[Rhodes22-list] All tied up

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Joe,
As with most boating questions the answer is "it 
depends".  What type of docks (fixed or 
floating)? what are the attachment points 
(cleats? pilings? a mixture? Where are the 
attachment points. How big is the slip? Do you 
share it with a neighbor? etc. etc. 3/8 lines are 
big enough for most applications.

I see you said floating docks so that makes 
things easier. You don't have tides but if your 
lake level varies, the docks will rise and fall 
with the water level and your lines can stay put. 
As for the arrangement it pays to walk around the 
marina and see how other boats are tied up. 
Generally, you want to keep the boat centered in 
the slip away from anything that could rub or 
bump against the boat and damage it. If you need 
fenders to help protect the boat check out the 
ones from Taylor that they sell as "low freeboard 
fenders" 
(http://www.boatcovers.cc/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?item_id=9) 
You would want the ones that are 7" in diameter 
and 23" long. They work wonderfully on the curved hull of the Rhodes 22.

We've tied up in lots of different kinds of 
slips. We are almost always bow in with a line 
from each side of the slip (usually cleats on the 
dock) to the single cleat on the bow (some R22s 
have twin cleats - a useful thing - we replaced 
out single cleat with a larger one). We also use 
a line from each side of the slip (usually from 
pilings) to each of the stern cleats. We adjust 
them until the boat is centered and so that we 
can pull the boat over to the finger pier just by 
loosening one line. We rarely use a spring line 
but they are useful in some instances.

There is a very handy little book in the "Cornell 
Boaters Library Series" called "Dockmanship" by 
David Owen Bell. It talks about the proper way to 
tie up to cleats and pilings and various ways to 
handle a boat into and out of slips in various configurations.

Best,
Mary Lou


At 07:18 PM 6/8/2010, you wrote:
>Friends: Â Â  Â  I will not have my boat until 
>the end of July, but no sense in letting this 
>question go: Â I have never tied up at a slip 
>before. Â Mine will be on a lake, in a protected 
>marina and is a floating dock. Â Please give me 
>some advice on the best way to accomplish this 
>seemingly mundane task.  Poem follows. Joe  
>    Me                     
>Â Â Â  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
>               JJ Camp “I wish 
>that Michael wasn’t dead,” she said to me on 
>a day after he was gone. “Something’s wrong! 
>I love— I loved him Dad, but I can’t cry. So 
>tell me why I even said I was his friend, if I 
>can’t cry.”   “And would you cry— Dad— 
>you kn know— if it was me instead of Mike?”  
>Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂÂ Â Â  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Â Â Â 
>Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  1993 
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