LINES & FENDERS GUIDELINES
LINES & FENDERS, PLEASE - Please check in with us to be sure your boat is properly "lined and fendered". It's serious business when the wind blows from the north.
Please read through these general line-and-fender guidelines for docking at Ladd’s Landing Marina:
Please read through these general line-and-fender guidelines for docking at Ladd’s Landing Marina:
- All boats should use at least 1/2” high-quality docklines and 8”x20” fenders
- Boats 25’ and over should use 5/8” docklines (if the cleats will allow) and 10”x26” fenders
- All boats should be tied with at least 2 bowlines & 2 stern sternlines (15’ to 20’ each) and 2 springlines (each at least equal to boat length).
- It’s also a good idea to have a few extra lines of each size, just in case you need them when the wind blows or when you’re at another marina.
- Docklines less than 12-15’ are just too short for any purpose, because they can’t be thrown when you’re coming into the dock - there isn’t enough length or weight to reach a person catching the line on the dock until the boat is already too close.
- We do not recommend leaving all of your lines tied to the dock when you head out onto the lake on your boat, expecting to just loop them all onto your boat's cleats as you return. First, lines should be regularly re-tied and secured on dock cleats to ensure that they are solidly tied. Second, lines do stretch as they are exposed to rain and stresses and thus the boat may not remain properly aligned by the lines in place. Third, you need lines on the boat with you to throw to a person on the dock as you pull into your slip.
- PLEASE NOTE: If there is a "loaner line" tied on your boat, often heavy maroon or teal lines added by the marina crew on windy days, please see us about purchasing an appropriate replacement line.