Hi John, We live aboard a modest C&C 35-II, a 1974 boat, in Seattle, with wind mostly from the North and South. I hate to be bounced off the dock, and squeaking fenders will make me get up in the night, and go spray them with the kitchen soapy sprayer. It’s best to spring the boat off the dock with lines from the toe rail. I have simply tied about a foot and a half of line or webbing, and tucked the blight through the toe rail. The stern spring location is just aft of the gate, and I use a 3/8 line with a snubber and scrap of hose for chafe. It’s actually my stopping line, repurposed to spring the boat. I throw a bowline around the cleat, run it to the toe-rail blight, push the hose back in place, (yea I haven’t bothered to tie it there as things change) take the line back to the dock cleat, easy. The forward spring has an old scrap of fire hose for chafe and a snubber too, and goes through the blight about half way to the shrouds. You will play with the spring positions and lines a few times, till you can get the boat off the dock and parallel to the dock. Too far forward and I will be pulling the bow away from the dock, too far aft and I’ll hit my dinghy. Hope this makes sense.
When you have it located and tensioned, all sorted out, you can be comfortable in 30+ knots. Then you just have to check the lines on the boats up wind. Those rattly little knotted blights have held up for over 8 years, someday I will do something prettier, a soft shackel, or not. . . Don’t over think it, and yes carabiners will eat your toerail, not just the black coating, they will chew up the AL rail too. Look at the stern spinnaker block locations of boats that have been heavily raced. SS will eat AL. Good luck, Lee Simplicity in Seattle > On Jun 18, 2018, at 8:26 34PM, John Conklin via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > On My 1982 37 I have only bow and stern cleats. There is no place except > the Toe rail to tie My fore and aft spring lines. And I need them on my > docking situation. > Question - Is this fine to do tie off direct to toe rail with clip of > Carabiner ? and what are the methods of attachment? How about Cafe? > Do the Toe Rail cleats ( foldable) they sell work ? or what about the or > the cleat for the genoa track ? is this worth the price? Any other thoughts > ideas are welcome > THANKS ! > > John Conklin > s/v Halcyon > Oriental NC > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each and > every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > <https://www.paypal.me/stumurray>
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