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swhotshot Posts: 6 Location: Tenants Harbor/Pt Clyde M... Registered: September 2007	Re: Worst nights/anchorages in Maine: Port Clyde, Tennants Mon, 17 September 2007 18:25 That does sound like the issue Curtis. I didn't tell the full story to save time and space. When I first approached the dock there was a boat tied up at the fueling dock but at the very end which meant I would have had to pass his boat and somehow go sideways into the pier against the gusting wind and the current and make the landing between the end boat and another land side boat. There was about 30-40 feet of space. I knew that was impossible (I cannot go sideways) so I requested a very reluctant person to warp his boat around to the end of the pier, where I had originally docked and then found the hose (as you indicated) too short to reach. I backed off the end and he did then move his boat but left his outboard well past the pier so that I could not come straight in as I wanted to but had to angle it in well off the pier going against the wind and current. The so called attendent originally was adament that I should dock the way the boats were originally tied up, including dramatically stepping off the number of feet of space available between the boat on the end and the boat on the inside forward of the fueling dock to indicate there was 36' feet of space. What a clown! And then he starts pulling my bow in when I am already at an angle and at the mercy of the wind and current. When I got into extremis, unlike you, I was not free. He was still tugging my bow in and acting like a pivot point to keep the boat from turning either way. I had to yell at him to let the sob loose! I think, at that point, he was actually trying to pull me away from my approach to the rocks but all he did was succeed in preventing my escape. Thanks for your reassurance that I am not the only one to get caught there. It is narrow, as you indicate, and much more hazardous than it looks. And then there was the time I wrapped the anchor chain from a vertically standing mushroom anchor buoy around both screws while I was leaving the Tenants Harbor common pier, only about one and one half feet off the pier, leaving my boat dead in the water and at the mercy of the wind. What the hell they had a mushroom anchor there for is beyond me. There too was a gusting wind blowing me, only this time blowing my boat back onto the fueling dock, and boat's tied up, at Cod's End. Another hairy adventure. Isn't boating fun? [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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