Never Approach a Dock Faster ...
Than You Can Afford to Pay for the Damage!!!
Sage advice from the dockmaster at Galleon Marina in Key West!
Or as we'd always heard in the past: "Never approach a dock faster than you want to hit it".
It seems like fewer and fewer boaters pay attention to the go slow advice. Over this past winter, we've been unlucky enough to witness a few incidents such as this -- this one literally moved our boat a foot sideways with a sickening crunch and unbelievable noise. Luckily he hit the dock and not us, although it was close.
Even more luckily, no one was injured.
So we try to approach a dock with just enough speed to control the boat. It's best to just float in and throw a dock line to a dockmaster than to worry about how to get your boat fixed when you're enroute to the Eastern Caribbean. And besides, you won't give the dockmaster near heart failure as was the case here!
Than You Can Afford to Pay for the Damage!!!
Sage advice from the dockmaster at Galleon Marina in Key West!
Or as we'd always heard in the past: "Never approach a dock faster than you want to hit it".
It seems like fewer and fewer boaters pay attention to the go slow advice. Over this past winter, we've been unlucky enough to witness a few incidents such as this -- this one literally moved our boat a foot sideways with a sickening crunch and unbelievable noise. Luckily he hit the dock and not us, although it was close.
Even more luckily, no one was injured.
So we try to approach a dock with just enough speed to control the boat. It's best to just float in and throw a dock line to a dockmaster than to worry about how to get your boat fixed when you're enroute to the Eastern Caribbean. And besides, you won't give the dockmaster near heart failure as was the case here!
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