Beginners Mistakes

[ranworthbreeze]

The issue is not only limited to mooring up. Many years ago when we were moored at Ferry Marina, we had called back to horning and rather than go into our moorings we moored at the Ferry Inn's moorings by the bins at there furthest end of their moorings, we were not staying but had called in to pick something up Tan was getting ready for casting off on the forward ropes and I had started the engine from the lower helm, the boat lurched forward taking strain on both sets of ropes. The upper helm Morse control had been caught and was at about a third throttle. Shut down again we checked out the ropes and set off again.

This topic is titled beginners mistakes, but from the posts you can see that we all make mistakes from time to time so lets not knock the beginners who have to start boating, we were all there in the past.

Regards

Alan

[Wussername]

Grab rails are placed on a boat for a purpose. It is not a resting place for boat hooks, mops and fishing rods. In your hour of need you will be challanged to obtain a secure hold.

[WherryNice]

The other side of 'don't stop the engine until boat is secured' is don't cast off until the engine is running! Had to play pass the battery(boat to boat) with my brother in law mid Salhouse Broad after he did just that only to find his starter solenoid went clickclickclickclickclickclick when he turned the key!

[NorfolkNog]

Sound advice. Good job it was Salhouse Broad and not Reedham on an ebb tide!