Sven
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You come in to the dock, under control, with no problems ...
Some helpful person on the dock decides to help and grabs the boat by one of the boat handles, known as stanchions, and puts their full weight into pushing it, or almost as bad, starts pulling a lifeline as hard as he can.
Likewise, a shore boat pulls up next to your lifeline gate and uses the "boat handle" to stop the motion of the 2,000 lb shore boat.
What do you do ? You can't tell the idiot that they are not "boat handles" and to only grab the boat by the gunnel or the base of the stanchion ... that would be rude.
Put 50 pounds of lateral load on the top of a 20" stanchion, that's 1000 pounds of load on the bolts 1" from the base, 500 pulling up and 500 pushing down.
Lifelines are supposed to save your life when you might otherwise fall overboard. They are not boat handles or fender hangers or back rests or hand rails.
I'll feel better when I know how to make people stop abusing the life support equipment without me seeming awfully rude in the process.
-Sven
Some helpful person on the dock decides to help and grabs the boat by one of the boat handles, known as stanchions, and puts their full weight into pushing it, or almost as bad, starts pulling a lifeline as hard as he can.
Likewise, a shore boat pulls up next to your lifeline gate and uses the "boat handle" to stop the motion of the 2,000 lb shore boat.
What do you do ? You can't tell the idiot that they are not "boat handles" and to only grab the boat by the gunnel or the base of the stanchion ... that would be rude.
Put 50 pounds of lateral load on the top of a 20" stanchion, that's 1000 pounds of load on the bolts 1" from the base, 500 pulling up and 500 pushing down.
Lifelines are supposed to save your life when you might otherwise fall overboard. They are not boat handles or fender hangers or back rests or hand rails.
I'll feel better when I know how to make people stop abusing the life support equipment without me seeming awfully rude in the process.
-Sven