Help resolve a Horlicks

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I believe Horlicks is now the official Scuttlebutt synonym for a screw-up, and I made one at the weekend. Trouble is I don't know how to avoid a repeat performance.

The lovely Indigo is now parked on a pile mooring which is shared with another boat. Access is by a hard tender (too hard and too heavy to stow aboard, and not something one wants to tow uneccessarily). So I left it on the mooring, tied off far enough along the mooring lines that it wouldn't clobber a pile when the tide turned. It nudges my neghbour, but is well fendered.

On returning, I'm faced with making a tender sandwich tween self and neighbour, not good for tender longevity, and duecedly awkward for getting lines onto aforementioned neighbour.

This situation was not something covered in my apprenticeship, but I'm sure many canny folk know how to solve this problem. Help!
 
Question is "how does your neighbour do it?"

Or raft up along side your neighbour for a few minutes while you remove your tender then come round other side and tie up properly.
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I would string a jackstay with two sliding rings on it between the piles at about shoulder height when you are stood on your side deck. Tie your dingy off to the rings (one at bow & one at stern). On your return the dingy will probably be at the down current /wind end so you have the option to either come in around it or the ‘bow man’ can push it to the opposite end.

You never know, it might work
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[/ QUOTE ]Thought that would be the answer. OK, assuming dimensions are sufficient, put a spanning rope between the piles and tie the dinghy to the middle. When you return the dinghy will be down tide, you will be coming up-tide (even if you have one of those p-i-a situations where you HAVE to park pointing into the ebb) and the dinghy will be down by the down-current pile, so you should have no difficulty. The spanning rope should be no trouble for your 'sharer', one hopes??
 
you leave the berth at high tide having secured the dinghy, tightly and on as short a line as pos, at one or other of the piles ... you return at low tide

good, eh ... ?!
 
One of the best solutions that I have seen is to create a "pontoon" between the two vessels using 2 mooring buoys seperated by a galvanised pole, with those buoys attached to the rings on piles. and with some form of rope attached to this rig that you pick up when berthing. additional benefit is that the mooring buoys act as big fenders between the two vessels. you then add a pulley system for the dinghy which allows you to move the dinghy close to the pile when leaving the berth, and then allows you to pull it back to you after securing boat.
 
Another variation on this technique is to scuttle the tender on departure, then activate the flotation bags upon returning. This leaves just the small float at the end of the activation line to avoid as you berth. It doesn't work so well on tenders with outboards.
 
"I would string a jackstay with two sliding rings on it between the piles at about shoulder height when you are stood on your side deck."

Can't quite work out how to ascertain shoulder height when there is a 4.9 metre rise of tide?

So far, best idea is to land on t'other side of neighbour, nip across, move dinghy to least vulnerable posn, then cast off and come back to park properly.
 
leave it on a long line and nudge it out of way with boat hook when you come back in. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

If its on a short line , it can not move easily, If you are good you can aim to move it out of the way as you come in, /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: how to ascertain shoulder height

"Does your shoulder height above deck level change with the phases of the moon."

No, but my boat goes up and down on the tide raising or lowering my shoulder, but I've noticed that although made of wood – and thus in theory buoyant – the piles stay resolutely at the same height above CD, as would any line strung between them.
 
Re: how to ascertain shoulder height

I fink he means his deck and shoulders would go up and down at different times of the day, but the suggested jackstay would be at a constant height. Hence there would be a problem, more often than not. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Re: how to ascertain shoulder height

"leave it on a long line and nudge it out of way with boat hook when you come back in."

Whilst the idea of jousting with a tender has undoubted entertainment value, I'm worried that if I do that, it'll end up nipping off downstream and nibbling the boats moored on the next piles. Or even if it doesn't get that far, getting covered in muck and mussels from cosying up to the pile itself.
 
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