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 What
About Those Bull Rails Instead of Cleats Along the Inside
Passage?
by Linda Lewis & Dave
Parker – M/V Royal Sounder
We all know how to use cleats
in the Puget Sound area. But what about when we cruise
the Inside Passage to BC and beyond? What you’ll
find is Bull Rails. No cleats. Just long pieces of timber
on the dock called Bull Rails. The Bull Rails require
you to get off the boat, thread the line under the rail,
then over the rail to tie off or run back to the boat.
OK most of the time. But it can be a real problem when
the currents are running, the wind is blowing, or the
helm is making mistakes – or all of the above.
There is help for those
times. We call it “The Hook”. It is a device
(a line with a hook) that can be thrown from the boat
onto the dock, then drug back until it hooks the Bull
Rail. Voila! You’re attached to the dock. It’s
a life-saver in tough docking situations. We highly recommend
having it onboard.
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Throw
it onto
the dock. |
Pull it onto
the bull rail. |
You're connected
to the bull rail. |
For purchase information,
contact:
Interlock, LLC – 865 Lakispell Dr – La Conner,
WA 98257
Phone: 360-466-7408; Email: EZDOCKER@aol.com
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