{"id":589,"date":"2006-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-04-15T08:59:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T13:59:20","slug":"s_logs-dashew-tie_up_pilings_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/s_logs-dashew-tie_up_pilings_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tying Up to Pilings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">Tying up to pilings.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In many parts of the cruising world, tying up against pilings is the only option. This is one of the reasons we favor heavy-duty rubbing rails, and are prepared to pay the weight and performance penalties associated with them.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;re heading north along the Pacific Coast at the moment, piling berths become more the norm in many places. Here&#8217;s a shot taken at Noyo Harbor in Northern California. This pier is mostly used by commercial fish boats to unload their catches.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/pilingtie_2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the negatives of tying up like this is the view is not quite as nice.<\/p>\n<p><div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"396\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/pilingtie_1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>All of our own (and our clients&#8217;) boats have had rub rails. As<em> Wind Horse<\/em> is not as sensitive to weight above the water line, she has a very substantial rail, as shown below. This rail is strong enough to take substantial shock loads if we&#8217;re thrown against the piling by moderate waves or a wake.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/piling_tie_4.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Of course this rub rail shows a bit of wear. But that is easily cleaned when we return to a cruising area with docks.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/5-3-06-131.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the issues with commercial docks is getting on and off the boat. It can be tricky, especially if the ladder is badly abused, as is the case in the photo below. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" class=\"mosimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" hspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/dashew\/pilinmgtie_3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For more info on tying up to pilings, see page 483 in<em>Practical Seamanship.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tying up to pilings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}