On 31 Mar 2008, at 09:20, David Sullivan wrote: > We like tying to piling, too. However, our piling hooks are > decidedly benter now than when we bought them due to boats > zooming past (and we always tie up very very tight).
We bought our first piling hooks last year - there is not much armco on the K&A where we our boat lives. The very first time we used them some youths in a large cruiser zoomed past in the gloaming and bent one of the hooks and the piling. Kids, eh? Still, I'd finished my soup by then. > > Best of all is tying to rings, but they do seem for > some reason to cause people to tie their boats up > with a 20ft gap between them, which I find > incredibly annoying when I can't tie up because > people haven't "parked pretty". I think BW have a standard pitch of 20' for installing rings. As nb Lark Rise is 40' long, 'parking pretty' can often lead to awkwardness such as trip hazards for neighbouring boaters or unsatisfactory 90 degree rope angles or, where ground conditions permit, driving spikes into the bank between rings. None of this, I could add, has ever caused a problem for us. Baz
