how wide is your slip

[lisaann]

what is a typical margin on either side of the boat my slip is 22' wide for a 14'6" beam boat seems lost in the slip thou it is not long outer poles are ten feet back from the bow?

 

[Pascal]

Narrow slips are common here in SoFL.. My own slip is about 18' leaving aabout a foot on each side of my 53

I also have a couple of feet clearance in the slip for the 70 footer I run, a big improvement from our previous slip a couple of years ago where I had 6" total clearance. Couldn't even put a fender... Luckily It has a good rub rail

 

[hatteras4164]

41dc 14' beam 16' slip. Plenty of room.

 

[SeaEric]

IMO, A slip that is too wide is a PIA. 2 ft on each side is about max that I'd prefer.

 

[saltshaker]

About 2-4ft more than your beam is ideal. Mine is 19ft and the boat is 18ft. No way to put a fender out or keep the boat off the pilings. Makes docking a bit tricky as you need to be lined up perfectly to get into the slip. Good thing is once you get between the midship pilings there's no where for the boat to go.

 

[lisaann]

i agree with seaeric its a pain. the boat can wander and drift while putting lines on, but it is nice to stay off the poles. i backed in first time sunday it was windy so i need to expierment with a few techniques definiatly need to use the boat hook to retrieve lines.

 

[TROUBLE]

I am lucky, my slip is 18 feet wide and the boat is 14

Art

 

[egaito]

I've got 15' 6" for Misty's 14' beam. It's plenty of room to get in, but I don't have tides here (longer lines don't benefit me). Ang could tell you what we have in Miami. I think it's about 18, with a 15'10" beam. Wider might be nicer in a hurricane, but in normal conditions, too much space would make it difficult to manage dock lines left on the pilings.

 

[MikeP]

In our previous marina we had our 36ft Mainship in a 60 ft/18W slip for several months as we were looking for a 53MY. Looked decidedly odd but since the marina had floating docks, the boat was always cinched up against the dock so there was no issue with lines. I have to admit that as much as I like our covered slip at Piney, I miss those floating docks!

Here at Piney our slip is approx 17.5 wide which works fine with our 15 10 beam.

 

[holtcl]

I would say that lisaann needs a bigger boat to fill up that slip

Cheryl
Cinderella
1971 53 MY

 

[34Hatt]

i agree with seaeric its a pain. the boat can wander and drift while putting lines on, but it is nice to stay off the poles. i backed in first time sunday it was windy so i need to expierment with a few techniques definiatly need to use the boat hook to retrieve lines.

You should have such problems I have 8" each side. Boat has to be tied just perfect and always have to adjust for storms. Not to mention need to be dead on when coming in I have the tightest slip in the marina mainly because no one else lasted in it because the always had problems!

 

[lumina]

Hi All,

I'm with Eric, too much is a PTA, on the other hand 8" is way to tight for me. 34, you're a way better captain than I am, at 8 inches I'd be donking off the finger peer or pilings like a pinball.

Our YF has a beam of 14'9" and our slip is 18.5' wide. It works out well because the larger fenders fit comfortably, you can still access the hull if you need too, it doesn't drift to far in the wind when docking, there's room on the pilings (finger peer to port and pilings to stbd) for rub protection, compensates for tides etc.