[Rhodes22-list] Spring lines - reply to Wally

[Joseph Hadzima]

.o0( Richmond? is the Speed Diva going NASCAR )


--- elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Ed...where did you tie the aft spring line to?
> Also midship? 
> 
> Thanks for the reference; will check it out when I
> return from Richmond this PM.
> 
> elle
> 
> 
> --- Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Elle:
> > 
> > Spring lines work at a dock, I cannot comprehend why
> > they would not work as
> > Bob described.  My boat sat on the first row of
> > docks to prevailing winds
> > and storms, so I always over tied.  I used both fore
> > and aft spring lines. 
> > The fore spring line comes up over the side
> > amidships.
> > 
> > I also use 'Snubber' on fore dock line and garden
> > hose covering of lines
> > that rub ruff places so they do not chafe ware
> > break.  See west marine
> > catalog, 2007, page 241.  The dock lines
> > demonstrated in west are not
> > adequate for my location.
> > 
> > Ed K
> > Greenville, SC, USA
> > Addendum:
> > "When people thought the earth was flat, they were
> > wrong.  When people
> > thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong.
> > But if you think that
> > thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as
> > thinking the earth is
> > flat, then your view is wronger than both of them
> > put together."  Asimov's
> > axiom as quoted by Michael Shermer
> > 
> > -- 
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> >
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> 
> We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can
> adjust our sails.
> 
>  1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "Water Music"   (Lady in
> Red)
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