[C320-list] Latest adventure with docking

[Barbara Uhlman]

Ditto.  We have two large ones.  (Don't laugh but they do save the boat on occasion.)

Barb

--- On Sat, 8/8/09, wflowe3 at netscape.net <wflowe3 at netscape.net> wrote:

> From: wflowe3 at netscape.net <wflowe3 at netscape.net>
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Latest adventure with docking
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10:15 AM
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>  This might help. I bought a pair of huge (18") dock corner
> wheels. Everyone laughed but now they want them too. In very
> windy conditions, I use the down wind wheel as a sort of
> target bumper. The hull bounces off the wheel and glides
> right into the slip sort of like a big pin-ball game.? Also
> protects when backing out.
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> Bill
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> From: Brad Kuether <bkuether at comcast.net>
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2009 11:08 pm
> Subject: [C320-list] Latest adventure with docking
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> Hello everyone,
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> I read and took to heart EVERY post on my docking
> issue.  I just wanted everyone 
> to know what happened on my second time out, and to thank
> them for replying.
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> I took the kids out with their cousins, as my wife is on
> vacation with her 
> sisters.  I was aprehensive about it.  Two weeks
> ago was a fiasco.
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> I put the snubber back on, and told myself I could figure
> this out.  We got back 
> and I did three dry runs in the creek.
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> THE BOAT CAN TURN TO PORT GOING BACKWARDS!  
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> After the practice I dropped it into the slip, on the first
> try.  No panic, no 
> fending, nothing.
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> I got the boat speed up in reverse, put the
> transmission  in neutral, and was 
> able to turn.  I think the prop was working against me
> and having it not turning 
> while I was turning the boat made the difference.
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> We had a great two hours just outside Middle River and the
> kids think I am "so 
> cool" for taking them out.  I am so cool either
> way..... Now that I can dock my 
> boat.
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> -Brad, Mary, Monica, and Jarod
> "Independence"
> 2004 Catalina 320 Hull 1006
> Middle River, MD   
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