H33.5 owners how do you handle this?

[tcbro]

My boat is aft-in in my slip. We do not have floating docks here so I cross my stern lines. The H33.5 does not have line chocks for the stern dock lines nor does it have a good place to put them. My lines are constantly rubbing on my gelcoat. The locker lid edges (helm seat lockers) also chafe the lines. Does anybody have a better way?Toms/v Orion's Child

 

[Paul Akers]

Chafe Guards...

...should take care of it! Use the canvas-type that are about 12" in length. The gel coat won't chafe and neither will the dock line. Or, if you move the dock cleats to a straighter, in-line position, then that may help.Another alternative may be to turn the boat around into the opposite direction?

 

[Don S/V ILLusion]

diagram in Chapmans

Believe it is Chapmans in which I saw a diagram of an alternative you might use. Not sure I can explain it clearly but rather than run the aft lines crossed, they are run straight to the dock but a connecting line is used midway along them so as to form a "k" configuration which maintains tension but allows for tidal variation.

 

[Landsend]

Don't cross ypur lines...

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[Warren Milberg]

Seagull...?

Tom: not sure what to advise re your docklines, but is that a British Seagull OB hanging on your stern....???

 

[Deadline]

Go around the stainless pipe

That will reduce your tension by half and go easier on the gelcoat.

 

[s sauer]

Winch positions?

Could you get a cleaner angle if you took the stern lines one turn around the Genoa winches (with chafing protection) and then aft to a cleat? I slide 1/2" braided dock line thru 5/8"ID clear plastic hose as chafing gear, but can cleanly cross the cockpit under the stern rail on a 28.5 with the plastic hoses where it would cross the rub rail in the event of a really high tide.Docking bow in may be the better option as well.

 

[Alan]

Please explain...

..."We do not have floating docks here so I cross my stern lines." Why do you have the need to cross them?If you want you could put a single cleat mounted athwart-ships on centerline and just under the top step of the ladder in the lowered position.

 

[Mike Oatsvall]

around the stanchion

I have a similar setup on my 33. Put leather or rubber chafe protection on your line and run it outside of the stanchion.

 

[Alan]

tcbro

You don't say whether or not your docks are floating. Dock lines are never pulled taught they simply limit the amount of movement that the vessel has. The shock loading on a short line is exactly the same as a long one the longer will simply stretch further. However, if you insist on longer lines simply run the starboard dock line through the port dock ring and back through the starboard dock ring then to your starboard cleat. Repeat for the opposite side. Now you have more than doubled the length.

 

[Baysailor2]

Hey Tom...

on our new floating docks, the dock cleats were not put at the most advantageous points on the finger pier side. As a consequence, I cross my dock lines at about the swim ladder, bringing them through there to the inside of the stern rails and cleat them off. I use a bungee cord to hang them off the swim ladder rung, but because of the Hunter design placement, there is no way to keep them from rubbing on the glasswork unless they were led directly off to the sides. Kinda defeats the purpose of crossing them. All four corners have snubbers on their lines--we do get some nasty wake wave oscillations.

 

[tcbro]

Hi Dan

I, too, use a bungee to hold my dock lines up. If I don't they sag down and keep lifting the lids to the lockers on my swim platform. The clasps were broken off long ago, probably the first time someone let the swim ladder down without first locking them. My lines cross just behind the ladder (although, it's a different setup that yours) then they go behind the inside verticle posts on my sternrail and inside of the outer sternrail posts. I'd like to be able to get them off of the fiberglass but I can't figure out how.Did you figure out what day you will be at the boat show yet?Toms/v Orion's Child

 

[Sam Lust]

Add cleats.

You need to add cleats. I see a nice flat area between where the propeller shows and the corner of the hull. Once you've drilled one hole in your hull the rest come easy. Use nice big, heavy cleats. To quote, "you can't have too many cleats". I think I said that.