Joe,
Ditto. I swap ends also. Touche's normal dock lines use the eyes on the boat's
cleats. Touche's storm lines, however, are rigged with the eyes on the pilings
and are cleated on the boat with figure eights to allow for adjusting.
Crazy as it seems, there are people that cruise the bayou in dinghies adjusting
people's dock lines during the storm. Have to use dinghies because the marinas
will be flooded.
Boats that are moored on bulkheads side to put lines across the bayou to
trees. At the latest moment, one of the dinghy cruisers will tighten the lines
to pull the boat away from the bulkhead. This, of course, makes the bayou
impassable. But by that time, every boat should be tucked away.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
>________________________________
> From: "Della Barba, Joe" <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov>
>To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 7:11 AM
>Subject: Re: Stus-List Isaac..prepping for storm and surge
>
>
>During Isabel some idiots left lines tied to cleats bolted to the dock planks.
>Of course the surge pulled the planks right off the dock L
>I – having learned from Hurricane David the hard way – didn’t use my normal
>dock lines with spliced loops. For Isabel I was able to let the lines in and
>out without climbing off the boat and risking tripping or breaking an ankle on
>the pulled up planks mentioned earlier.
>
>Best of Luck – I’ll throw some rum in the bay to placate King Neptune.
>
>Joe Della Barba
>Coquina
>
>
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