The shallow spot seems to be just outside the dolphins. Once I was in the slip I was floating at low tide.This is why I let my boat move around in an Oval fashion. The winds and tides are my "shovel".
The shallow spot seems to be just outside the dolphins. Once I was in the slip I was floating at low tide.This is why I let my boat move around in an Oval fashion. The winds and tides are my "shovel".
My guess is low tide canal traffic made the "hump".just outside the dolphins
The brown lines in the drawing below are the ones I am having issues with.What happened to your stern cleat BROWN lines in your post# 58?
Jim...
I have run the barrier lines, and they help center the bow of the boat, but I have not tied the bow lines to them. (I will try to get new pics this week.)Or Your corral idea?
Jim...
I have not installed the mid-ship cleats yet, but a spring-line from the starboard bow to a cleat at the end of the pier prevents me from hitting the seawall.Your new midships cleat won't keep you off the dock.
Jim...
Possibly, but they might interfere with the lifelines and/or the bimini frame, as the tide changes.Is there room to cross your sternlines?
- Will (Dragonfly)
At first blush, your anchor on the bow may be the key to the issue.But it presents a interesting "tide slack" Trig calculation
I was thinking of making something like this, but maybe using 1/4" stainless cable with turnbuckle, standoffs, and a stainless pulley instead,
So I finally got around to building and adding the fender boards last night. I shopped arround and found a guy selling used fenders/bumpers for $5 a piece on Craigs List, and the pics showed some nice ones. I picked up 6 nice ones for $30. I think they were salvaged in the Keys after last years storm.Use spring lines to keep the bow off the dock. Add a fender board with very large fenders hung off the starboard side where the boat meets the finger pier piling. Let the board rest against the piling when the wind is strong. Make sure the stanchions won't hit the piling as the boat will heel is extreme conditions.
A slip next to mine, the guy used plumbing pipe and fixtures to do the same thing like post #93. It held up through Isabell, but Florence will probably not be a test. /// I doubt those PVC pipes will survive a heavier thunderstorm, so I suggest you put another pipe or wood rod or something to reinforce the PVC pipe.. UV will weaken them and they will fail when you need them most. Goes with the wood cross-pieces. /// On the port-side spring line in post #96, I suggest you make about a 2-foot lung loop of line to put around the righthand stanchion and support the spring. Otherwise, the spring will chaffe the gel coat off the hull from up and down wiping action. Trust me on that one.I can't really draw the perspective right, but the cable slides would be on the seawall facing side of the pilings so that they would not interfere with (bump or scratch) the boat.
I am leaving them at the dock clipped onto the pilings.Chip. I like these for a H31 especially for slips with fixed pilings but where are u storing these when underway?
Jerry