From my position moored to rings or armco I often watch in fascination as a
hire boat arrives and ties up to two barely tapped in pins. Then they all
wander off and boat after boat goes by and the boat stays moored to the pins
which stay in the ground!
If I tried it I would be across the cut in 5 minutes but they get away with
it. I wonder if some people have a guardian angel dancing on the head of their
mooring pins.
jhar1945 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
And another thing many people forget is that hire boats don't always
come with multiple mooring pins - more often than not you have to
make do with two.
John
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