Help resolve a Horlicks

Is there somewhere else you can park the dinghy while you are out? Would mean towing it to the parking place on departure and collecting it on arrival but should avoid the "tender sandwich" you describe.

Or can the tender be moored fore and aft between the piles with its stern close to the pile where you put your bows? It could then nestle neatly between the bows of the two boats while still allowing you to come alongside your neighbour - at the right side - and hang on his lines for long enough to move the dinghy alongside you and rig your own lines.
 
Dear Bob Go Sling,

"Attach the dinghy to a really big helium balloon"

How would you suggest I retrieve it . Would a very long boat hook with a knife from the galley gaffer-taped to the end be enough, or should I invest in a secondhand fighter jet? If so, how could I moor the the fighter jet between two pilles...
 
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"Or can the tender be moored fore and aft between the piles with its stern close to the pile where you put your bows? "



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This looks viable, but assumes you always point in the same direction or at least know which way you will point when you plan to return. Do you have to point into the tide when coming home?

BTW< there is a much simpler solution. Get a swinging mooring elsewhere or better still a marina berth.
 
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should I invest in a secondhand fighter jet? If so, how could I moor the the fighter jet between two pilles...

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What was that Vertical Take-Off and Landing fighter called? TSR2? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
Re: how to ascertain shoulder height

Ken,
Whens the next showing? This I gotta see !!!
Give us advance warning so we can arrange a video camera's presence for those unable to attend.
Cheers Bob E...
 
TSR2 As I recall was designed to fly very low to avoid radar
In other words a British stealth. Ordered by Tory government
Cancelled by next Labour government.
"Flying Bedstead" was the forerunner of the VTO fighter/bomber

All to the best of my memory Regards Briani
 
Difficult to be sure without seeing the constraints and possibilities, but *presume* that you want to get a couple of lines onto your neighbour's cleats p.d.q. until you can sort out your own attachments to 'the mooring lines', with a tide running, and without graunching anything?

So, is it a need to extend your reach from your boat, over your tender, onto your neighbour's?

Might this work for you? Take a non-brittle straight plastic tube about 6-8 feet long ( tender width + a couple of feet ) and feed a loop of 'thin but strong' mooring line through. Make one rope-end off on one of your deck-cleats as appropriate, and lead the other end back to a self-tailing winch or cockpit-cleat. Have one of these forward, and one aft.

On close approach, simply reach across with each plastic tube, and place the loop or rope over a suitable cleat on your neighbour's boat. Haul taut and make off as needed on the working end(s).

This idea also works well in negotiating tidal locks single-handed, using one as a bow-spring ( engine in forward tick-over, helm towards mooring pontoon ), while other breast ropes are arranged.
 
Great idea but...

This is beginning to sound like mission impossible! Neighbour is an old race boat with no cleats on foredeck. She has a some loops of line through the slotted toe rail which I have tie off to, and at the blunt end, I take a line around her s/t genoa winch. It's the least cleated boat I've ever seen. Old Contention half-tonner I think.

So the stiffie would work for her cockpit end, but not at her bow.

I'm favouring tying the dinghy fore & aft close to one pile, so that it can't swing.

If that doesn't work, I'll revert to coming alongside neighbour on her 'blind side', making fast to her temporarily, moving dinghy out of harms way, then parking properly afterwards.
 
My wife's name before she married me is Horlicks.
When Jack the Straw used the term I wrote to him to find out if he was happy to have his family name used to indicate a cockup.
He was a man of Straw, because he did not reply. So there it is then, a Straw relaces Horlick.. hence the term "I made a bit of a Straw of my mooring"
I still think cockup is best
 
If the tender was moored between the piles but right nose up to one pile or the other would you have room to moor behind it?

You could leave your mooring rope for that end coiled up in the dinghy for picking up with a boathook.

Would this obviate the need for complex shoulder to MHWS calculations?? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Couldn't you ask your neighbour to move your dinghy to the other side of his boat after he has moored up (tying it onto one of his non-existent cleats) ready for your return? .....or aren't you on speaking terms, having clouted his pride and joy once too often? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Tony
 
After a nights sleep and a few drams I’ve now had a bit of time to cogitate on this conundrum - How about a block and tackle attached to the top of one of the piles, then you can hoist your dingy up out of harms way /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
i am on piles,same system as you in pwllheli, i use an inflatable and take it with me on the sugar scoop, my neighbour leaves his hard dinghy attached to the pick up line and just lets it float toward which ever pile is down tide, you do have two mooring lines each end with a pick up line between each pair? also each pair has a joining line? also said neighbours dinghy is dead scruffy so he doesnt mind a few mussel rubs. when we come in we ignore the scruffy dinghy (both of us) and just elbow it out of the way
stu
 
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