Use a short spring from amidships. You can hold the boat on with forward or reverse as needed. I use this with great effect when parallel parking singlehanded. Joe Coquina
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Josh Muckley via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 4:42 PM To: C&C List Cc: Josh Muckley Subject: Re: Stus-List Boat Handling Skill Spring lines are awesome! First on and last off. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Oct 27, 2016 4:15 PM, "Jeremy Ralph via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: Had the pleasure of trying to single handedly dock in a strong wind this summer. Tried to dock bow in starboard side and the wind kept blowing the bow off. Oh, I'll back in I thought since the prop walk will pull me to port against the dock... The prop walk, wind, ferry wash and current made me do a full 360 before the rudder would bite in reverse. Amazingly I didn't hit anything. I've been afraid to single hand ever since. I'm looking into using a spring line and keeping the engine in gear to keep the bow from blowing off. Need to practice that technique. Any comments on spring line docking techniques? _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: https://www.paypal.me/stumurray All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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