Break it down onto smaller projects. 1) Preparation. Get everything ready, the way you like it (this varies). I prefer a long line, cleated at the bow and able to reach the stern, passing outside of all rigging. Sometimes I have such a line on both port and starboard.
2) Focus on your aim and speed. If your initial aim is accurate enough, and your overall motion is not excessive, things are easier. Wind and current are important. Try to bring the mooring up near the bow, but alongside is fine too. 3) Snag the mooring. Once you have the bow-line through the mooring, you're almost there. 4) Fasten the line. One end was already attached at the bow cleat. Now you need to attach the end that passed through the mooring. If you are lucky, you can attach it to the bow cleat. If not, put it on the mid-ship, or stern cleat. This will limit the movement of the boat, and bring it to a stop. Sometimes you can hold the line without cleating it, if you are moving very slowly. 5) Let the boat stop and settle with wind & current. The bow will point up-wind, or up-current and drift back from the mooring. 6) Finalize your lines. if you were unable to fasten your line to the bow cleat in step 4 above, this is the time to do it. This seems to work for me. Good luck! -Neal. Jim Lynch wrote: > I'm about to venture off into an area I'm not familiar with. I'm going > to single hand the boat down to mid-florida and probably have to pick up > a mooring without benefit of a first mate. I've done it before alone > but that was with a much smaller boat a lot closer to the water and I > was considerably quicker in my youth. Any suggestions as to how to > pickup a mooring from 4' above the water single handed? I'm thinking > about bringing the mooring along side with a long line from the bow, but > it's tricky getting a knot in the line or a line through the loop and > then getting back to the bow. How does anyone do that? > > Thanks, > Jim. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
