern is a good plan C orD, but maybe better ferry gliding under sail to avoid prop fouling - might try that next time.
On a previous trip there was *way* too little water and we stopped early in the approach channel, so I dispatched Judders in the dinghy (we'd towed it that time) to take soundings with the dinghy anchor - he's still not got back to me with the hand-drawn chart, maybe 'cos I didn't give him a tricorn hat ;-)
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