Ostend

[Sixpence]

Where is that rolling around on the floor senseless smiley when you want it!

Even if I could go backwards I don't want to risk the wind vane either!!

Ah, a pointy end in job, Didn't know that. Now you've got problems
Seriously though, swing hard right as you enter, then go alongside rather than on the buoys. If Robert wants you to move you'll know it soon enough, but you'll have time to sort things out and even cadge help if needed. It's nowhere near as bad as some make out
Honest

 

[Athene V30]

Honest

Would you buy a used car from this man!!!

 

[sailorman]

Would you buy a used car from this man!!!

No but we are familiar with the procedure, assuming "One is mentally prepared" to do it

 

[Sixpence]

Being a fully paid up member of the RIDGAF Yacht Club helps, theory and practice, Ostend mooring techniques qualified, essential
RIDGAF Yacht Club, the only one worth joining, helps immensely when you do something like jumping onto a seagull poop covered pontoon and go sliding straight over to the far side, with mooring strings in hand. They make great brakes, oops

 

[Jomo]

With Limbo, very similar to Karouise, and definately no reversing, I laid out 35m of line in the cockpit having tied the end off on the stern cleat. I fed the end round the rear of the boat, and laid the short end just inside the starboard side of the cockpit. Bow line also prepped. AS you approach the bouy, those of us with small boats and low freeboard can lean over and thread the short end through the loop. Keep driving forward, and as you close the pontoon (slowly) you can use the stern line as a sort of brake. Hopefully, there'll be someone on the pontoon to take your bow line, otherwise it's best foot forward, and a short hop for a fit ex-serviceman to secure the bow line.
Not trying to teach the Navy, but I was pretty worried about doing it myself, first time in

Ian (ex Air Force )

Oh yeah, getting out was just a matter of using the stern line to pull myself out with enough momentum to get past the bouy and then drive off forward !

 

[sailorman]

With Limbo, very similar to Karouise, and definately no reversing, I laid out 35m of line in the cockpit having tied the end off on the stern cleat. I fed the end round the rear of the boat, and laid the short end just inside the starboard side of the cockpit. Bow line also prepped. AS you approach the bouy, those of us with small boats and low freeboard can lean over and thread the short end through the loop. Keep driving forward, and as you close the pontoon (slowly) you can use the stern line as a sort of brake. Hopefully, there'll be someone on the pontoon to take your bow line, otherwise it's best foot forward, and a short hop for a fit ex-serviceman to secure the bow line.
Not trying to teach the Navy, but I was pretty worried about doing it myself, first time in

Ian (ex Air Force )

Oh yeah, getting out was just a matter of using the stern line to pull myself out with enough momentum to get past the bouy and then drive off forward !

The Navy use the Admiral`s umberella to lift the By ring & pass the hawser through

 

[Jomo]

The Navy use the Admiral`s umberella to lift the By ring & pass the hawser through

What was that....... the Admiral's ring?.....Oh no missread it, now wher's my specs!

 

[sailorman]

What was that....... the Admiral's ring?.....Oh no missread it, now wher's my specs!

it was only a shiny tanner on the sole ( or was it a 1/2 crown)

 

[Jomo]

it was only a shiny tanner on the sole ( or was it a 1/2 crown)

))

 

[Marmalade]

I tend to raft up on the first thing I see and then slip into a mooring the next morning.

a) not executing fancy-dan manoeuvres when knackered and
b) do it early and there are fewer people around

we go in backwards as we're too high in the bows for comfortable climbing on and off and the sugar scoop is v suitable when moored near a pontoon. main trick is figuring out the running of the line and making sure it's not caught somewhere.

 

[Koeketiene]

we go in backwards as we're too high in the bows for comfortable climbing on and off and the sugar scoop is v suitable when moored near a pontoon. main trick is figuring out the running of the line and making sure it's not caught somewhere.

What's puts me off doing that is the following:
Boats our size are supposed to pick up a mooring buoy on the western side of the marina.
You are then stern-to right next to the Visserskaai - and you have the world and his wife gawping down your cockpit and companionway.
For the sake of some privacy I'm willing to put up with the discomfort of having to clamber over the pulpit when moored bow-to.

 

[jerrytug]

I wonder which British HM's the Belgian and Dutch crews remember by name and character,at the passage planning stage

 

[sailorman]

I wonder which British HM's the Belgian and Dutch crews remember by name and character,at the passage planning stage

Johan HM @ Middleburg & Hans before him

 

[Koeketiene]

I wonder which British HM's the Belgian and Dutch crews remember by name and character,at the passage planning stage

George (Ramsholt) is not unknown

 

[MoodySabre]

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[Koeketiene]

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Good God - that's an 'old' picture. (Pre-refit Guapa)
When was it taken?

 

[MoodySabre]

Good God - that's an 'old' picture. (Pre-refit Guapa)
When was it taken?

2008

 

[Tradewinds]

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Seems like there's an awful lot of bird sh!t in the foreground on the pontoons.

Is it dive bomb alley?

 

[Koeketiene]

Seems like there's an awful lot of bird sh!t in the foreground on the pontoons.

Is it dive bomb alley?

Quite near to the fish market - seagull central.

 

[sailorman]

Seems like there's an awful lot of bird sh!t in the foreground on the pontoons.

Is it dive bomb alley?

The area is fully self cleaning