Lazy lines without hands?

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Probably more of a Med issue, but picking up the lazy lines by hand/glove is pretty lousy, I use a boat hook and drag the line, but it often snags... does anyone know of a boat hook or adaptor with a small roller built in? It would make it much easier & ‘hygienic’ :encouragement:
 
Trouble with that Pete you will get the squeegee effect on the wheels and excremental drippings all over the topsides and worse on your vilbrequins .
I use a long 2m + boot hook and keep the line very low just above the water .
But having said that I do have to manually pull the last bit at the bow x2 btw .
Ours are one continuous rope .However some visiting berths in away marinas do have knots so the one needs bringing up to manhandle passing the obstruction.

I think they start out one continuous line but get snagged and cut , then knots appear.
 
Bouba said:
Bit of overkill. You can only use it on your home berth, what I do is replace the lazyline with my own, clean, leaded line. When moored up, I lift my lazyline out of the water to keep it as slimefree as possible. A cheap clean system but only for your own berth
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I do exactly the same. I leave the original lazy lines attached and in the water. Additionally I attach my beautifully clean leaded lines with a bowline at each end. These I lay along my deck. When I go out I drop my lines in the water and pick them up when I come back in. Because they are clean it’s easy to just use my bare hands to pull them along. They then lie along the decks as usual and get freshwater washed with the boat and because they never spend more than a day or two underwater, and often less, they don’t get fouled and dirty. At the end of the season I remove them, wash them again and save them for next year ! Saves all the aggro.
 
Boatbore said:
I do exactly the same. I leave the original lazy lines attached and in the water. Additionally I attach my beautifully clean leaded lines with a bowline at each end. These I lay along my deck. When I go out I drop my lines in the water and pick them up when I come back in. Because they are clean it’s easy to just use my bare hands to pull them along. They then lie along the decks as usual and get freshwater washed with the boat and because they never spend more than a day or two underwater, and often less, they don’t get fouled and dirty. At the end of the season I remove them, wash them again and save them for next year ! Saves all the aggro.
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Ok for home berth, but a bit fiddly when on visiting other marinas, especially if only one night.
 
pan said:
Ok for home berth, but a bit fiddly when on visiting other marinas, especially if only one night.
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Definitely. It wouldn’t make sense as a visitor. I have used a very large carabiner clip on a short line. Clip it on and drag it along the lazy line, but it snags pretty easily especially as visitor berths often have knots etc where the line has been cut. For a one off visit I am not sure there is a perfect solution as a lot depends on the condition of the lines that you meet, their length etc !
 
These devices all seem a bit complicated and too easy to drop in the water. Thanks to the advice many years ago of tcm, ex member of this forum, all we do when leaving our home berth is to place our lazy lines on top of one or two of the fenders on the boats either side. We have even agreed this with the owners. The important bit is to place the lazy lines outside the fender lines so if one or other of the boats either side decides to go out, the lazy lines will fall off the fenders as the boat moves. Of course most of the time the boats either side havent moved so when we come back into our berth its an easy job to reach over and pick up our lazy lines off the fenders by hand or with a boat hook. Hey presto minimum dirty hands and fewer drips on the side of the boat

In a visitor mooring if you really dont want to get your hands dirty €10 or €20 in the hand of a marinero will usually get the job done without getting your hands mucky at all
 
MedMilo said:
Yes, they're good and mean that you can walk forward with the lazy line hanging between you and the next door boat relatively easily. Works well...
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Unless you are in Cala d'Or where the s@%t clogs the wheels, rots your gloves and even the kids, let alone SWMBO, refuse to touch anything :) . Ergo you are a one man docking machine!!
 
My parents use roller clip, it has proved really effective and easy for them.

You don't really get any drips on the boat as you still hang it over the water as you walk the line, and it's light enough that adding a key chain float to it makes it easy to retrieve if it does go overboard.
 
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In a visitor mooring if you really dont want to get your hands dirty €10 or €20 in the hand of a marinero will usually get the job done without getting your hands mucky at all
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You have got to be careful when asking dock masters to do such things.
I had to shout at one once after he had jumped onto my fore deck and started fiddling with my anchor windlass.
Not sure a payment should be €10 or €20 - more like a bag of peanuts!!
 
Hurricane said:
I had to shout at one once after he had jumped onto my fore deck and started fiddling with my anchor windlass.
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I've noticed that too. They love to use the anchor winch to pull the bow lines tight rather than put their back into it. Idle foreigners I suppose. Good thing we're leaving
 
Hurricane said:
You have got to be careful when asking dock masters to do such things.
I had to shout at one once after he had jumped onto my fore deck and started fiddling with my anchor windlass.
Not sure a payment should be €10 or €20 - more like a bag of peanuts!!
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Isn't that the usual thing to do with larger boats (use for foredeck windlass to tighten the bow line)?
 
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