chrishelen
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How about the good old centre cleat,you can feed your warp through and bring it back to the cockpit.
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TonyS
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Reged: 23/02/2003
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Loc: Southampton, UK
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We are the same as you. We solved the problem with a "pontoon hook". I was paid by PBO for the article! You go to B&Q and buy a metre length of perforated galvanised strip- used to be £2. About 30 mm wide and 7mm thick. Cut in two - you have material to make 2! Bend the end round about a 3" radius using large adjustable spanners and a good vice, leaving a straight piece. To this attach at the end a shackle with a mooring line. In the top place a cable tie so that it forms a loop for the end of the boat hook. The extended flat piece keeps the centre of gravity below the hook stopping it fallig off. I covered mine with a cycle tube to prevent possible damage to the topsides.
Place SWMBO amidships with boat hook extended in hand with the hook on the end held on by the mooring rope running up the boathook.
SWMBO puts the hook over a cleat or bar at the end of a French pontoon, removes boathook, and cleats off the end of the mooring line. You are now attached. Motor further forward so boat pulled into side. You can now put step on pontoon, step off and deal with remaining mooring ropes at your leisure.
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Tony
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jrh713
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Reged: 06/09/2007
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Hi,
I found fixing a sliding bowline to the end of my boathook with a couple of turns of pvc insulating tape to work good. Once hooked onto cleat just pull to release boathook. Cheapest option.
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Piers
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Reged: 02/06/2001
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Why not just throw a looped warp to the cleat? We do this from the bows of our Fleming. All it took was some practice and it's fine. I really can't see why there is any need to jump or step off the boat at all until fitting the springs. Jumping and stepping can result in accidents, which reminds me that two years ago, we watched a yacht come alongside a hammer head in Le Havre, both persons on board humped off with the ends of the ropes (one fwd, one aft) but the boat's bumped against the pontoon and the pull was so great that both ropes were dropped and the yacht gently floated away to the other side of the marina! Why not just stay on board and throw a loop? Simple, no fretting, looks propfessional.
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tobble
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Reged: 04/10/2005
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Loc: Southampton
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reverse in and have crew go ashore from the stern with bow rope in hand. I invariably do this with my cat when single handed.
can't you train your cat to jump of and put a few turns on a cleat? 
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nothing-absolute nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
"I'm as honest as the day is long // the longer the daylight the less I do wrong"
Edited by tobble (14/05/2008 15:37)
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TonyS
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It doesn't work with French pontoons. See picture above. They have no cleats but a ring at the end. Otherwise I agree.
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TonyS
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It doesn't work with French pontoons. See picture above. They have no cleats but a ring at the end. Besides most SWMBOs cannot throw anything!!
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doug748
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Reged: 01/10/2002
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Loc: Plymouth
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......and those are the easy French pontoons. On the really difficult ones the ends are flat. about 3 inches deep and clad in black plastic. Impossible to get a loop over if the other side is in use, and too beefy for most carbine type hooks.
Edited by doug748 (14/05/2008 17:14)
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Danny
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Besides most SWMBOs cannot throw anything!!
My SWMBO has an award on the mantlepiece for throwing the welly boot at a sports event.
Some years ago we were watching a boat come in to a pontoon in Miami. He was at the tiller giving orders. She was on deck with the ropes. He tells Her repeatedly and loudly to jump ashore and make fast. She doesn't think He's getting the boat close enough to the pontoon. He backs the boat out and tries again - repeatedly - getting louder all the time. Eventually She throws the coil of rope down on the deck, walks back to the cockpit, slaps Him round the chops! Silence reigns.
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Piers
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Reged: 02/06/2001
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Loc: Berkshire, UK
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Agreed. These non-horn cleats are inded a pain. But did I hear that in Cherbourg (at least) new horn-style cleats are being installed?
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