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Originally Posted by charles
A couple of things:
The dock pic does not apply in this discussion, I SPECIFICALLY stated in my article and evertime I have given a presentation on this subject to boat groups that floating docks with bull rails do not lend themselves to using a loop.
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Charles, this thread isn't about you. It's about docking. The photo shows how a ship ties up to a dock. The ship uses loops at the end of the lines which are placed over bollards. That's roughly equivalent to boats placing the loop end of a line over a cleat on the dock.