Sea Quell crew. wrote: > 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.
[email protected] wrote: > What we do is run a line from the boat to the helm area, and long > enough to go back to the cleat, ,pull along side the line in the h2o, > hook the line with your boat hook, (hopefully it has a loop on the > end) run your boat line thru the hook and tie tie it to the bow. This > is all assuming you have . > 1. a mooring line, floating with a loop on the end, and > > 2. you approach down wind and current. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > What you guys seem to be saying is the same thing. Thanks, I'll try it. 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
