burgundyben
Well-Known Member
So there I was this afternoon dozing in the back of the cockpit at the Folly....
I was moored inshore of the pontoon, first thing I heard was a lady's voice say 'is there enough water?'
A Gala 990 (I think that what it said?), about 30 foot or a bit more, twin egg whisks and not sure if it had a thruster or not.
He proceeded to try and moor....
Pontoon was running north to south, he was trying to moor on the east side, tide was heading north and wind was SW about 15 to 18 knots.
He attempted to moor by approaching from the south, so was coming in down wind and down tide, and being blown off a bit.
They had 4 sausage fenders and one balloon fender on the bow, a stern line that the lady could not easily get to coiled at the back of the boat. A bow line fastened to the bow, lead aft to a midships cleat where it was made off, she was stood amidships with this line coiled, it was quite long enough.
He took one attempt and aborted, the wind blew him off and so he had another go.
He approached again from the south so was still down wind and down tide, the lady threw the line to me, I took a turn on the cleat and stopped the boat from colliding with the yacht moored ahead, his boat ended up at about 30 degree angle to the pontoon with the ballon fender fairly squashed and his anchor caught on the bow line of the yacht moored ahead. No one hurt, no damage, boat secure, but a bit of a mess.
He muttered to me that I had fastened the line far too tight and intimated that I had caused his parking to go wrong. I said nothing and went about my business.
What would you have done?
I was moored inshore of the pontoon, first thing I heard was a lady's voice say 'is there enough water?'
A Gala 990 (I think that what it said?), about 30 foot or a bit more, twin egg whisks and not sure if it had a thruster or not.
He proceeded to try and moor....
Pontoon was running north to south, he was trying to moor on the east side, tide was heading north and wind was SW about 15 to 18 knots.
He attempted to moor by approaching from the south, so was coming in down wind and down tide, and being blown off a bit.
They had 4 sausage fenders and one balloon fender on the bow, a stern line that the lady could not easily get to coiled at the back of the boat. A bow line fastened to the bow, lead aft to a midships cleat where it was made off, she was stood amidships with this line coiled, it was quite long enough.
He took one attempt and aborted, the wind blew him off and so he had another go.
He approached again from the south so was still down wind and down tide, the lady threw the line to me, I took a turn on the cleat and stopped the boat from colliding with the yacht moored ahead, his boat ended up at about 30 degree angle to the pontoon with the ballon fender fairly squashed and his anchor caught on the bow line of the yacht moored ahead. No one hurt, no damage, boat secure, but a bit of a mess.
He muttered to me that I had fastened the line far too tight and intimated that I had caused his parking to go wrong. I said nothing and went about my business.
What would you have done?
