WestwardBound
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I hope to get to Salcombe and points west this year.
It will be in August when it will be busy. Seems 100% probable that I'll be needing to raft up on moorings.
Being of an extraodinarily misanthropic nature in 6 years of Solent cruising I've only rafted on a mooring once before, in Newtown, in this case a smaller yacht just came along side us for a visit.
So what's the drill? Despite my curmudgeonly demeaner I expect I can just about manage the pleasantries but what is the appropriite technique?
If another boat is on the mooring surely the only practical way is to come alongside and then use the dinghy to set lines on the buoy or buoys ?
I've seen photos in the cruising companion of moorings with four boats moored fore and aft.
I can't seen getting out of the middle positions without much pushing off and snagged fenders. I can see this would not be to hard with less massive boats but around 12m the boats are getting heavier with greater windage etc. I think this would be best done with the crews of the other boats around so leaving times would I guess need to be negotiated?
So what is the best way to get of an inside position of such a raft?
At least I can hope that most other people daft enough to be cruising at that time will be doing it because they have children aboard as well.
It will be in August when it will be busy. Seems 100% probable that I'll be needing to raft up on moorings.
Being of an extraodinarily misanthropic nature in 6 years of Solent cruising I've only rafted on a mooring once before, in Newtown, in this case a smaller yacht just came along side us for a visit.
So what's the drill? Despite my curmudgeonly demeaner I expect I can just about manage the pleasantries but what is the appropriite technique?
If another boat is on the mooring surely the only practical way is to come alongside and then use the dinghy to set lines on the buoy or buoys ?
I've seen photos in the cruising companion of moorings with four boats moored fore and aft.
I can't seen getting out of the middle positions without much pushing off and snagged fenders. I can see this would not be to hard with less massive boats but around 12m the boats are getting heavier with greater windage etc. I think this would be best done with the crews of the other boats around so leaving times would I guess need to be negotiated?
So what is the best way to get of an inside position of such a raft?
At least I can hope that most other people daft enough to be cruising at that time will be doing it because they have children aboard as well.