{"id":6765,"date":"2010-01-29T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T20:51:31","slug":"tieing-up-with-big-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/tieing-up-with-big-tides\/","title":{"rendered":"Tieing Up With Big Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fishguard-wales-uk-146.jpg\" alt=\"Fishguard-Wales-UK-146\" width=\"576\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally it is necessary to tie to commercial docks in areas with high tidal ranges. The West Coast of the UK is one such area where tides can range from ten feet (3m) on the low end to 40 feet (12m) or more in parts of Bristol Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you want to be continually adjusting lines, very long bow and stern lines are used as in the photo above. They will be slack at high tide, but as long as the wind is off the end of the boat, or blowing you onto the dock, you will be fine.<\/p>\n<p>If the breeze is off the dock an adjustable breast line is used when going ashore. Much more on this subject will be found in <em>Practical Seamanship<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally it is necessary to tie to commercial docks in areas with high tidal ranges. The West Coast of the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/tieing-up-with-big-tides\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/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-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765"}],"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=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}