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Docking Situation #11
Here is a complicated docking situation that will require
a bit of thought. Your house and starter batteries are dead. As a result you are unable to start your engine. You have a 15' shore power cable, and this means you must not only sail into your slip, but also want to back into your slip so your charger can restore your batteries. The dock is a long dock with no finger-piers-only pilings on each side of every slip. None of the other boats stick out past the pilings. Your slip is just wide enough to fit your boat. The wind is moderately strong and onto the dock and in line with your slip--the worst possible direction. Your boat is a Catalina 30 and you have two (2) crew to help you. You have only one shot at getting it in right. After deciding to sail into the slip directly downwind under bare poles, all of a sudden a light goes on in your brain and you figure out a safe way to get the boat into the slip, stern in, without using an anchor. How did you do it? |
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Docking Situation #11
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oups.com... Here is a complicated docking situation that will require a bit of thought. Your house and starter batteries are dead. As a result you are unable to start your engine. You have a 15' shore power cable, and this means you must not only sail into your slip, but also want to back into your slip so your charger can restore your batteries. The dock is a long dock with no finger-piers-only pilings on each side of every slip. None of the other boats stick out past the pilings. Your slip is just wide enough to fit your boat. The wind is moderately strong and onto the dock and in line with your slip--the worst possible direction. Your boat is a Catalina 30 and you have two (2) crew to help you. You have only one shot at getting it in right. After deciding to sail into the slip directly downwind under bare poles, all of a sudden a light goes on in your brain and you figure out a safe way to get the boat into the slip, stern in, without using an anchor. How did you do it? Since none of the other boats stick out past the pilings, that means that the outer-most pilings may be used without excessive concern for hitting another boat. Approach perpendicular to your slip. Tie off to 2 pilings, one forward, one aft. This should secure you in a position perpendicular to your slip, with the wind tending to blow you away from the pilings. Feed slack through the rear cleat while mate #1 walks the bow line back to the stern and mate #2 readies to tie off the bow to the next piling and with a new bow line. By leap frogging the lines, you walk your boat to it's slip and slightly past it. As the stern passes your slip, secure a line on each of your own slip's outer-most pilings and tie off the farthest piling to a stern cleat while leaving the other line slack for now (i.e., if the pilings and your slip are on your starboard side, tie off to your starboard side stern cleat to the furthest piling of your own slip). Release the bow line, allowing the boat to pivot 90 degrees and align itself with the slip (if I understand the situation correctly, the wind is blowing your boat directly out of it's slip (if it was in the slip). You should be aligned, secured, and able to "walk" the boat into your own slip by working both stern lines and the pilings of your slip (i.e., a mate on each side grabs the pilings and walks you in using the gunnels. Makes sense in my head, but I don't know if I put it in words in a comprehendible way. Scout |
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Docking Situation #11
I'm not sure if I follow all that, but you nailed it. There is nothing
wrong with laying along onto the pilings. It would be easy enought to strike the sails and let the wind set you onto the piling adjacent to your slip and warp your way in. 1 point to you Scout. "Scout" wrote "Bart" wrote Here is a complicated docking situation that will require a bit of thought. Your house and starter batteries are dead. As a result you are unable to start your engine. You have a 15' shore power cable, and this means you must not only sail into your slip, but also want to back into your slip so your charger can restore your batteries. The dock is a long dock with no finger-piers-only pilings on each side of every slip. None of the other boats stick out past the pilings. Your slip is just wide enough to fit your boat. The wind is moderately strong and onto the dock and in line with your slip--the worst possible direction. Your boat is a Catalina 30 and you have two (2) crew to help you. You have only one shot at getting it in right. After deciding to sail into the slip directly downwind under bare poles, all of a sudden a light goes on in your brain and you figure out a safe way to get the boat into the slip, stern in, without using an anchor. How did you do it? Since none of the other boats stick out past the pilings, that means that the outer-most pilings may be used without excessive concern for hitting another boat. Approach perpendicular to your slip. Tie off to 2 pilings, one forward, one aft. This should secure you in a position perpendicular to your slip, with the wind tending to blow you away from the pilings. Feed slack through the rear cleat while mate #1 walks the bow line back to the stern and mate #2 readies to tie off the bow to the next piling and with a new bow line. By leap frogging the lines, you walk your boat to it's slip and slightly past it. As the stern passes your slip, secure a line on each of your own slip's outer-most pilings and tie off the farthest piling to a stern cleat while leaving the other line slack for now (i.e., if the pilings and your slip are on your starboard side, tie off to your starboard side stern cleat to the furthest piling of your own slip). Release the bow line, allowing the boat to pivot 90 degrees and align itself with the slip (if I understand the situation correctly, the wind is blowing your boat directly out of it's slip (if it was in the slip). You should be aligned, secured, and able to "walk" the boat into your own slip by working both stern lines and the pilings of your slip (i.e., a mate on each side grabs the pilings and walks you in using the gunnels. Makes sense in my head, but I don't know if I put it in words in a comprehendible way. Scout |
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