Hi folks, new here and looking at a 16 Cruiser... but I am totally perplexed and hope someone can help. I am a big guy, thinking I am not getting through the front hatch (well I might get halfway through but I will need the fire department to extract me), and if I walk around the gunnel, I suspect the the boat will turtle. So tell me, how do you set the anchor, or tie up in a slip if those two options mentioned above are out? I am totally perplexed. Thanks in advance!
Anchoring/Mooring - HELP!
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starcrafttom
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On tying to the dock I was going to say just use or install mid cleats but then I saw you are in Baltimore . I take it you are using the stern tie and pilling with half length finger piers? I lived there in my early teens and my job on dads Christ craft 28 was to go forward and toss the rope over the pilling's. We came up with a method were we tossed the loops over the poles and then backed up to the dock, after tying the stern to the dock we would go to the front hatch and just reach out enough to tighten up the ropes. You could run your front lines from the pilings to the front cleats then back to the side of the cabin. That way the anchor point would be at the bow ( at the cleats) but you pull the slack and tie it off at the back wall of the cabin. You might even want to use a SS ring at the cleats to pass the rope thru. Interesting problem, should be fun to solve. Sure glad that we have the right type of docks on the west coast!!
Wandering Sagebrush
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Big Bill":119jm14k said:
Check in with Mark (use name Marco Flamingo). He devised a very slick way to anchor his 16.
Marco Flamingo
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My anchoring system was a little complex to install, but it has paid for itself many times over. I often singlehand and don't want to go out on the foredeck. Pictures are in my photo folder under ground tackle. The only thing I wish I had was the "dip and dump" style of bow pulpit. Launching and retrieving from the cockpit would be even easier with my system. I still have to go on the foredeck sometimes, and if I didn't have a bow rail I would certainly buy one.
I would think that you would have to weigh more than 900 lbs. and hang out over the side deck as far as possible to get the 16 to turn over. I heard that the smallest Bayliner with a flying bridge (now discontinued) could turn turtle if four passengers on the bridge looked over the same side. So maybe four passengers out on one side deck of a CD 16 hanging out over the water could do it.
The CD 16 took some time to get used to. Walk from one side to the other and the boat rocks? What's up with that? Power through some chop and you can hear it slapping through the hull? Stand up and bump your head? Okay, it's a 16 foot boat (actually 15' 10"). Tippy comes with the territory.
The positives can make up for it, at least in my case. I got 20.7 miles per gallon towing 1,500 miles back from Lake Powell via Lake Yellowstone this fall with a 4 cyl. Hyundai. I hardly notice that I'm towing. For the year, I logged over 600 miles in the boat at 6.5 mpg. I spent +25 nights at anchor (no electrical hookups, marina fees, barking dogs, country western music, generators, etc.). Gone aground? Walk to the other side of the boat and push yourself off with the boat hook.
Every boat is a compromise.
Mark
I would think that you would have to weigh more than 900 lbs. and hang out over the side deck as far as possible to get the 16 to turn over. I heard that the smallest Bayliner with a flying bridge (now discontinued) could turn turtle if four passengers on the bridge looked over the same side. So maybe four passengers out on one side deck of a CD 16 hanging out over the water could do it.
The CD 16 took some time to get used to. Walk from one side to the other and the boat rocks? What's up with that? Power through some chop and you can hear it slapping through the hull? Stand up and bump your head? Okay, it's a 16 foot boat (actually 15' 10"). Tippy comes with the territory.
The positives can make up for it, at least in my case. I got 20.7 miles per gallon towing 1,500 miles back from Lake Powell via Lake Yellowstone this fall with a 4 cyl. Hyundai. I hardly notice that I'm towing. For the year, I logged over 600 miles in the boat at 6.5 mpg. I spent +25 nights at anchor (no electrical hookups, marina fees, barking dogs, country western music, generators, etc.). Gone aground? Walk to the other side of the boat and push yourself off with the boat hook.
Every boat is a compromise.
Mark
Thanks to all for getting back to me. Huge help. Yeah the problem is the bow is not easily accessed. To parallel dock is easy, but I see problems when docking where you pull/back into a slip with a finger pier or dropping a hook. I did find a video that gave me some ideas on anchoring, it is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b4G0IlWwcE
Mark - I really appreciate the last paragraph of your post, we are in sync.
Best to all, Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b4G0IlWwcE
Mark - I really appreciate the last paragraph of your post, we are in sync.
Best to all, Bill