GL: One More Time-- Mooring - DO NOT Give up control of your vessel to shore side folks

[Charles and Pat Culotta]

Rich, and those supporting his post, are absolutely correct.
Steve, I guess this topic will end when the last person realizes the correct 
and safest manner of tying a boat to a dock.

Please read the article that I wrote for  PASSAGEMAKER mag. It is on my web 
site so I will not go into all the REASONS to do it right.

Docking a boat is not flying an airplane nor parallel parking a car.

I can honestly say that the only bad docking incidents that my wife and I 
have had have been when the " help" on the dock would not follow my wife or 
my request as to what we NEEDED done with our lines.

We stop , dead stop, well off the dock and plan the procedure that we intend 
to use. No matter what we tell the " help" , invariably they will not do as 
requested.

I could relate a no. of instances of such. Why this is I don't know, it just 
is.We do not turn down help out of hand but do SPECIFICALLY REQUEST  what we 
need done.

In closing, note how real ships and boat are tied by the professionals, the 
eye is on the dock or piling.

A FOUR FOOT DIAMETER eye can be walked up and off of a piling 15 feet high 
from 20 ft or more away with little effort-----by my wife.

CCC
CHARLES C., JR. & PAT CULOTTA
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