warping

[SanderO]

I've warped my boat when it was in water winter storage and I wanted to change from a port side bow in to to a starboard side to stern in.

It involves some real long lines and calm winds so that the boat doesn't get taken by the wind.

Here is how I do it. Boat is port side to bow in I tie new lies which will be on starboard cleats for when I finish the warp. I tie a long line to the starboard midship cleat lead it outside and around the stern and back to the dock. I take the starboard stern line to the dock as well. It has to be quite long too.

I then release the dock likes and use the port bow line to walk the bow alond the dock and get the boat out of the slip. I toss the port bow line aboard. I am holding the starboard mid ship line and the starboard stern lines. I pull on the mid ship line and the stern line and this causes the stern to turn and the boat to turn so that the bow first point to what was the starboard side of the slip and then as I continue the bow swings all the way round and the stern faces into the slip and the bow is pointing opposite.

Now you use the starboard mid ship line and walk the boat back into the slip and secure it to a midway cleat on the dock and take the stern line to the a cleat at the inside of the slip. The mid ship line can be used to stop the boat from making way and crashing into the dock. Grab the waiting starboard bow line and make it fast at the cleat at the end of the finger and the boat is now been turned around. Adjust the lines and add the springs.

Don't forget to set up fenders for the new side to be against the finger before you do the warp.

Current is like wind. If you have a lot it can make this very difficult.

Don't let go of the lines until they are secure and make sure the dink is handy in case you need to get on board etc.

jef
sv shiva

[sailaway21]

Sailingdog is correct in that most sailboats are woefully under-cleated/chocked for even securing alongside let alone using the lines as a valuable manoeuvering tool. All the ideas in the world will not work if you do not have a deck fixture in the proper place to "bend her around". Easy afternoon project to upgrade, and they look nice with a teak base under them.

[sailingdog]

Sailaway-

BTW, as one of my spring projects earlier this year, I removed all the bow ground tackle and such and replaced them with new ones... went from a single 6" cleat and 4" chocks to a manual windlass, bow roller, two 10" cleats and 6" chocks with rubstrakes. Feel much better about tying up and anchoring out now.

[sailaway21]

Dog,
Coincidently i am doing the same. i've spent more time than I'd like to consider on placement of cleats, for instance, so as to best serve multiple purposes. I did a lot of setting them, and chocks, on the deck and leaving them in postion for a few days while I thought about the lead of the lines. here's hoping I have not overlooked much as I finally went to drilling.(G)

We're probably both the type that spend way too much time, and delight, in surveying ways to make the boat better while subtly criticizing the desingners for not being omniscient. (G)