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Old 01-20-2016, 02:03 PM   #61
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Over the past couple of decades I can't remember having to use a big old live tree for a stern line.

Just be careful of looping a stern line around that big old log up on the beach...

On the hook; Blind Bay; fulla booms; old Bodega hitched to a boom whilst mom and pop go off. Tuggie tug chugs in...you know the drill.

We saved Bodega's butt and when they came back, I don't think they even realized.

I think most stern ties are done when the place turns into a Walmart lot. You know how it's done; go hide out, no stern line required. No, this is not Blind Bay.
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. However to date most of the few times we've had to stern tie there have been metal rings to use; Butchart Cove, Princess Cove, etc.

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Who installs and maintains the metal rings? From what I've seen of some quiet coves, a couple of concrete anchors could hold a D ring easily, leaving it for the next boater, and leaving the trees along.

Of course, that might piss off the rock huggers

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Old 01-20-2016, 04:14 PM   #63
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Marin,

Who installs and maintains the metal rings? From what I've seen of some quiet coves, a couple of concrete anchors could hold a D ring easily, leaving it for the next boater, and leaving the trees along.

Of course, that might piss off the rock huggers

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I have no idea. Most of them seem to be in parks of some type or another, so I'm guessing the rings were put in by whoever administers the parks. Or perhaps the land around a cove is private and the landowner put them in. The ones we've used have been there long enough to be included in all the cruising guides we]ve used since 1998 so it's not a new thing.
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Does anybody use a lunch hook instead of the shore tie.
We use a stern anchor when there is room and the bottom is conducive to its use. But the places we've been where stern ties are the norm put the boats right up against a pretty steep, rocky shore and the water is usually quite deep right off that shore. If a stern anchor would even catch and hold on the bottom, the angle of the rode would be so steep that it wouldn't do much to hold the stern of the boat in place to eliminate most or all of the yawing, which is the whole point of the stern tie in the first place.

I just came across this shot from a few years ago of us moored up in Butchart Cove. Here one ties to a permanent mooring buoy (there are four of them in a line fairly close together) and runs a stern tie to a ring on shore. You can see how steeply the shore drops into the water and that gives an idea of the depth here. A stern anchor would be pretty useless in this situation.
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...I just came across this shot from a few years ago of us moored up in Butchart Cove. Here one ties to a permanent mooring buoy (there are four of them in a line fairly close together) and runs a stern tie to a ring on shore. You can see how steeply the shore drops into the water and that gives an idea of the depth here....
Is it obligatory to stern tie in that Cove, perhaps due to space constraints, as provision of the permanent onshore ring suggests ? We have plenty of similar buoys, but there is never a need to stern tie.
Stern ties here usually appear when all moorings are taken and skippers exercise ingenuity to shoehorn their boat in.
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Who installs and maintains the metal rings?
Don't know about other areas but around here they are mostly in Government Parks, either Federal or Provincial and the Parks Branch looks after them.

I say mostly because I'm sure we were not the only ones to carry around leftover Sakrete or Hydroplug and an assortment of ring bolts to make our own.

We were cheeky though and tossed a chunk of driftwood on them when we left.
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Is it obligatory to stern tie in that Cove, perhaps due to space constraints, as provision of the permanent onshore ring suggests ?
I don't know if it's obligatory but everyone we've talked to about the place says one should stern tie to avoid being swung into a neighboring boat or out into the narrow cove where a boat could obstruct the water taxis and floatplanes that bring visitors to the famous Butchart Gardens on the other side.
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Marin,

Who installs and maintains the metal rings? From what I've seen of some quiet coves, a couple of concrete anchors could hold a D ring easily, leaving it for the next boater, and leaving the trees along.

Of course, that might piss off the rock huggers

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BC Marine Parks Forever is now installing stern ties, here is a link http://www.marineparksforever.ca/BCM...rksPosters.pdf

A great organization......
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BC Marine Parks Forever is now installing stern ties, here is a link http://www.marineparksforever.ca/BCM...rksPosters.pdf

A great organization......
Thanks for correcting me.
Do they tend to the Federal Parks as well, do you know?
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Thanks for correcting me.
Do they tend to the Federal Parks as well, do you know?
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Don't know about Federal Parks as I don't remember seeing stern tie rings in any Federal Parks. The BC Marine Parks forever has been instrumental in securing many areas as Provincial Marine parks, see attached as to their achievements........
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Don't know about Federal Parks as I don't remember seeing stern tie rings in any Federal Parks. The BC Marine Parks forever has been instrumental in securing many areas as Provincial Marine parks, see attached as to their achievements........
Maybe Portland Island is the only one with rings.
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Marine Parks Forever, who have seeded many of our B.C. Marine parks purchases, are now involved in seeding proper, well installed shore side rings. They do not actually do the work but are, through effective scrounging and bulk purchases, seeding B.C. Parks with the supplies to install good quality rings and the lines needed to make solid, secure shore ties available. The Parks staff are installing the rings.
It's going to take a few years but over time you will see more and more places with these rings/ropes, either as replacements or additions.

