painters

[gert]

Should a 16' double ender with a rudder get a painter on both ends?

[ken mcclure]

Nah. One should do it. I would think that someone could paint the whole thing in less than a day.

What?

Oh.

Never mind.

[Stephen]

I would put a painter on the bow and then attach a stern line (when you need it) to something inside the boat, like a stringer or something. I figure the less holes you drill into your boat the better.

[Jerry Sousa]

Be damned if I know. It's just this, that all the post's were" red flagged" when I logged on except this one- so I had to make amends.

[TomRobb]

Or you could put cleats fore & aft to put your dock lines where ever it's handy at the time.


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[John R Smith]

Tom

you had to edit a one-line message TWICE?



John

[Chadd Hamilton]

Don't mind me asking, but what is a 'painter'?

[Andrew]

It's a leash for you boat.

[Ian McColgin]

I put one at each end of Leeward since you never know which way you'll squeeze and wriggle into a dock and even lieing alongside it's nice to have bow and stern lines routinely available anyway

I also have a bit of line through the seat riser just abaft amidships ready as either spring or breast as the case may be. This is long enough to act as a tow line when I come across a deflatable with an empty gas tank . . .

Tibbotts (Grana's dink) has a splice on painter at the bow and a line splice around each corner of the transom. This leaves lines permanently ready as a hoisting bridle, as well as lines secure for landing, towing, rescue, and whatever.

[TomRobb]

John, must you point out my shame

It took twice to spell fore correctly. Is that anal or what The first correction didn't seem to take so I did it again.... Spelling is not my forte. Obviously.

[Mike Field]

Tom, if you ever have to do it again, then in your little "edit" window scroll down to the bottom of your new post and you'll see there the first "[This message has been edited by,,,,]" which was inserted automatically on the first edit. Delete that line before you press Submit to send off your new post. It'll be replaced by a new one, so people will always know it's been edited. But by doing this each time you can edit fifty times if you want, but still only have the tell-tale line appear once. (I speak from experience,,,,,)

So horrible picky Cornishmen in pointy gnomish hats will leave you alone in future.

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[J. Dillon]

I'm for reinstating the spell check. Did I spell reinstating correctly ? : confused

JD

[Mike Field]

Do as I say, Tom, not as I do.

JohnR, don't you dare say it.

[John B]

2 are very useful. ( I find )

[Mike Field]

Okay. I agree with JohnB. Yet again.

[John B]

Well actual,.... I have 3 on the black pig... but thats a left over from the bad old days when we used to raft it up alongside and shove Waione around with the 2 hp mariner.
The way it worked was 2 painters on the bow, 1 as a spring and 1 as a breast line and the aft line off the transom as another breast line. If you are ever towing anywhere 2 painters on the bow pretty well stops the tow ee from surging up and gooseing the tow er. Oh yes. what good things they are.

[John R Smith]

Just biting my tongue, Mike, biting my tongue . . .

[doorstop]

unless youse are talking about the stringy thingy on the pointy ended part, I would use a spraygun!

[Mirelle]

Minn, 9ft tender, has a painter from a ring bolt in the stem externally in the forefoot for towing and another ringbolt in the transom - this is for picking her up with a couple of halyards and turning her over into her deck chocks.

Piglet, 16ft, inboard diesel and standing gaff rig, has a painter from an internal ringbolt on the stem but because she spends a lot of time going alongside other boats and piers she also has a system that I copied from another local working launch - there are four big cleats screwed horizontally inside the gunwale, one at each bow and one at each quarter. Each cleat has a hole through it and a short rope with a stopper knot is rove through that upwards through the cleat; it is now the work of a moment to make fast alongside single handed, tow alongside, etc., by taking the rope round whatever and back to its cleat.

So that makes five painters, I suppose!

[Chris Coose]

Are you going to tie both ends regularly?

I think that is a reasonable question to ask back. And if you answer yes, put on another rope. If you answer no, you won't have an item on board that will be getting in the way.

[gert]

Thank-you all.
This place never ceases to amaze me, ask a seemingly simple question...
I think I'll go with two; if i need it, great if not, ces't la vi.

[Suprcargo]

Am I the only one that would rig a painter around the inboard side of the foreward most thwart with a proper toggle ?? A painter on a daughter vessel that is launched from a Mother vsl while underway, is rigged so that the painter can be released under load.. As the daughter vessel sheers away....pulling the toggle with minimal force will release the painter... the painter stays on the mother vessel...Rgds, John

[Jeff Kelety]

I'm still laughing at kwmcclure's clever pun. But in between giggles I'll share that on my 11' dinghy, in addition to the painter, I have a short line aft on both port and starboard lashed around the thwart just 'cause I never know what side of the dink I will be tying up on. Tacky, perhaps, but very handy. Now back to laughing about "someone could paint the whole thing in less than a day." <g>

jgk