Use the right line for your vessel, since a line too large will pull hard
against the vessel rather than stretch and ease the vessel into place,
and lines too small will wear and chafe under strain.
Securing Lines_________________________________
When mooring your boat, make sure the dock lines are secured at
both ends. Depending on your situation, you may need to loop the
eye splice of the dock line around a piling to ensure it doesn’t come
off with weather or tide conditions. Loop the eye splice around piling
twice to keep it from being pulled up off the pile. If your line is too
small to loop around twice, consider wrapping the line around the
piling and inserting the tail end of the line through the eye splice, and
pulling tight before attaching the tail end to your boat.
If you must drop a line over a piling that already holds another boat’s
line, run the eye of the line up through the fi rst eye of the other boat’s
line, before dropping your eye splice over the piling. This will allow
either line to be removed without disturbing the other.
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Vessel Operation
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