Many of the old ones had questionable installations and are simply getting old enough that the safety is in question.

As explained to us at an impromptu dockside meeting and then another at a CPS meeting they explained that suitable park locations have become too expensive to do what used to be done, help purchase property . Now they are going to focus on improving the existing parks by seeding the Parks Dept. with supplies.

There will be other improvements done as time goes on. Some will be mooring buoys if I remember correctly.

As for Butchart Cove, I asked when we were there last fall about the mooring buoys. They are Butchart Gardens buoys placed closely enough that one must shore tie unless you want to swing into another boat. ALso of course to allow more boats. The reason was as given earlier. People plugging access for the float planes and larger commercial passenger vessel access to the park entrance float.
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BC Marine Parks Forever is now installing stern ties, here is a link http://www.marineparksforever.ca/BCM...rksPosters.pdf

A great organization......
I can't seem to locate the link to buy the guide in the flyer, can you provide a link?
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Marine Parks Forever, who have seeded many of our B.C. Marine parks purchases, are now involved in seeding proper, well installed shore side rings. They do not actually do the work but are, through effective scrounging and bulk purchases, seeding B.C. Parks with the supplies to install good quality rings and the lines needed to make solid, secure shore ties available. The Parks staff are installing the rings.
Thanks for the clarification, they are worthy of a donation.
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Those parks with rings are the ones that get the highest number of boats using the space. So far, I don't know of any in Desolation Sound Park, and wherever else we tie in the Desolation Sound area, there are none, so the old climb to the best tree or rock above high water is what is still necessary.

In some of the more crowded park anchorages, like Princess Cove, the stern tie rings are well used, and are spaced less than 100 feet apart along the rock wall, so anchoring and tying back is both simple and intuitive.
In Deep bay on Jedediah, the tie rings are a little too close together for my liking, so if the bay fills up at high tide, often happens that in the morning when everyone is just waking to the low tide, there is a goon time scramble, with people finding someone else's anchor across theirs as they try to leave. For this reason we rarely go there any more, but seek a quieter spot.
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Those parks with rings are the ones that get the highest number of boats using the space. So far, I don't know of any in Desolation Sound Park, and wherever else we tie in the Desolation Sound area, there are none, so the old climb to the best tree or rock above high water is what is still necessary.

In some of the more crowded park anchorages, like Princess Cove, the stern tie rings are well used, and are spaced less than 100 feet apart along the rock wall, so anchoring and tying back is both simple and intuitive.
In Deep bay on Jedediah, the tie rings are a little too close together for my liking, so if the bay fills up at high tide, often happens that in the morning when everyone is just waking to the low tide, there is a goon time scramble, with people finding someone else's anchor across theirs as they try to leave. For this reason we rarely go there any more, but seek a quieter spot.


You will find that as time goes on tie rings/lines will be installed in Melanie Cove, The main anchorage of Prideaux Haven where the rock wall are too steep to scale. I believe Deep Bay, Jedediah Isl. is on the list. Princess Cove on Wallace. It's simply ability to garner supplies and the Parks Staff's ability and time to install the rings that will determine which park gets done when..
This program is quite new to all so individual parks may be down the list a ways.

Personally, I won't return to Deep Bay for the reasons stated. Maybe in the truly off season I'll try again. We anchored there, it was not busy, yet our anchor was fouled by another boat. It wasn't a problem as it turned out. The other folk were decent and smart enough to realize they likely had done that and stuck around to help when we left the next day. But it could have much to easily been otherwise.
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I don't know if I am in favour of putting rings into places like Melanie and Prideaux. Those anchorages are already so crowded that I won't go there except by dinghy, and putting rock rings in will only exascerbate that situation.
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Personally, I won't return to Deep Bay for the reasons stated.
Don't know what size you are so maybe you can't answer.
Is Squitty Bay still too intimidating for most?
Haven't been in a long while.
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