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OK guys, since I moved, I've finally found a new marina and booked a slip. It's a nice place on the Trent but there is a fairly strong current. I got a slip that I can dock with the bow into the current and my dock finger is on my port side as I requested due to my shore power and transom door are on the port side. Lots of room for docking and shoving off too.

I'll have 2 bow lines and 1 stern line since there is only 1 dock finger. Here's my question,,, with the current being fairly strong, should I leave my drives dead ahead, slightly to port or starboard? I've never moored in a current before. Just wondering what everyone else does in this situation.

John

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95 278 Vista,
And a lot of others.

Ontario, Canada

Where I live, there are very few slips, almost exclusively moorings in the river. Our current here is 3-5 knots, depending on water flow over Niagara Falls upstream. Anyways, folks in the few slips don't worry about drive/rudder position. On the moorings, its always slightly starboard. In theory, if the boat slips its mooring, the slight starboard angle while take the boat into the shoreline, instead of playing bumper boats with the other moorings and eventually floating out onto Lake Ontario.

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