Tying up boats

iangrant

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Take a look around the marinas at how most boats are tied up, very scruffy indeed.

Generally the motor boats are the worst with their black ropes piled up on the pontoon, nice fashion accessory but you can't see them in the dark.

Seamanship Pah..it's all gone to pot

Ian

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Reminds me of an incident in my marina last year when there was total confusion as to what lines were "let go" on a departing yatch. He said the spring line, she let the spring lines go, He meant the proper spring line, she thought is was the lines with steel shock springs attached. This ended up with her shouting at him, and him shouting at her, with her muttering something and storming off. He did not sail that day. We looked on, and reflected in the benifit of having man management and communication skills........just got to put them into our own practice now.

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You beat me to it. Tying up is the scruffy thing to do. You either "moor up" or "secure alongside"

Well said.

Bob

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Why is it that the bloke stands at the helm and gets SWMBO to do all the running around casting off lines ?
I have a much easier life as SWMBO lets me do all the running,rope work,fending off etc while she looks cool and in charge at the wheel ! ( I do board and scaper for the helm before we plough into the berths astern, but don't tell her that !).
No seriously we find it works well.

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Manoevring boats

Maybe depends on the boat characteristics? I find myself being very envious of the Ben/Bav/Jan brigade when it comes to close-quarters manoevring. The designers of modern craft seem to know a thing or two about getting this right, helms seem mostly to drive them just like a car. In contrast, my Sadler is far more cantankerous, especially in any wind, and it seems to make more sense to put the more experienced person in charge of smiting the pontoon. Of course, there are boats far worse than the Sadler in this respect.

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Re: Manoevring boats

someone said to me about reversing long keelers

'the trick is to make everyone think you mean't to do that when the boat snakes back on a course of its own'

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