John, Your situation with 9 ft swells reminds me of a practice which I employ. It involves tying the bow lines high on the piles and the stern lines low or vice-versa. As the water falls the bows tighten and the sterns loosen. The reverse occurs when the water rises. This causes the boat to move fore and aft in the slip a bit but the need to leave the lines loose is minimized. The technique assumes that the bow and stern piles are a good distance fore and aft of the boat as apposed to directly to the side. Spring lines can still be a little complicated to set. I like a product called tide-minders. It's a string of hard balls that roll up and down the piles as the water rises and falls.
Hurricane check sat here in Solomons. We got stormy skies and 15 to 20 knot winds. The storm swell was probably 2 or 3 feet above normal high tide. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Mon, Sep 9, 2019, 11:40 AM John Conklin via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I got a pretty good Boat Bite from the Piling Port side Entry Gate !! > There was an old bolt about 5 ft up on Piling that got Halcyon ☹ I had > no issue with this in Florence. However at my Marina in Oriental NC wind > swung around outta the west Friday for a solid 4 hrs with Gusts to 70 MPH > pushing her onto the piling. I was not set up (Good enough) for that > direction. I was planning on a 9 ft surge so may have left a bit too much > slack? lesson learned ! Will add Fender Board for the next one for sure !! > > > > I believe it just cosmetic but No idea how to repair. Will hit it with > hose to be sure joint was not compromised. > > I don’t think this is an easy repair? Someone mentioned I may be able to > add material to rail then sand it back to original ? > > Real bummer for sure, and an ugly scar! Its not like I had rights got T > boned … or any good stories to tell either… > > Just a bad Job on my part securing her. > > Pics here à > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Fiuu9iTiGjT9gokV9MaOsE01Bgn4qb5V > > > > > > THANKS! > > > > John Conklin > > S/V Halcyon > > S/V Heart Beat > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> on behalf of Della > Barba, Joe via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > *Sent:* Monday, September 9, 2019 8:03:19 AM > *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > *Cc:* Della Barba, Joe <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov> > *Subject:* Stus-List hurricane check in > > > Everyone OK? > > Not much happened here, 25 knots maybe. > > Joe > > Coquina > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > >
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