Another good point you mentioned earlier was warping. Not rocket
science, in fact to me it seems quite obvious... although some
precautions are in order. And people get awfully funny about
stringing
lines across fairways inside the marina.

Joe wrote:
Anyone who needs to warp or spring under good weather condition leaving
the average slip just need more practice IMO. Next you will be
suggesting bow thrusters!


Nothing wrong with having a bow thruster, as long as you don't use it as
a crutch or an excuse to not learn boat handling.

Nothing wrong with using springs or warps either, if the conditions
warrant it. For example, there could be just barely enough wind blowing
onto the dock that if you use a spring to put the boat into the wind, it
looks like a piece of cake, but if you try to just bull it away from the
pier, you're flirting with swapping gelcoat. The trick is to know when
and do it so that it looks easy. So what if the dockside onlookers all
scoff and say 'he shouldn't have done that, look how easy it was.'

DSK