On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:21:11 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

Harry remarked about making sure your dock lines are crossed in my
prev post about "tideminders" and this struck me and I thought about
it a bit. Without "Tideminders", I would agree because this allows
more stretch of the lines but with Tideminders, you do not want
stretch.
Yes, Crossed lines look more professional but in this case I think
they defeat the purpose fo the Tideminders.

Not really. Crossed lines improve the geometry in either case
because they lengthen the lines which allows for more vertical rise
and fall for any given line tension (the spring line concept). This
effect is more pronounced on powerboats with wide transoms but it
still applies to sailboats also.