Jeanneau MERRY FISHER 755, Owner'S Manual

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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.
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
- Wear your life jacket.
- In heavy weather, wear your safety harness and fasten yourself to the
boat.
- When at sea close the guardrail side-opening or openings.
- Do not try to stop the boat using a boat hook or your foot, your hand or
any other part of the body.
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