"Don White" wrote:

"Rosalie B." wrote in message
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Floating docks are similarly a problem for me because they are at the
waterline, and we have a fairly high freeboard. So we carry a step
stool.

grandma Rosalie


Our skipper had a Rubbermaid 2 step type stool nailed to his slip.
We had to be careful hopping off the Mirage 33 if the helmsman came into the
slip a bit fast. There's not a lot of surface area to land on. ;-)

One of our passengers tried to leap from our boat to the one we were
getting ready to raft on, and fell. He had really badly bruised ribs
(he didn't fall in). He didn't say anything to us at the time, but
his SO told me about it later.

We NEVER jump off in docking. Sometimes it may take two tries, but
Bob has to get the boat close enough to the dock that I can get the
lines on a piling or to a person on the dock. He can get off after
we are attached (although we both have arthritis in our knees - my
sisters orthopedist says that everyone our age has creaky knees - but
his is apparently less advanced than mine).

Or in the case of our home dock, we leave the lines on the pilings on
the pier (fixed dock) and all I have to do is lift them off with a
boat hook and put the lines through the appropriate chocks or hawse
holes. There are chafe guards attached to the lines where they go
through, so I even know how long to leave the lines.

We also do have a wooden step stool that Bob built that is attached to
the pier. He built it after I ripped my thigh open on a nail that
time.