Boat Docking

Purchase Boat Docking.

This book provides invaluable information, not available elsewhere. Its cost is far, far below the price of a boat (or boat repairs!), or boat maintenance, fuel or rigging. It will help you to feel more comfortable docking your boat, and so you will use your boat more, getting more enjoyment from the time, effort and money invested in your vessel.
Check further information on how to order Boat Docking.

Read selections from Boat Docking.

From the book:

1. the Introduction, and
2. the Conclusion.
3. [Also, meet the author, and
4. check Boat Docking’s endorsements,
5. read about the book, or
6. return to the home page,
7. or, ponder some of the questions which the book answers, and also some close quarters conundrums (conundra?) sent in by boaters-at-large.]

Read some of the author’s other boating writings.

They include:

1. My Home Dock, and
2. Wind.
3. Two of my more popular articles (doubtless because they concern a common and difficult close quarters conundrum):
   • Sternway
   • Stern To
4. I have collected some of my non-docking boating thoughts on these subjects, all accessible here:
   • Privilege and Burden - my own rant about why to abandon the term "right of way" when discussing nautical collision avoidance - with copious reference to the Navigation Rules. (Note: if you're only going to read one thing while here, please make it Privilege and Burden!)
   • Mushing - my personal diatribe against the huge and unnecessary wakes produced by planing hulls going too slowly!
     • (includes an older article about wake management along with one on how to anchor in crowded conditions.)
   • Boat Lists - a small selection of checklists which Charles has found useful in his own boating.
   • Sound Signals - a short reference of the signals boats can and should sound to each other on the water.
   • Boat Winds - describes the MAFOR codes and also some basic visual indicators of wind speed.
   • Boater Licencing - why I support it.

Explore other online boating resources.

There are many other boating resources on the Boat Docking links page.