I keep a heavy line tied between the piling on the fareway and the piling on the dock, one on both port and stbd sides. In lew of a center piling you can use a couple of different types of knot to tie a spring line to the side lines. The bow man (or you) can grab the spring you left dangling on the side (guide) line and throw it over the stern cleat as you back in. It is already premarked or measured so that when it goes taught the boat stops short of the pier and will snug into the finger.
Little more difficult coming in forward but the guide lines still help a lot Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Aug 28, 2014 2:34 PM, "Paul Baker via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Which is all well and good if your dock has a piling or some other way of > getting a midships springline onto it. My dock is a low, short finger, > when the boat is in the slip the stern is just about to the end of the > finger so no way to drop a springline over a dock cleat as I come in > singlehanded. > I just have to wing it, drive in with enough way on to allow steerage, > quick blast of reverse to tuck the stern in and stop any forward > motion(dock is to port with reverse giving me a port walk), step off and > throw the docklines over my cleats like a hero. Usually. Gets more > interesting with the current and/or wind blowing you away from the dock of > course, haven't got that one nailed quite yet (first year with an inboard) > but fortunately don't have a boat in the adjoining slip so there is always > a plan B, however untidy it looks. > Cheers, > Paul > > Orange Crush > C&C27MkII > Sidney, BC. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe via CnC-List Della Barba" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:57:15 AM > Subject: Re: Stus-List Engine Sound Insulation - Go Without an engine? > > > > > > Key to difficult docking situations is a midships spring line. If you drop > a short spring on a piling you can run against it and snug up to the dock > under power either way and under sail going downwind. > > > > > Joe Della Barba > > Coquina > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go bottom of > page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > >
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