Slip anchoring

[Hawk4661]

As a novice sailor ,I just found two small plastic pieces of my boats bow on the floating slip deck after storm. I had NOT left enough room ,evidentally, to keep the bow nose from coming down on slip deck during a storm.
It appears that the boat was liftted up and dropped by waves ????.......this boat slip is not in a no wake zone.!?.
There is two small peices that are broken off the boats deck, immediately below where the rubber rub rail is located.
I had used two bow lines on bow, two aft lines port and starboard,and two swing lines on port. The distance from bow to slips deck then was about ten inches but still not enough to prevent this damage..........and broken heart.
I have since re-tied her, and have at least eigthteen inches, to two feet distance from the boat slips deck to boats bow deck.
I hope my hine sigth message may help / others in preventing the same disasterious occurance.
Comments welcome.........fair winds to all.

 

[MABell]

Not sure what swing lines are, but you should defiantly have two spring lines to keep the boat from moving forward.
And your right, 12 inches isn’t enough. 18 may not be enough as the lines stretch a lot.
I've done the same thing - so rights of passage I guess.

 

[isaksp00]

I don't know your slip config (e.g., finger piers only on port, both?), but you may want to try backing her in. Cross the stern lines, so the port stern line goes across the stern to the starboard finger pier cleat, and vice versa. This helps when waves (or whatever) lift the boat, so the lines have more "up and down" give without affecting the side-to-side position. And you want both a bow and stern spring line, where obviously the one that keeps her from hitting the pier is most critical.