It's so strange to try to tie to a dinghy dock and see the following: 1) dinghies tied close on 3-ft painters; thus, preventing others from access to the bull rail; and 2) dinghies tied with double braid nylon lines that get sopping wet while being handled. Standing there watching some "boater" wrapping the soggy line several times around the bull rail, apparently to shorten it, is bizarre. With 3-strand polypro you can wrap bull rail once or twice and then just pass the bitter end once or twice through the strands (as in a splice) and it will hold very well. It's quick, easy, and comparatively dry. A long painter (as it should be) will not sink to catch on the OBs of the other boats around, etc. Based on my visit to Isthmus Cove this past weekend, I'd estimate that fewer than half of boaters either know or practice the "etiquette" of tying to a dinghy dock.
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