SECURING A MOORING when boating to CATALINA with Gary Larkins

An 11-minute tutorial by seasoned sailor GARY LARKINS on how secure a mooring when you and your boat arrive in CATALINA ISLAND'S Two Harbors Isthmus. This tutorial works for Catalina's harbor at AVALON also.

[@blefever219]

Good information Gary. One piece of advice that my Dad gave me. When you get the wand, grab the line and just dump the wand back in the water. I see it over and over again, people pick up the wand and then don't really know what to do with it and they fumble around with the wand when they should be putting the loop on the cleat and be walking the spreader line down the deck. It's cumbersome to try and find a place to lay it on deck and the lead weight at the bottom of the wand leaves marks on the deck.

[@Jonosdad]

Gary, thank you very much for your incisive program. It has been many years since I picked up a mooring and this was a good refresher.

[@theslumberingtraveler2328]

Thank You so much for this simple and AMAZING Instructions for a first timer.

[@TimMunyon]

Thank you Gary!

[@davidmaury827]

It's seven years later and this video has 24,142 views!

[@DearMajesty]

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[@mikebeatstsb7030]

Pardon...?

[@conradserrano5948]

Boats face out in Avalon.

[@briane173]

Isthmus Cove would be the same except that every afternoon the prevailing winds squeeze through the hills on either side of the isthmus and blows 18-20 kts by afternoon. Pretty much forces boats moored at Isthmus Cove to moor head-to-wind facing the beach. You go into 4th of July or Cherry Cove and those moorings all face away from the beach. Isthmus Cove is not my favorite place to moor at Catalina for the foregoing reason. Often beggars can't be choosers and if you gotta moor at Isthmus Cove, hopefully you can grab a can close in on the NW side of the harbor where you're up against the cliffs and higher hills, and that'll help shield you from the afternoon winds. Downside to that of course is that because of the high hills on that side you lose sunlight pretty quickly in the afternoons; BUT....there's really no such thing as "the perfect" mooring spot at Isthmus Cove -- not unless the pm winds are neutral or a Santa Ana is blowing.

[@DearMajesty]

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