Tenders and moorings (daft questions...)

[misterg]

How do you get a rigid tender tied to a swinging mooring and the boat off (i.e to leave the tender on the mooring) without them knocking chunks out of each other? Probably more importantly, how do you get back onto the mooring when the tender is laying down-tide, and you want to approach the same spot up-tide?

Puzzled.

Andy

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[davidwf]

Firstly make sure you have a reasonable fender around the tender, wilks do a rubber D section for the gunnels. Or use a thick rope around the gunnels.

I always found having the tender tied to my mooring made getting back onto it so much easier, I used to drop the mooring rope into the tender as I left, just cast off and drift away from the tender, and on returning I just nudged up to the tender and picked up the rope draped over the tender with a boat hook.

Have to be careful which side you approach or leave from so when leaving have the tender to the windward side so you drop away from it and when returning approach to windward of the tender so you gently nudge down onto it.

Worked all the time for me.

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[jerryat]

Hi David,

Totally agree. Exactly what I do too and where I moor (River Tamar) dropping the pick-up lines into the dinghy also keeps them dry and clear of the muddy water.
Keeps the decks much cleaner.

Good sailing!



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[Evadne]

I might try that as well. I usually leave the tender on a 5-6 foot line which makes a big target for me to aim at and SWMBO to fish out of the water with the short boat hook. I've never had a problem gently nudging the dinghy out of the way, as you have to be going at 0 knots when you arrive at the buoy anyway.

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[misterg]

OK folks, thanks very much. I'll be trying it in earnest in a couple of weeks.

Andy

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[Guest]

Much preferred ....

having tender on mooring ..... made very easy to get back on again .... pick up tender painter tied off to buoy .....

Much easier than catching buoy line .....

As long as you approach slow and easy - why should there be lumps out of either tender or boat ?


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[FlyingSpud]

Hmm… But there is one problem with this.

You pick up the mooring line OK, but the tender is still tied to the buoy, up by the sharp end, where it is neither easy to get at and untie, or get into. Most people get on and off their boats now via the blunt end on their sugar scoop thingy.

Do you leave the tender on a painter as long as the boat? I’ve wondered about doing this, but somehow it looks a bit daft, the other answer seems to tie the painter to a loop on the mooring line, though given any sort of pull, this will pull the line into the wet stuff


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[rich]

Someone, tell me this post, "is not for real" do you go to sea aswell?

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