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More on berthing-single screw and twins
"P.S. If you twist my arm, I'll tell you how I'm working on getting out of
my slip in a heavy wind, single-handed - a variation on the Karen method." I don't know the Karen method, Charles, but it helps to know, in this case, which way the wind is blowing or coming from ;-) BTW I'm also twisting your non steering arm g Just in case you need it. -- c ya Wim www.cruising.ca/thousand/f-index.html "Charles T. Low" wrote in message ... : Jack, : : Excellent information, thank you. A few things: : : -you will probably need a well-fendered bow for these maneuvers. Docking and : especially undocking as you describe can entail sitting at quite an angle to : the dock, pushing into that dock with the curve of the bow rather the "flat" : of the topsides; : : -I find in my past planing and semi-planing hulls that if you're talking : about winds in the 15 kt plus range, that even the techniques you describe : can get pretty hairy. By the time I get close enough to attach my lines, and : then put the throttle to idle and the tranmission in neutral, go and attach : the line, and return to the helm (just a few steps), all hell can have : broken loose. There are clever ways around this (viz. a fascinating thread : with Karen from Australia last year), but it's a bit of an advanced : procedure, and I hesitate to recommend it to beginners, for fear of being : complicit in causing them some grief. What are your limits for being able to : do this? : : -for the undocking sequence you favour, I have a question about uncleating : the line: you say to push the stern away from the dock with power, forward : gear, rudder turned towards the dock, and I can see the boat yawing, the : after amidships spring holding the bow in to the dock and the stern swinging : out - then how do you get at the cleat, on the dock, now out of arm's length : from the stern, to uncleat it? : : -some of the docks I frequent use rings rather than cleats, and I haven't : decided on the best way to attach quickly (and temporarily) to a ring in : heavy weather, for the "power spring" techniques you're extolling, although : I always figure something out, but it's a bit of an impromptu affair every : time, with many variables coming into play. An old trick that I don't use : very much any more but is handy to have in my armamentarium, is a line : attached to the boat at both ends - a bight of this could be passed through : a ring, quickly secured by a knot (or back over a transom cleat), and made : to function as a variation of the after amidships spring you describe. : : Any of that gel with you? : : Charles : : P.S. This and various other techniques have allowed me to go boating on : windy days when lots of other boaters stand at their bow rail, gazing : wistfully out at the open water. : : P.S. If you twist my arm, I'll tell you how I'm working on getting out of my : slip in a heavy wind, single-handed - a variation on the Karen method. : : ==== : : Charles T. Low : - remove "UN" : www.boatdocking.com : www.ctlow.ca/Trojan26 - my boat : : ==== : : "Jack Dale" wrote in message : ... : Try using a single line docking system. : -Find a point about one quarter of the distance from the stern to the : bow. (You may have to experiment a bit) : -Attach a line to this point. : -Tie this line to the dock, opposite your transom. : -Put the engine in forward. : -With the rubber centered, the boat should pull itself into the dock. : -Adjusting the rudder will move the bow into or away from the dock. : : When you need to dock single-handed (or with incompetent crew) : -Attach bow and stern breast lines. : -Attach the single as above. : -After you dock, put the boat in neutral. : -Tie the single line opposite the transom. : -Engage forward gear - no throttle. : -Adjust rudder until boat sits in desired position. : -Attach breast lines and stern lines. : -Disengage transmission. : : Voila - this works bow or stern to. : : When leaving dock (stern to) use the single line. : -Run it around the dock or cleat back to aft mooring cleat. : -Engage forward. : -Adjust rudder for angle to leave dock. : -Uncleat line. : -Leave the dock. : : I have used it bow-to and stern-to single-handed in tight conditions. : : I like it (if you cannot tell). : : Jack : : |
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