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Great Tips for All Boaters
Springing On and Off a Dock
For this scenario picture trying to get your boat into a mooring (parking) place that has just about enough room for your boat. Unlike what you learned in auto driving school for parallel parking, you do NOT pull alongside the forward boat and back in.
Remember the Seinfield episode where George was backing in and another chap was pulling in? They had a standoff for the whole show.., blocking traffic, etc.
Well, in docking a boat, George loses.
Assuming you are landing port side to the dock, pull the bow in and use a
spring line from forward on the boat to a cleat or piling aft of that point. Then the helm should be put hard right and given power. That will swing the stern into the dock. That is the art of springing your boat into the dock because you are using a
spring line.
To spring off the dock, use the same spring
line from the forward on the boat (bow) to a cleat or piling aft. Now turn the helm hard left and apply power. Once the stern kicks out, release the
spring line and back out.
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Note on the spring
line:
Assuming there is no one on the dock to help, use a "clean"
spring
line. That means there can be no knots, loops or anything that will catch
on a cleat, dock or whatever. The
spring
line goes from the boat, around the cleat and back to the boat. Once the
boat is sprung off the dock, release the bitter end and pull the clean line through
the block and back to the boat. You are then clear to move about the country.)
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Having Great Starts (Part 2.5)
What if...
You are getting ready for start. What is there to do?
In the last issue I talked about “homework” you must do for each and every start.
There are four items of that homework. They are:
1) The favored end of the line (v. favored side of the course)
2) Time the line (knowledge of the length of the line)
3) Get a transit (know where the line actually is)
4) Check for current
In
the last issue we more or less defined what a Favored End was and pointed out
the advantages of starting at that Favored End.
However, there are some other
considerations. The Favored End might just be very crowded, as many of the
boats will want to start there.
If you are a great boat-handler and can pull
off the perfect start next to the pin, then go for it.
On the other hand, if
you are not that Rock Star sailor, then at least consider starting NEAR the
favored end where there will be less congestion.
See Diagram 1.
Stay
tuned for the next issue. We will delve a bit deeper into Item 1 of the four
pieces of homework – The Favored End of the Line.
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Dear Capt. Noah,
You know I really get sick of your constant
avocation of drinking. My boyfriend and skipper on our Hobie 16 keeps quoting
you all the time. Why don’t you give it up?
I personally drink only a few times a year and even then find it distasteful. And it certainly is bad for your health.
Why don’t you wise up and tell the facts of how bad drinking is for you?
Maybe then he might quote you on something that makes sense.
Sick of Drunks
Dear SOD,
As Ben Franklin said:
"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria."
In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) -- that is bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of manure.
However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer (or tequila, rum, Whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Ergo: Water = DooDoo; Wine = Health
Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of you-know-what.
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