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(SAIL LOCO) wrote:

In the boats that I know of with bowsprits (Gozzard for instance) when
they are docked at fixed docks with short finger piers, they normally
climb on and off via the bowsprit.

Only done by people who can't back their boat into a slip.
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So why should we have to back into a slip? People with dinghys on
davits or towed dinghys get into all kinds of trouble trying to get
the dinghy out of the way so they can back in. Backing in seems to be
mainly a power boat thing. And I see just as many of them - with bow
thrusters even - who have trouble backing into a slip.

grandma Rosalie