Jamesuk
Well-Known Member
Scenario: you have a jetty which has a 10 ft wide opening but a depth of perhaps less then 80cm at the wall and you need to land there for a few hours. The wind is onshore and the waves are large enough to flash up vertically at the wall but only 1 in 10 (looking down,i just counted).
The challenge is to secure an 11ft dinghy with 8hp 2 stroke without geting feet wet.
You have to secure the dinghy safely you can use any ideas/experience that comes to mind.
What i did, i dropped out a stern anchor waited until it was secure then fed out enough line to be at the dock using power to keep me in the space (to windward) otherwise i could have hit the rocks to leeward. I then holding the kill cord around my arm left the motor in gear with the bow line i then lassoed it around the bollard killing the engine in the process and with the weight and stretch of the line pulling me slowly back off of the dock to a distance of about 1.5 metres away. I didnt get my feet wet but i could see afterwards some water splashing up as i looked down on the dinghy lurching back and forth during my 2 hours sorting out the flat.
The only other idea I had for future would be to have carried more line. Arrived at the dock lassoed the bollard then reversed out drop a bow anchor waited until it was dug in then lift the outboard and then fed out bow line and pulled in slack at the stern. This of course would be much better for 'not' taking on seawater over the stern when at rest. But getting off the boat would in itself been an exciting effort.
The challenge is to secure an 11ft dinghy with 8hp 2 stroke without geting feet wet.
You have to secure the dinghy safely you can use any ideas/experience that comes to mind.
What i did, i dropped out a stern anchor waited until it was secure then fed out enough line to be at the dock using power to keep me in the space (to windward) otherwise i could have hit the rocks to leeward. I then holding the kill cord around my arm left the motor in gear with the bow line i then lassoed it around the bollard killing the engine in the process and with the weight and stretch of the line pulling me slowly back off of the dock to a distance of about 1.5 metres away. I didnt get my feet wet but i could see afterwards some water splashing up as i looked down on the dinghy lurching back and forth during my 2 hours sorting out the flat.
The only other idea I had for future would be to have carried more line. Arrived at the dock lassoed the bollard then reversed out drop a bow anchor waited until it was dug in then lift the outboard and then fed out bow line and pulled in slack at the stern. This of course would be much better for 'not' taking on seawater over the stern when at rest. But getting off the boat would in itself been an exciting effort.
