BruceK
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Anyone point me to an article online dealing with using spring lines when docking? I have looked, without much success.
Here is a docking tutorial.Anyone point me to an article online dealing with using spring lines when docking? I have looked, without much success.
Thrusters do come in handy!Or you could just do it like this...
One day, just go down to the boat, stand at the helm, look out in all directions, find fixed objects that will always be there; a certain piling, mast, beacon, corner of a structure; stuff like that. Note where they are in relation to a window frame, a rail stanchion or whatever you can line them up with. Use them like range markers for when you back in.When backing from inside the PH (I have no flybridge) I can see my port quarter pretty well but not my starboard quarter, so when I back straight in I have a hard time seeing where I am on my starboard side and I worry about hitting the dock. Sometimes when solo I have to leave the PH to get a look at the starboard quarter...
Bruce, the 67th ed. is just an updated version of all the others. Probably added something new in there just for you.BruceK said:Are they the same, didn`t look like it, which to buy?
The rounded bow, and curve of the flare of the bow is really bad to use as a 'spring tool'.