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Orion · 08-29-2008, 08:52 AM

Dave R has the best approach. I don't recommend getting much momentum up in reverse since control in reverse is always difficult and less predictable and you're more likely to cause damage to your or other's boats. Slow and methodical. I like to have a bowline attached and run all the way back to someone standing in the rear of the boat. That way than can pass it around the end dock piling as it goes slowly by and step out on the dock to keep tension on the bow toward the dock as the boat is eased into the slip. A second person on the stern line is best if available. Once there are two people on the dock with lines, you can pull it in with the lines.

08-29-2008, 08:52 AM	#10
Orion Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: MA Posts: 914 Thanks: 598 Thanked 193 Times in 91 Posts	no so fast Dave R has the best approach. I don't recommend getting much momentum up in reverse since control in reverse is always difficult and less predictable and you're more likely to cause damage to your or other's boats. Slow and methodical. I like to have a bowline attached and run all the way back to someone standing in the rear of the boat. That way than can pass it around the end dock piling as it goes slowly by and step out on the dock to keep tension on the bow toward the dock as the boat is eased into the slip. A second person on the stern line is best if available. Once there are two people on the dock with lines, you can pull it in with the lines.