> Yes, but only if you have at least two long ropes, which hire craft > cannot be depended to be equipped with. > Memories of a hireboat I collected once with a less than 6' sternrope - on the second day I found the rest of it and no prizes for guessing where. As that boatyard evidently doesn't even check the weedhatch on turnround I've never been back! John
My son and a group of friends hired from Clifton at Rugby and managed to destroy a rope somehow. He went into a chandlers and got a new one - Clifton were so surprised that they offered him a discount and an upgrade if he hired from then again!! I do two things when mooring up - firstly double or triple the mooring rope (i.e. from boat to bank, back to the boat and back to the bank again) before pulling it tight - the purchase gives extra oomph. Secondly, if the boat is on the mud, I retighten after a few boats have gone past and she has dig her way closer in to the bank. Sean
