[Public-list] Moor on docking

Wed Sep 14 08:13:37 PDT 2005

Last year my starter roasted itself and I was stuck engineless 1/4 mile from
the dock. I flagged down a very reluctant 25' powerboat and had to convince
him to let me go exactly when I said "LET GO" so that I could continue on my
momentum for another 4 boat lengths and ease into the dock.  Not something I
would want to repeat every voyage. 

My dad had a beautiful old wooden sailboat, and we learned to sail her in
when the tide was low, and you had a nice mud cushion to stop forward
motion.

Mike
Rinn Duin #272

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org]On Behalf Of Roger L Kingsland
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:43 AM
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Subject: [Public-list] Moor on docking

Phil Prosser wrote,
"Learn how to sail her to the dock.  It can be done... I know because I
have had to do it several times."

Speaking of docking;

I sailed with my family on the wooden schooner Appledore III in Boothbay
Harbor, ME several years ago.  She is one of several Appledores owned by
Herb
and Doris Smith and was being day chartered while they finished work below
before making another circumnavigation.

Anyway, we motored out to spy some whales and sailed back through a tight
harbor, right
up to the dock.  Not bad for 65' on deck and 25 tons displacement, talk
about momentum.  We did sufficiently "bump" the dock for Herb to
immediately go forward and check for damage which there was none.

I went to summer school at Tabor Academy in Marion, MA (back way before
email) where they had a neat teaching exercise that I would like my kids to
learn (in "Stupid Dingy," not the A30).  The instructor would hold a balloon
against the leeward side of the dock and we wee sailors had to head into the
wind and touch the balloon with bow of our wee sloops without breaking it
(or
the dock, as was the unfortunate case for one student who shall remain
unnamed).

Then there was the time a friend and I stopped at a at a marina near the
Chart House Restaurant in Annapolis.  Three of four guys at the gas dock
standing next
to a Donzi fishing boat (I didn't know Donzi made fishing boats but this one
looked pretty nice; about 32 feet with a big, open cockpit and fly bridge).
Because of their perplexed expressions we asked what up and learned that the
operator had pumped fuel into a fishing rod holder mounted in the narrow
side deck (you know, one of those round chrome flanges with a rubber cover).
They
were speculating as to the best way to remove 75 gallons of gasoline from
the bilge.  I extinguished my cigarette.

Roger Kingsland
Chief Boat Boy, Rubber/Scraper and Check Writer
Alberg 30 #148, PERFECT intentions
N40-33.92, W79-51.25

"You don't have to think outside of the box, but it doesn't hurt to peek
over the edge once in a while."
Leonardo Da Vinci (or somebody like that)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Prosser" <philprosser at alltel.net>
To: "'Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all'" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Public-list] Outboard motors as emergency units

> Learn how to sail her to the dock.  It can be done... I know because I
have
> had to do it several times.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-list-bounces at alberg30.org
> [mailto:public-list-bounces at alberg30.org] On Behalf Of
> dickdurk at atlanticbb.net
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 9:47 PM
> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
> Subject: Re: [Public-list] Outboard motors as emergency units
>
> >But now the question is, What do I do if the wind dies, >the diesel
> >won't work, and I've run out of OB mix?
>
> Enter my reference to the sweep oar. I've played around with it a little
> bit, both on the side and mounted aft (as a scull). Sculling seems to be
> best-Lin Pardy discusses it in detail in one of her books. It takes a lot
of
> sea room with it mounted on the side because you have to get boat speed up
> so the rudder controls torque, if you follow.
>
> Anyway my holdup to using it more is lack of oarlock for the hughmongous
> diameter of the shaft of the oar. I intend someday to sandcast one in
> bronze. Like I need another hobby...
>
> I have towed the Alberg around the harbor using a dingy with oars as a
> towboat. Once she gets moving that works well. A chain or some kind of
> weight in the middle of the towline to even out the surge of rowing (a
> catenary), one could go for miles, in calm.
>
> Michael Grosh
> #220
>
>
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