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swhotshot Posts: 6 Location: Tenants Harbor/Pt Clyde M... Registered: September 2007	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde Sun, 16 September 2007 16:50 I certainly agree with the Port Clyde comment. The fuel dock attendent there, instead of taking passed line to a cleat, took the line and pulled the starboard bow in to the dock just as the forward part of my boat crossed the wind break of the dock. That left my starboard side stern exposed to the wind just as I had slowed and the boat had lost steerageway. That hard pulling to the dock on my starboard bow, coupled with the gusting wind from the dock side on my starboard stern, in a short two seconds twisted the boat aspect from one of parallel to the pier to perpendicular to the pier and my stern was in the rocks some 40 feet off the dock before I could engage the engines to correct the situation. I was very lucky. The numerous deep holes punched in my stern by the rocks came close but fortunately did not puncture the hull or I would have immediately sunk blocking the entire access to Port Clyde. It did take off my port trim tab, tipple the screws and loosen the shaft struts requiring hauling and costly repairs. The lesson learned here is not to trust the attendent to know what to do but to positively reinforce and explain to your crew what to do and to tell the attendent loudly in no uncertain terms what you expect him to do. In retrospect, I should have told him to ignore the bow line and to immediately secure the stern line or a spring line. I could easily have sprung in to the fuel dock on the stern, or a spring line, despite the gusting wind off the dock and avoided the entire embarrasing and costly event. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Monhegan, Cliff, Damariscove	Curtis Rindlaub	Mon, 08 January 2007 08:05
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Wills Gut	dasein668	Mon, 08 January 2007 09:18
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Damariscove	acesatsea	Mon, 08 January 2007 22:32
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Camden	jerryaxler	Mon, 22 January 2007 08:11
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Camden, Rockport, Gilkey	Tom Young	Fri, 26 January 2007 15:55
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Camden, Rockport, Gilkey	Madmako	Wed, 15 July 2009 22:26
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Potts, Port Clyde, Cape Newagen	Gail	Tue, 08 May 2007 20:09
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde	swhotshot	Sun, 16 September 2007 16:50
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde	Curtis Rindlaub	Mon, 17 September 2007 17:40
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde, Tennants	swhotshot	Mon, 17 September 2007 18:25
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde, Tennants	Curtis Rindlaub	Tue, 18 September 2007 08:33
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde, Tennants	swhotshot	Tue, 18 September 2007 10:15
	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Camden, Gosport	Lance F. Gunderson	Wed, 09 May 2007 11:56

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