[Public-list] backing an Alberg

[Gordon White]

    I may be a wimp, but in part because I either single-hand or sail 
with my wife, at whom I do not want to yell, I don't back into my slip. 
(She always grabs the wrong line or doesn't grab any line and  we have 
to try again.)

    Of course I need to be more sensitive... as we drift helplessly out 
of reach of the dock lines, but that's another story.

    Anyway, my feeling is there is very little room for error backing 
INTO the slip, but if I head in and back out, there is a lot of room in 
the creek and even if I get headed up-creek instead of down-creek, there 
is room to circle. And little to hit.

    My Alberg in reverse is like my cat - she goes  where she wants to go.

    I love my wife, my boat and my cat and have to live as best I can 
with all three.

- Gordon White
A-267