Why would you do this to your boat?

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All the adjustment on the lines must be at the shore end. So you couldn't cast off from the boat without leaving the lines behind.
 
my mate varnished his old Princess teak about 10 years ago, it is practical and looks really good.

I think the teak lovers on this forum either have new boats (new teak) and or have help or a lot of spare time on their hands (and knees) cleaning the teak .

Old teak and new teak that is not cared for looks awful.

This leaves many owners with two choices either change it for tekdek or the cheaper quicker option is to varnish it, both these options reduce the scrubbing and allow more time on the water.
 
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MapisM said:
But I'm not surprised to see that, considering the mooring lines arrangement.
What would you expect by someone who ties the dock to the boat rather than do the opposite?
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A lot of people have a set of fixed lines made up on the pontoon. Then when they come in they simply hook on and everything is the right length. Same with leaving, simply slip the lines, drop them on the pontoon and go.

Obviously they have a set of warps on board to tying up at their destination, or for using if the wind is blowing off the pontoon and they need to step ashore with lines (in which case they just substitute the pontoon lines afterwards).

Having said that, where many go wrong is to have both ends neatly spliced, one end to the pontoon cleats, the other sized to slip onto the boat cleats. All well and good until the lines stretch and there's no way of tightening them...

The other thing people do is attach fenders direct to the pontoon too. This makes for very little preparation so if it's a husband and wife team and she's not particularly into it all, then all she needs to do is step off onto the pontoon, hang the aft spring onto the centre cleat, hubby puts the helm down toward the pontoon and applies tickover ahead and the boat holds position whilst the rest of the lines are hooked on. Easy peasy.

Same in reverse for leaving. Boat in tickover ahead, helm down. Fore and aft lines slipped, then into reverse, slip the spring and gone. No lines to coil, no fenders to remove, job done.

It's very common practice, in the last marina I was in probably 30% of boats were secured this way.

As to the varnished teak however, not for me. Must get exciting when it's wet surely?
 
As I understand it teak has natural oils that will ultimately cause varnish to flake off so not a good thing to do on teak decks...?? I know the teak rail on our last boat wouldn't stay varnished for too long so I ended up using oil. Purists say that salt water scrub is all that teak decks should need.
 
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