I finally put my H22 into the wet slip this weekend. The weather was fighting me for a while, but it strangely cooperated this past week. I had two obnormally warm days to do the bottom paint. Even stranger was the weather when I put the boat in the water. It was extremely windy the day I put the boat in my slip. I was a bit nervous because I knew that I was going into a brand new slip and it is tough with a high cross wind and current. The wind was over 20 knots constant with higher gusts as I was arriving to my dock. I was making my approach and turned the bow into the wind. Just as I was making my turn into the wind the wind died. I put the boat in the slip like I knew what I was doing (looked like a pro) and put my ropes on. Just after I put all the canvas on (over my sails and my wood) the wind came back and a little rain started to fall. Very strange... I had one other thing work out really well for me. I didn't realize it but when I set my ropes on the pilings I had set my stern ropes in high on the pilings and my front ropes were tied to cleats on the dock. The benifit was that as the tide came up the boat moves slightly forward because the front ropes will go slightly below the level of the bow as the stern ropes get more slack. As the tide goes out the stern ropes will cause the boat to move back in the slip as they loose slack and the bow ropes give slack. This allows the perfect side to side distance between the side pilings and the side of the boat. Watched it for two days and everything was fine.