[C320-list] Backing into slip

[Joe Barrett]

I too used to do that for enjoyment when I lived in Winthrop Mass. I kept my
dinghy right next to the two launch ramps and Sunday at 5pm after a sail was
a great time to hang around there. Husbands on the boat while the wife tries
to back the trailer with the husbands screaming obscenities at the top of
their lungs while the wife's did the same.
Great Entertainment!
Joe Barrett

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     with a fast current in the river jeff an I dock in     plus the effect
of the tide flowing in or out     the sunday comedy show is at the local
town ramp at 5 PM  to watch the circus     it's a constant comedy of errors
watching them trying to get their boats back on their trailers     also a
learning experince for those watching

    Al Ahlman
      #476

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From: "Warren Updike" <wupdike at hotmail.com> 

> No one seems to have mentioned this yet; but, here is a strategy that 
> has saved my buns more than once. When the wind or current make a bow 
> or stern approach problematic, I bring the boat alongside the pilings 
> at the entrance to the slip
> - hull perpendicular to the slip. Best done heading into the wind. 
> Then, using one of the dock lines from the pile as a spring to a stern 
> cleat, back the engine and you will rotate the stern into the slip. 
> Best done heading into the wind. Once the bow is at a reasonable angle 
> to the wind, let go the line and continue into the dock. Once the beam is
inside the pilings, you have it made.
> 
> Another trick with a safety line from the dock to the entrance piling 
> is to have ready a piece of line with a loop on one end and a hook on the
other.
> Immediately after entering the slip, on the windward side, hook the 
> line to the safety line and drop the loop over a cleat. Now you can 
> forget about that side and concentrate on the rest of the process.
> 
> With our first sailboat, I was nervous about looking like a lubber in 
> our new marina. That is, until I watched the circus around some of the
"old salts"
> making their landing. I found that no one criticizes a botched 
> docking, and everyone applauds a good one.
> 
> Warren & Pattie Updike
> C320, #62, 1994, "Warr De Mar" 
> Frog Mortar Creek, Middle River
> Chesapeake Bay