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Backing makes it easier leave when you're impaired or being pursued...
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Stern in is the only way...
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Originally Posted by Cattitude
(Post 678009)
Ok- maybe shame on me for not knowing this cause I've been running boats a while now...
What's the logic of backing into slips vs. pulling straight in? Is it a larger boat thing? Stepping on and off via the transom? The "cool" way to do it? more for twins or inboards? required at some marinas? Perceived better control? Nose to the incoming wakes/waves? Some other reason I'm missing? Give me a clue please. My winter project is to build a new lift (air) for my single engine Pantera. The front pivot type is more common and easier fab but commits you to nose the boat in. I can build a four bar type lift which is always parallel etc but it's more work and at least at this time- I can't see the benefit. |
:lolhit:
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Originally Posted by bonesmalon
(Post 3602579)
Liars! All Liars! It's to allow everyone in the marina to get to listen to our finely tuned motors that much longer
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sPBpp5rZkQ[/YOUTUBE] |
Originally Posted by machloosy
(Post 3602364)
Backing in makes a lot more sense, but sometimes it gets tricky with a single. Stepping off the swim platform is the biggest plus. And how do you get a drunk girlfriend over the bow??? :evilb:
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Originally Posted by blue thunder
(Post 3602168)
I like old threads. Only a handful of original posters to this thread are still around. What ever happened to Lutzparty and Miss Amy?
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Originally Posted by Griff
(Post 3602737)
I talk to or PM back and forth with them a few times a year. Last I knew, they only have a ski boat at LOTO now and don't go down as much as they used to.
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I remember pulling into slips the first year I owned my boat. Didn't know any better. Then the guy I was slipped next to at LOTO gave me some good natured ribbing and told me I needed 2 things if I was going to be a boater instead of a boat owner. First, I needed a set of BAF's (Big A$$ Fenders). Second, I needed to learn how to back into a slip. One of my best memories of boating was spending an afternoon at Bass Point at LOTO learning how to back an 8'6" wide boat into a 10' wide slip.
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Originally Posted by Knot 4 Me
(Post 3602856)
One of my best memories of boating was spending an afternoon at Bass Point at LOTO learning how to back an 8'6" wide boat into a 10" wide slip.
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Originally Posted by Downtown42
(Post 3602863)
hopefully at HIGH TIDE :lolhit: :evilb:
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Originally Posted by audacity
(Post 678035)
on top of the above mention reasons....i was once told that backing into a slip was to welcome visitors and pulling in forward was to indicate that you were going to keep to yourself.
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I rack n launch my boat, if you come back late, back the boat in, they pull it out in the morning and put it away -- pull it in forward, they leave it in the water because you are either sleeping in it or will be back for it.
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Simple,
if you back in and then step off your swim platform, you stay dry. If you pull in and step off your swim platform, you get wet. |
Most marinas make it virtually impossibly to slip a boat bow in. Trying to get off the boat, you'd be 4' or more from the nearest dock, meaning, wet. There was no dock where he'd step out, like most marinas.
I had to go stern in last year in the wind. 10' slip, maybe, and only a finger for egress. Even at only 22', backing in with a single Alpha 3 blade is just not fun. Twins rule. I backed in a 34' Sea Ray once with twins and it was so easy. But it's far more sociable and fun to tie up stern in. |
If I back in my boat, There is no way I'm able to get off of my boat. With the bracket and motors, I would have to be a long jumper. No offense to the people who think backing in a boat is way cooler, but i'm past the age of trying to look cool. I need to impress myself and nobody else ( I think the captain of that cruise ship off of Italy was trying to look cool and impress people and that didn't really work out so well )
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