Comments for Boating Safety Tips, Tricks & Thoughts from Captnmike

Comment on Mountaineers Sailing Crew Class Resources – Spring 2012 by captnmike

captnmike — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:41:23 +0000

Thanks for sending the link on – hope your friend likes my site

Comment on Mountaineers Sailing Crew Class Resources – Spring 2012 by kcinaz

kcinaz — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:31:57 +0000

Thanks for you forum questions help. Your blog looks great and I’m forwarding your page to my Sailing friend in Canada. She would probably love to see your blog.

Comment on Don’t Drop the Cell-Phone by bhatmahesht

bhatmahesht — Fri, 10 May 2013 04:07:49 +0000

I do have the habit of dropping my phone and hopefully this will work for me

Comment on Free NOAA Charts! by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:17:14 +0000

This is a great idea! I find these chart downloads extremely useful and easy to obtain. Keep up the good work. Smooth sailing, Paul

Comment on Hello world! by captnmike

captnmike — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:06:08 +0000

Here is an update from the rainy Northwest – actually not raining today

Mike,

Official name in most English speaking countries is “sinker.”

But popular name is mooring block or, less commonly, mooring clump.

In Spanish, the word both official and popular is “muerto.”

Darrell

Darrell is a Sr. Researcher at the Coast Guard Museum in Seattle

Comment on Hello world! by captnmike

captnmike — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:09:33 +0000

My first thought is

Anchor or Anchor Block

But let me do a bit or research a bit later today

Comment on Hello world! by Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:43:01 +0000

Dear Captain Mike, I “fell” on your page looking for some technical terms (I’m an interpretor) and I am trying to find out how you call the concrete blocks that are situated under the water in a Marina to secure a vessel; I don’t mean to be cheeky but I would really appreciate your help (the whole text is about a marina and I would like to be accurate with the “jargon”. Thank you and have a lovely day. Sunny greetings from Spain. Jo

Comment on The U.S. Coast Guard Museum, Seattle, Washington by captnmike

captnmike — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:09:48 +0000

The people at the museum love what they do and like history – I have seen them give tours and answer questions several times when I was working on the article and their knowledge and love of history and the museum really shows

Glad you liked the collage – The collage is part of the new stuff in the stock make a Gallery thing – it was the only way I could show several pictures without having a big ugly box in the Post and having the big black box load all the pictures at once. I tried every display setting at least twice – wanted to not show the captions in the initial view and loading of the Post

Comment on The U.S. Coast Guard Museum, Seattle, Washington by timethief

timethief — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:47:40 +0000

One day my hubby and I will visit the Museum. It’s bound to be a fascinating visit.
P.S. I love the collage.

Comment on Tips on Tying Your Boat to the Dock by captnmike

captnmike — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:27:32 +0000

Glad the stopping strap worked – you are at least the second convert on S dock – Today S dock – Tomorrow the world

Adding the cleat is easy – but you need to have the marina add it for you, putting your own cleat (or any holes in the wood even I think) is against the rules (part of it is a liability issue, if you don’t put the cleat in correctly and then you move to another slip and the cleat comes loose for the next boat owner it would be a mess) – you just need to ask the marina to add it and pay for the cost, sorry I don’t remember the cost. I think this is the third cleat I have bought from Shilshole. You will need to meet with one of the maintenance people and show them where you want the cleat or make a very very clear sketch. I made a sketch and the office accepted it so I did not need to meet with the maintenance people.

Then a week or so later the cleat showed up like magic.

Comment on Tips on Tying Your Boat to the Dock by Alex Wetmore

Alex Wetmore — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:13:31 +0000

We tried the stopping strap for the first time yesterday and it worked really well. I’m keeping a hard dinghy on the dinghy rack at the end of my dock, and the difference between “too far” and “not far enough” when docking is about 1 foot (29′ boat in a 30′ slip). Your stopping strap works well.

Was Shilshole pretty open to adding that second cleat by the corner of the dock and the finger slip? That would be very helpful for my boat too.

I also like how you pass the loop through the eye of the cleat.

Comment on Free NOAA Charts! by captnmike

captnmike — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:03:14 +0000

You be welcome – glad this was useful – it is easier to have someone else do the cutting and scaling for you

Comment on Free NOAA Charts! by Alex Wetmore

Alex Wetmore — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:52:54 +0000

Thanks Mike! This is a great resource and much better than my old methods of trying to cut up and print NOAA charts.

-alex (just down the dock from you at Shilshole)

Comment on The U.S. Coast Guard Museum, Seattle, Washington by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:39:52 +0000

Thanks for posting. I have lived here for five years and did NOT know there was a USCG Museum here. I will visit soon. CAH

Comment on Visiting Canada With Your Boat by captnmike

captnmike — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:59:32 +0000

Nice pictures on your site

Comment on Visiting Canada With Your Boat by carlayvonne

carlayvonne — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:41:56 +0000

Hi there, nice blog. We are living in Holland on an old barge, but we can’t sail the seas. It’s a pity because I have family in Ottawa we would really like to sail your beautiful lakes.
By the way we never drink alcohol when we are sailing, but afterwords a nice mooring beer is nice.if you like you can see our barge on my blog, have a nice day. Carla

Comment on Boating Etiquette by cboatlady

cboatlady — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:17:14 +0000

Good article. I lived aboard for over ten years in the Bay Area, unfortuneately, My vessel was a work in progress while I worked on many other vessels during that time. It was always a treat to be invited to go sailing. I was always asked what the skipper might need for the day; food, supplies, etc… and yes, there are times when you are invited into someones home. Paying attention is priority, asking questions when in doubt, and respecting the space that you are in is also important. I know that when I have been invited to go sailing that I always stay to help clean up, washdown the vessel and put away sails…its just the right thing to do.

Comment on How to Tie Your Boat to a Dock that has a Bull Rail – Part 1 by cboatlady

cboatlady — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:03:09 +0000

I appreciate your article and I like the fact that you not only include a great description but that you have very good pics to go along with your descriptions…very helpful indeed!

Comment on How to Tie Your Boat to a Dock that has a Bull Rail – Part 2 by cboatlady

cboatlady — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:38:10 +0000

Thank you great article!

Comment on Captnmike by wanda4848

wanda4848 — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 06:24:52 +0000

You have a very good website with so much detailed information. .