Roger Millin wrote: > .........what is your attitude if you've done all > that and your boat is still thrown about by a passing boat? You can > only moor as well as you can in the circumstances. When you've driven > your 2 ft spikes at the correct angle right in up to the neck, set > the ropes as low as possible on the spike/ground level, set a spring > (in my case a ratchet strap that can be tightened to take up slack) > and you still get thrown about and the spikes pulled out. I'm not > convinced that, under those circumstances, the moorer can be blamed > for poor technique unless Adrian is going to suggest that we cruise > on and on and on, stopping every so often to try the ground for > hardness with a spike, only to find it's still too soft before > cruising on to repeat the exercise ad infinitum. > Roger > > > Of course there are exceptions some people just don't know how to drive a boat, just as they don't know how to moor it, but these are as often as not boat owners and not hirers. As Mike says most hireboaters are, in my experience, keen to learn if approached in a rational manner. In my experience many boat owners aren't. Yes I have had pins pulled out but, in nearly all cases, I have known that the mooring was far from ideal and was prepared to take the risk as it was handy for the facilities I wanted.
One thing many people forget, and I include myself in this, is that the profile of the cut makes a big difference to the performance of both the moored and moving boat. Moving the mooring a few yards (metres) can make a real difference to your comfort. Paul
