Ø  ... there is another boat tied up to leeward on an adjoining finger...<

I use a set of "bail out" fenders on the leeward side.  If I pooch a 
single-handed landing and Calypso drifts towards the neighbor (+-4' separation) 
the "bail out" fenders allow Calypso to lay against the similar sized neighbor 
until I am able to sort things out.  The rest of my single-handed docking 
strategy is similar to the earlier finger pier comments.

Martin
Calypso
1971 C&C 43
Seattle
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of dwight
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 3:42 PM
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Subject: Re: Stus-List single handing

It all sounds good Chuck.
How do you like pulling into a finger when the wind is blowing 10-15 broadside 
off the finger, and then sometimes to complicate it all there is another boat 
tied up to leeward on an adjoining finger so you have very little room for 
error.   Docking under windy conditions is the real test; anyone can do it with 
a little practice and some good planning under calm conditions.  So I prefer 
calm conditions or docking into a straight headwind...I have a 3 blade autoprop 
that has good forward and reverse power but which sometimes hesitates to engage 
just when I need it most while docking and that requires a shot on the throttle 
to fix, but I have very little room to do a shot on the throttle...still no 
accidents so far but mostly I sail off a mooring, guess maybe that is a reason 
that I am getting very little practice nowadays.
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