*What do your marina mates think of*those (non-believers)*who dock bow-in?* With boats stern-to-stern, are there frequent and loud conversations between boats?**Are all/most the vessels*twin-engined motorboats with few or no sailboats?*rwidman wrote:
Nearly everyone at my marina backs into their slips. All the wet slip holders do. Once in a while a dry stack customer will take a slip for a weekend and a few of them pull in.
It's a pretty social place so there's a lot of getting on and off the boats, entertaining, etc. We couldn't do that bow in.
* * * ** DittoSeaHorse II wrote:mahal wrote:
Bow in. Nice to have the fairway as a backdrop when enjoying the aft deck. There is no privacy the other way.
*DittoCarey wrote:
*We are bow in as well. Part of the reason is that there are triangular fillers where our finger pier meets the main float, which forces the boat three feet further into the fairway if backed in.
rocheport wrote....
Back out, the starboard walk swings the boat in the right direction to go ahead. Also pull in on starboard side, then reverse pulls the stern into the dock. It is like having a stern thruster.........
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Ditto for me exactly, in fact 7tiger7's reason below is about the only reason I could imagine one would normally want to reverse in - short finger and unable to access boarding platform and transom gate.* Especially if you only have a single.* Having said that, no doubt someone will think of something...yes we know twins are different...and ferry masters can make singles actually talk...but in the real world...
7tiger7 wrote:
*PS. Another reason we tend to not back in unless we have twins is our marinas here in Aus tend to have 2 boats between fingers, so one docks to st'bd and one to port, and if things go pear-shaped backing in, more damage to the other boat is likely.* I have actually had to fend off someone doing exactly that when my berth partner boat, even with twins, got crossed up backing in and even fending him off with a boathook he put a nasty gouge in my gunwhale cap.* I see many of you have a finger each side, so if you drift off it is only finger you hit - hopefully padded on the edge.I back in, and pull out. I board the boat from the swim platform, if I went bow in I wouldn't be able to get on board (I could jump off the pulpit to the dock though.... maybe:
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