What is your knot preference for making a dock line off to a piling?

What should be a concern when so moored.

All my docklines have eyesplices in them, I loop through the
eye.

Tidal range.

Scotty

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What is your knot preference for making a dock line off to
a piling?

What should be a concern when so moored.

Well, I'd imagine you'd want something that will tighten, so perhaps a round
turn and 2 1/2 hitches. The issue would be easing it.

An interesting knot I've been trying to use is a bowline with a slip knot in
the final part of the knot. Very secure, and all you have to do is give it a
tug to ease.

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What is your knot preference for making a dock line off to a piling?

What should be a concern when so moored.

doubleecho wrote
What is your knot preference for making a dock line off to
a piling?


Scotty wrote:
All my docklines have eyesplices in them, I loop through the
eye.

Same here. The self-tightening loop keeps the line from
dropping along the piling or chafing.


What should be a concern when so moored.



Tidal range.


Agreed again. I didn't think you all had much tide up there.
We have very little real tide, the wind on the estuary puts
the water level up or down as much as four feet some times.

How do you tell if the line is going to allow more or less
movement as the water level goes up or down?

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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Well, I'd imagine you'd want something that will tighten,
so perhaps a round
turn and 2 1/2 hitches. The issue would be easing it.


Not a good knot, unless you do something with the tail to
prevent loosening.

Scotty

"DSK" wrote in message
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doubleecho wrote
What is your knot preference for making a dock line off
to
a piling?


Scotty wrote:
All my docklines have eyesplices in them, I loop through
the
eye.

Same here. The self-tightening loop keeps the line from
dropping along the piling or chafing.


What should be a concern when so moored.



Tidal range.


Agreed again. I didn't think you all had much tide up
there.
We have very little real tide, the wind on the estuary
puts
the water level up or down as much as four feet some
times.

How do you tell if the line is going to allow more or less
movement as the water level goes up or down?

It's relationship to the deck height.

We have about the same up here, the main thing is, in a
narrow slip, leaving the boat for a week at a time, you're
bound to encounter a super low or high tide and should
account for it. I tie the lines on the pilings so they're
dead even with the boat with as much slack as possible, at
'normal' tide height. So many boats I see have the dock
lines way high up on the pilings.

SBV

DSK wrote:
doubleecho wrote
What is your knot preference for making a dock line off to
a piling?


Scotty wrote:
All my docklines have eyesplices in them, I loop through the
eye.

Same here. The self-tightening loop keeps the line from dropping along
the piling or chafing.

Yes, it has the added advantage that you can loosen it and move it
with a boat hook.




What should be a concern when so moored.



Tidal range.


Agreed again. I didn't think you all had much tide up there. We have
very little real tide, the wind on the estuary puts the water level up
or down as much as four feet some times.

Jeeze, you call that a tide? (OK, you said it wasn't a real tide.)

Of course, while East of Cape Cod we have 9 feet or more of tide, its
very rare that a recreational facility doesn't have floating docks.


How do you tell if the line is going to allow more or less movement as
the water level goes up or down?

trigonometry


Fresh Breezes- Doug King

In one situation, we used the RT w/2 hitches. We made sure the knot was
secure after the fact by easing out one dockline and hauling in on the other
until we were near the piling, put the tail through the original turn (like
an anchor hitch) then doing the same thing for the other side. When we
wanted to leave, we reversed the procedure, except that we unwrapped the 2
hitches and most of the RT. As soon as the bow section was clear of the
pilings, we let the rest go.

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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Well, I'd imagine you'd want something that will tighten,
so perhaps a round
turn and 2 1/2 hitches. The issue would be easing it.


Not a good knot, unless you do something with the tail to
prevent loosening.

Scotty

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Rolling hitch.

Cheers,
Ellen

Bzzzt. Wrong answer.

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"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
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Rolling hitch.

Cheers,
Ellen