"Horvath" wrote in message

| When you're standing on the bow, and you are four feet off the water,
| and you hook the mooring ball,
|
| How the **** do you tie a line to it?

Okay... I thought you were pulling our collective leg here.... it's obvious
why you prefer a slip at the dock. Once you hook the ball you pull it up to
the deck and tie on with a mooring painter to each cleat at the bow. If you
have a regular mooring you fit it with two 15 ft floating mooring painters
about 3/4" dia. It's much easier to "hook" the painters and secure than
yanking the ball up to the boat each time.


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| It's much easier to have someone stand on the swim platform, and back
| up to the ball to moor stern first dumbass.

Yes Horvath... I've seen people moor stern to... it's cute and sets your
place in the pecking order of sailors.

CM