Better the bow mooring! Word of Lele Panzeri (who explains why).

What if we were wrong? What if the bow berth was better than the stern berth? Lele Panzeri, a well-known advertising creative and inveterate sailor (by the way, he is organizing creative sailing courses for September and October on his boat), after careful study has come to this very thesis. Let him explain why.

Is bow or stern mooring better?

At first I used to always moor aft as I saw everyone else do. Then I was in France with the boat I had and I saw almost all of them moored bow.

C’est bizarre! So I began to think about these two possible options. And I came to the conclusion that the bow mooring is far more convenient, and below I enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of this solution, in my opinion.

The advantages of bow mooring

• It is easier to slip into the berth in forward gear than in reverse.
• The bow of the boat, especially if you have good momentum, comes much closer to the dock.
• Two mooring lines are enough. The right one I put in the right fairlead and secure it to the left bollard, and the left one–left fairlead and right bollard. The two lines cross over and also act as a “spring.” By doing this, the lines don’t have much angle and the annoying squeaking that keeps you awake at night almost completely disappears. You can no longer open the anchor shaft cover? But what the hell is the anchor for when you are at the dock? Who knows.
• Those who pass by in the dock don’t look at you in the house. You can walk around in your underwear or even naked.
• If you have two traps when you secure them and they stay “wide” allowing you to string them with winches and allowing you to fish for bream. If you only have one trappe you have to do a “whisker” which is pretty easy anyway.
• When you want to get out of the berth the rudder blade and the propeller are already pretty much out–and then by standing at the helm you can see better if someone is passing by.
• Thanks to the rudder blade getting out of the berth in a crosswind makes the stern drift much less, and the boat for the first few meters goes away nice and straight in reverse.
• You can file away the catwalk that is usually uncomfortable, heavy, cumbersome and every time puts me in fear that it will break or move. Spluf!
• Your friend who takes the tow with the half sailor does it from the bow and does not get in your way of the engine throttle.
• When your guests come aboard with their bags pile them on the bow and not in the cockpit where they are a nuisance. Ditto when they leave.

The disadvantages of bow mooring

• You have to have a longer 220 power cord since the boat’s outlet is usually at the stern.
• You have to have someone on the bow to tell you the distance to the dock when you arrive, but usually someone is always there.
• It is more uncomfortable to get on and off, but if you have the “open” pulpit at the front, it is not so bad. Besides, by definition, the sailboat is an uncomfortable place. One more inconvenience what difference does it make?

In conclusion

Bow mooring all my life.

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That then, when you go down to the dock, the boat seen from the bow is much more beautiful than seen from the stern.

Or is it?

Your Uncle Lele