Tying Tender to Mooring

[Little Dorrit]

I have two mooring warps each connected with a nylon line with a buoy attached for easy retrieval of the warps on my return... easy until I introduce the tender which always seems to hinder the retrieval of the warps...any brilliant ideas to help.

 

[fireball]

I tie the tender up tight to the buoy then lay the strops in the tender. Of course, this only works if you can get out of your tender at the bow. I have a rope step

 

[Little Dorrit]

I tie the tender up tight to the buoy then lay the strops in the tender. Of course, this only works if you can get out of your tender at the bow. I have a rope step

Not possible for me and Langstone can be quite choppy, but its giving me a few ideas so thanks.

 

[Tranona]

Tie on with a longish warp and have a pick up buoy also on a long warp in the dinghy. Nudge up alongside the dinghy and hook the pick up buoy out with your boat hook.

 

[Lakesailor]

Similar but tie the tender to the pick-up buoy and sometimes just hook the painter and pull it up with the boathook which puts the pick-up in your hand.

 

[VicS]

Similar but tie the tender to the pick-up buoy and sometimes just hook the painter and pull it up with the boathook which puts the pick-up in your hand.

+1

leave enough painter between the buoy and the dinghy to be able to do that but not so much that the dinghy sailors will try to pass between them.

 

[Zagato]

Similar but tie the tender to the pick-up buoy and sometimes just hook the painter and pull it up with the boathook which puts the pick-up in your hand.

+2

 

[johnphilip]

Tie on with a longish warp and have a pick up buoy also on a long warp in the dinghy. Nudge up alongside the dinghy and hook the pick up buoy out with your boat hook.

Not too long please, in crowded anchorages a dinghy blowing across rhe tide on a long and sometimes hidden painter from a mooring buoy is at best selfish and at worst an accident trying to happen.

 

[Daydream believer]

+1

leave enough painter between the buoy and the dinghy to be able to do that but not so much that the dinghy sailors will try to pass between them.

I judge the length by how much i need to sail between buoy & dinghy so it gets fully wrapped around the keel
Gives the bar pundits something to look at when on the sailing club balcony
Of course an expert can get it dead right & get rope between keel & rudder
Long keelers have nothing on fin & skeg at that bit of seamanship!!!
Some prefer to do it casting off with full sail on wind with tide conditions

 

[chewi]

I tie the tender up tight to the buoy then lay the strops in the tender. Of course, this only works if you can get out of your tender at the bow. I have a rope step

I approach and exit the dinghy at the stern ,unload, then pull it fwd from the deck, tie it short to the mooring line, & drop the pickup into the tender for pickup with boathook

So I don;t have to get out of the tender at the bow, the line is short, and it gives me a decent length of pickup to work with.

 

[Lakesailor]

Not too long please, in crowded anchorages a dinghy blowing across rhe tide on a long and sometimes hidden painter from a mooring buoy is at best selfish and at worst an accident trying to happen.

I have a painter which allows the dinghy to fall back to the boarding point on the boat (cockpit coaming) when attached to the pick-up whilst still on the foredeck. So when I cast off the tender lays no further from the mooring than the boat did. As the boat is sub 20ft, that is not a long painter.
Anyone who tried to pass between a pick-up buoy and a tender would be chancing their arm a bit.

 

[Little Dorrit]

...
Of course an expert can get it dead right & get rope between keel & rudder...

This was my point!

 

[BAtoo]

I approach and exit the dinghy at the stern ,unload, then pull it fwd from the deck, tie it short to the mooring line, & drop the pickup into the tender for pickup with boathook

So I don;t have to get out of the tender at the bow, the line is short, and it gives me a decent length of pickup to work with.

+1

 

[bert49uk]

Depends how big your pickup buoy is, mine is quite small and its usually stored on deck. so i tie my dingy to the buoy and then throw it in the dingy

 

[Little Dorrit]

Thank for all the advice. I am happy to report that throwing the painter tied to the floating pick-up buoy into the tender looks as if its going to be the perfect solution. Thank-you.

 

[William_H]

I have a painter which allows the dinghy to fall back to the boarding point on the boat (cockpit coaming) when attached to the pick-up whilst still on the foredeck. So when I cast off the tender lays no further from the mooring than the boat did. As the boat is sub 20ft, that is not a long painter.
Anyone who tried to pass between a pick-up buoy and a tender would be chancing their arm a bit.

I do exactly as Lakey does. Yes the dinghy is some distance from the buoy. That makes a good easy target to hook with the boat hook. I always sail back onto the mooring. No it is a fairly tight mooring area so not a place dinghy sailors go. (Ihope) olewill

 

[TrailerSailer]

Tie the painter to the pick up buoy. My mooring is a chain with the pick up buoy on a rope. Always worked OK until today when for some reason the tender's painter had taken a turn around the riser chain. As it was only a single turn it was relatively easy to fix but if it had kept on winding round then we would have had difficulty.

 

[chewi]

So there is no stress free line to pick up?
if you tie the painter close up to the mooring line ( not the pickup) the dinghy lies close to the mooring and the pickup line lies loose in the tender. easy to pick up.

 

[Daydream believer]

Tie the painter to the pick up buoy. My mooring is a chain with the pick up buoy on a rope. Always worked OK until today when for some reason the tender's painter had taken a turn around the riser chain. As it was only a single turn it was relatively easy to fix but if it had kept on winding round then we would have had difficulty.

To reduce tangles you could have a floating polypropylene rope as the initial pickup.this will not drop down like a chain.
That allows you to hook on easily then sort the chain out later
You probably had a twist in the mooring riser & when you cast off the buoy spun round. This sometimes happens even with a swivel in the riser or on top of the buoy.
All the theories about laying ropes in tenders do not work when one is towing the dinghy
When single handed i tie a rope to the bow, lead it aft outside all shrouds & guardrails, back to the cockpit.
On the end is a large hook.
I sail up to the buoy hook on from the cockpit. Sort the sails then sort the mooring lines

 

[DipperToo]

So there is no stress free line to pick up?
if you tie the painter close up to the mooring line ( not the pickup) the dinghy lies close to the mooring and the pickup line lies loose in the tender. easy to pick up.

I put a couple of short bamboo canes in the holes for the rowlocks and then put the two strops from the mooring buoy each side of the tender and over the canes. Never had a problem single handed picking up or departing.