T&T: Dock line elasticity

[Randy Pickelmann]

The key to this is having a dock line with any elasticity at all.  I was
aboard a friend's sailboat one afternoon.  We were cruising together and he
had rigged a Dacron double braid as a dockline.  The boat would come up short
on that line and jerk abruptly with every passing wake.  It was very annoying.
We re-rigged with the same sized nylon double braid and the change was huge.
The lesson was that 5% elasticity is WAY better than no elasticity at all.
Regards,
Randy Pickelmann
hard aground in Clearwater
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