Jeanneau SUN ODYSSEY 45DS Owner's Manual - Deck
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MOORING LINES
A sufficient number of mooring lines suitably sized and suitable for the environment
shall be on board for mooring your boat.
- Always manoeuvre your boat using the engine.
- Make allowance for the current and wind when you handle your boat.
- Protect your boat to the highest degree with suitably sized fenders.
- Always keep the mooring ropes unfouled and stored away.
- Handle your boat at a reduced speed.
- Always pass the mooring rope through the fairlead intended for this purpose.
AFTER MOORING
- Protect the mooring lines against chafing with plastic sleeves.
- Make allowance for the variations in tides if need be.
TOWING
TOWING BOAT
- Tow another boat at a reduced speed and as smoothly as you can.
- Pay particular attention when you throw or catch the towing rope (it may foul on the
propeller).
Note: The stability may be reduced when you tow a boat.
TOWED BOAT
- Keep steering your boat and see to it that you stay in the wake of the towing boat.
- Inappropriate towing can damage your vessel, do not tow at more than 6 knots.
DANGER
- Don't try to stop the boat with your foot, your hand or a boat hook.
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