Take the remainder of the rope and wind it into a neat coil beside the cleat, so it doesn’t become a tripping hazard.Īnd there you have it! Make sure you practice several times before setting out. The end of the rope will be on your side of the cleat. If this isn’t the case, you’ve twisted the rope incorrectly - unwind and try again, or else your knot may come undone.
It should look like a neat figure eight with two strands (including the one you’re holding) running side-by-side and one crossing over top of them in the other direction. How do you know if you’ve done this right? Look at how the rope crosses over the middle of the cleat. (To do so, twist the rope towards yourself.) Slide this loop over the horn closest to your boat and pull tight towards yourself. Loop the rope under and over the other horn of the cleat, creating a figure eight.ĭouble up the remaining line into a loop and twist it once so the loose end is on the bottom. If the boat is to your left, bring the rope around to the right side of the cleat.īring the rope along the front (your side) of the cleat’s base, around to the back, and over the top of the horn closest to your boat, pulling the rope towards you. In other words, if you’re standing on the dock in front of the cleat and your boat is to your right, bring the rope around to the left side of the cleat. Otherwise you can just stay in gear while you pump out.Take your rope and bring it around the base of the cleat on the side farthest from your boat - this creates the tension you need to keep the knot secure. If you need to do a lengthy fuel up or need to take your boat out of gear for another reason then the crew can secure the boat normally with mooring lines. The boat will be sucked into the dock and held there so that crew can safely and slowly disembark. Then pop into forward with very low throttle and turn the wheel away from the dock. Ask the crew to toss the aft spring loop onto a cleat. Make adjustments (reverse if you’re going too fast, forward if you’ve lost way) and slow down until you are stopped or nearly stopped a few feet away from the dock. Approach slowly in forward gear, turn 30 degrees to the dock until you judge you are getting close, then straighten the wheel.
Prepare an aft spring loop on the appropriate side. This is an “aft spring loop” and will be your docking line for forward approaches. Mark it or cut it so that you can quickly tie it off to the right length. Bring the other end of your line to the midships/waist cleat with the line almost touching the water. Forward Approachįirst prepare the line you will be using. In each case the engine direction is in opposition to the placement of the line – for a reverse approach you use a forward spring loop, for a forward approach you use an aft spring loop. There are two ways to do this depending on whether you are reversing into position or going forward to a halt.
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