Hi,
We have new “bigger” boat this year and we’re still getting use to manoeuvring her alongside marina berths, not too much of a problem. But she has much more freeboard than our last boat. It’s no longer possible to “step off” onto the pontoon; it’s definitely a “jump down”! This presents a problem getting the initial mooring lines on, usually a mid ship line to a cleat, to stabilise the situation. We’re both in our mid 60’s and reasonable fit, but after both skidding across pontoons already this year after jumping, there an understandable reluctance to leap.
Does anyone know a “big hook” which will connect to a typical galvanised cleat on a pontoon and take the load of a 40’ yacht until we can get the normal mooring lines on? We have one of these Moorfast systems which will thread a line through an eye on mooring buoy (which works well), but it’s not big enough for a cleat. I’ve looked at the BOSCO 1000, but that doesn’t seem to be big enough for typical pontoon cleat either.
Anyone out there with any experience of a system which works?
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Cheers
Ian
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