[Public-list] Moor on docking

[Rob Alley]

Then there was the time a friend and I stopped at a at a marina near the
Chart House Restaurant in Annapolis....  They
were speculating as to the best way to remove 75 gallons of gasoline from the bilge.  I extinguished my cigarette.


My Uncle, an Episcopalian Chaplain in the USAF for 30 odd years, used to 
sing these alternative words to "My Bonny Lies Over the Water".....

My bonnie leaned over the gas tank
The height of its contents to see.....
She lit a match to assist her
Oh, bring back my bonnie to me!!

I was just learning to tend bar for the two brothers when I first heard 
this--which may give you some idea of the circumstances of utterance.

Rob


Roger L Kingsland wrote:

>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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