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frog0911
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Response Posted - 08/13/2004 :  16:35:34  Show Profile
As of this time with a expected 3-4 feet I have 11 lines on the boat. The first four are tight at high tide with rubber snubbers, with 3 raps each which gives you about 11/2 additional feet of rope. The next four have 3 feet of slack, the next two have 3 feet of slack, but go to piles that keep the boat off the finger dock and the last goes from the bow eye to the top of a pile with 3 feet of slack. In other words lots of rope, snubbers and bumpers, both on the piles and the boat. After all that you just pray you've done it all correctly. It is all an educated guess based on information from others and your own experiences.
With it turning now more to the East I will have to go adjust since we will probably have more of a surge.
Good luck and God speed to all in Charley's path.
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MattL
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Response Posted - 08/14/2004 :  02:25:47  Show Profile
One last good wish for all of you in the path. Good fortune and if your a surfer, bitchen waves.
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Bruce Baker
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Response Posted - 08/16/2004 :  08:55:40  Show Profile
Bobmac asked:

Im curious as to how one ties their boat up so that there is enough slack to accomodate a 10-12' rise in the water level (surge), but also keep things tight enough to prevent the boat from being tossed around in the wind.

If I left 10-12' of slack on my tie off lines, I'd be bouncing off other boats, docks, piers, even in the slightest of wind.

Do 1" diameter bungee cords come into play ? Howz it work ?

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In the days before my marina went to floating docks, many boats tied their bows to the fixed docks with regular dock lines, but had their stern lines attached to pilings with turning blocks attached to cement blocks. The cement blocks would rise and fall with the tides. It's amazing to me that the Potomac River has three feet of tide in the city of Washington, 100 miles from the Bay. But it does.
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