Hi,

I have a houseboat on a lake. The waves come in from
the side and cause a lot of rocking around. When a boat
causes waves, it only causes so many and then they are
gone. Sometimes they're followed by waves from another
boat though most of the time that's not a big part of it, but
it sure seems that the boats keep on bouncing around in
the slips long after the waves have past. It doesn't look
like the water is still bouncing around too...just the boats.
So is most of the bouncing caused by the ropes, and the
boats bouncing around between and because of them?