GL: Making up to a dock was--- DO NOT Give up control of your vessel

[Charles and Pat Culotta]

Charles:
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.

Reply:
Yeah, yeah, yeah -- but can you do it Charles?  There has got to be a method
out there easy enough for us guys to handle!

:-)


Alan Wagner


Alan,

Actually it is very easy. Pat, THE WIFE is incharge of tying up the boat on
docking( and setting the fenders on approach). If I happen to set them she
will come behind me and
modify if they don't meet her standards.

Try the FOUR FOOT EYE, spliced in of course. A " cowboy lasso" absolutely will
not work. Cowboy rope is very stiff. Very stiff and will hold the circle, our
lines are soft and will not.

The large eye also makes it easy, so easy that it is hard to believe, to get a
line off of a cleat from on the  boat---- the safe place to be. No matter how
far away the cleat is or how low to the boat.

An added attraction of making your own lines with he large DIAMETER eyes is
the money that you save.
Get a 600 ft spool of 5/8 twisted line at a commercial fishery supply store
for abt $150. Do the math.  That is  TWO SETS ( 6 lines each) of long lines
for your boat or one set and a 300 ft anchor rode. I have done this for over
25 yrs.

CCC


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