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(SAIL LOCO) wrote:

So why should we have to back into a slip?

Because you were talking about having to climb over bow pulpits to get off a
boat.

When I park a car, I usually go into the space head first. My husband
backs in. I'd rather back out into a big space than back into a small
space. He feels that he'd rather see out where he's going, and I feel
that the hood (bonnet) of the car keeps you almost as far back in the
space as going in forward does. (In actual fact I often find a place
in the lot with two spaces and pull all the way through.)

Then there was the bowsprit thing. Personally I'd like to keep a chainsaw
at my marina to take care of the dimwits who park their bowsprit equiped boats
with the bowsprit protruding half way over the pier.
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"No shirt, no skirt, full service"

We don't have a bowsprit, but neither do we ever allow the bow to
overhang the pier because we have an anchor with sharp edges on it and
we don't want people running into it and getting hurt. Also I think
there's too much chance of the bow coming down on the pier especially
if there are fixed docks and some tide.

The people with bowsprits and the people who climb off over the bow
are not me. I've just seen it done (and visited those people) so I
know it's possible. In Elizabeth City the concrete city docks (fixed)
are about on the level with our bow, and the finger piers are very
short and are much lower down. I have to have a step on the finger
pier or I can't reach from the deck of the boat to the dock. There's
an iron railing on the shore so one couldn't protrude over even if one
was big enough. I've never seen a sailboat back into those slips.

http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/tt/44933/#TL next to last picture and
http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/c96b6/ first two pictures.



grandma Rosalie
http://www12.virtualtourist.com/m/4a9c6/