Do you have a current were you dock?

When your docking your boat do you like a little current or not?

I loved one marina I lived in because it had a 3-7 knot current that
ran parellel to the dock. It was great having the current to work
against. Always made arrival and departure smooth as a feather.

Only bad point was marine life grew on the hull faster and we were
affected by wakes more often.

Here in the marina I'm at now we have still water and its 2 tight left
turns
into the slip. Windage is a bitch, and I have a left hand wheel and
dock bow in
port side to always throwing the stern away from the docking side
while backing, and I usually have to back some because of the speed
needed to make it in the slip without being blown down. If I stay here
much longer Im going to have to get a right hand wheel.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

Questions:

1) Why bow in if prop walk a problem.
2) Wouldn't a dock line which is easily picked up solve the
turning/windage problem?

Cheers

Joe wrote:

Do you have a current were you dock?

When your docking your boat do you like a little current or not?

I loved one marina I lived in because it had a 3-7 knot current that
ran parellel to the dock. It was great having the current to work
against. Always made arrival and departure smooth as a feather.

Only bad point was marine life grew on the hull faster and we were
affected by wakes more often.

Here in the marina I'm at now we have still water and its 2 tight left
turns
into the slip. Windage is a bitch, and I have a left hand wheel and
dock bow in
port side to always throwing the stern away from the docking side
while backing, and I usually have to back some because of the speed
needed to make it in the slip without being blown down. If I stay here
much longer Im going to have to get a right hand wheel.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

MC wrote in message ...
Questions:

1) Why bow in if prop walk a problem.

Because of the layout of the wheelhouse, its much easier to get on and
off the boat on the post side, and the dock on the stbd side is narrow
and covered with storage boxes. On the port side bow in, we have
almost 1500 square feet of dock space.

2) Wouldn't a dock line which is easily picked up solve the
turning/windage problem?

yeah, we do that now. I just like to lay in and step off without the
hassles. Turning and windage isnt much of a problem with enough way
on, just that quick stop always kicks the stern to stbd so someone has
to jump off and and toss a stern line.


Cheers

Joe wrote:

Do you have a current were you dock?

When your docking your boat do you like a little current or not?

I loved one marina I lived in because it had a 3-7 knot current that
ran parellel to the dock. It was great having the current to work
against. Always made arrival and departure smooth as a feather.

Only bad point was marine life grew on the hull faster and we were
affected by wakes more often.

Here in the marina I'm at now we have still water and its 2 tight left
turns
into the slip. Windage is a bitch, and I have a left hand wheel and
dock bow in
port side to always throwing the stern away from the docking side
while backing, and I usually have to back some because of the speed
needed to make it in the slip without being blown down. If I stay here
much longer Im going to have to get a right hand wheel.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

"Joe" wrote in message
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Do you have a current were you dock?

Yes.

When your docking your boat do you like a little current or not?

Prefer nothing, but it's manageable since the wind is a bigger factor.

I loved one marina I lived in because it had a 3-7 knot current that
ran parellel to the dock. It was great having the current to work
against. Always made arrival and departure smooth as a feather.

Only bad point was marine life grew on the hull faster and we were
affected by wakes more often.

Here in the marina I'm at now we have still water and its 2 tight left
turns
into the slip. Windage is a bitch, and I have a left hand wheel and
dock bow in
port side to always throwing the stern away from the docking side
while backing, and I usually have to back some because of the speed
needed to make it in the slip without being blown down. If I stay here
much longer Im going to have to get a right hand wheel.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

Joe,

I haven't read any of the replies yet, but I want to remind you, if you
have a single prop you have both a left and right handed helm. If your
stern walks left in reserve it will walk right in forward. Remember
there is also a third gear on your gear box (Neutral)

From neutral you can pop the stern in either direction, Just slip it
into gear, rev up quickly and back down and into neutral again

I learned and awful lot watching my female crew dock. Pussy footing in
and using stern walk is a pretty successful way to dock

Ole Thom

(Thom Stewart) wrote in message ...
Joe,

I haven't read any of the replies yet, but I want to remind you, if you
have a single prop you have both a left and right handed helm. If your
stern walks left in reserve it will walk right in forward. Remember
there is also a third gear on your gear box (Neutral)

I know Thom, but when you back hard your sorta crocked sideway in the
slip with the bow to port corner and stern to stbd corner. Thats ok
you just put her in netural and use your dock line to align the boat
or you can put a spring line out and drive the stern in, in forward as
you suggest.


From neutral you can pop the stern in either direction, Just slip it
into gear, rev up quickly and back down and into neutral again

I learned and awful lot watching my female crew dock. Pussy footing in
and using stern walk is a pretty successful way to dock

Yeah I love to dock stbd side 2 it's easy as pie due to wheel walk,
But to revup and pop er in forward gear to get my stern to move to
port can be done but I have to have a spring out and full right
rudder. I like the capt Ron type style docking.

Joe


Ole Thom

How about a big magnet tied to your dock?


"Joe" wrote
I know Thom, but when you back hard your sorta crocked sideway in the
slip with the bow to port corner and stern to stbd corner. Thats ok
you just put her in netural and use your dock line to align the boat
or you can put a spring line out and drive the stern in, in forward as
you suggest.

Scotty wrote...

How about a big Scotty magnet tied to your dick?


Ewwwwww!

RB

Joe asked: Do you have a current were you dock?

No, but there was a mulberry tree until everyone got sick of all the =
purple bird poo....



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"katysails" wrote in message ...
Joe asked: Do you have a current were you dock?

No, but there was a mulberry tree until everyone got sick of all the
purple bird poo....

Yeah we get purple poo here to. Little peckers like to sit in the
rigging
and bomb us. The trees are a few blocks away, but the have the best
view around on our rigging.

We mostly have mexican palm trees here. The wild parrots love em.

Joe