How to Tie a Boat to a Floating Dock

[skiqsr]

Note this when securing at a floating dock. When the tide comes in the boat and dock go up. At a fixed dock longer ropes to cleats father apart should be used, allows the boat to float up and down but not out and in.

[nevillecottee]

I saw a boat hanging on its lines once. A passerby had undone the figure eights and redid them with locking hitches, as he had been taught. They jammed under load and could not be adjusted. The lines had to be cut.

[GuyBlondWithOutGod]

I think that a bigger issue here is the loose cleats at the bow. Implies poor backing when installed.