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The app · 01Harbour Stations

The manoeuvre, before the moment.

Harbour Stations is where the plan is made. Pick the berth and which side she lies, choose the boat, rig the lines, decide who goes ashore and in what order the ropes go on. Everything the crew needs to hear before the engine is started is decided here, on the iPad, at the kitchen table.

1234 PONTOON · CLEATS AT 6 MBOW 1 · bow line2 · stern line3 · bow spring4 · stern springEach rope to a cleat that can take it, in the order it goes on.
Fig. 02 — Lying alongside: four lines, in the order they go on
What you do hereFour decisions
01The berthAlongside, box between piles, stern-to, or rafted up. Which side she lies, and how much room is astern.
02The boatFrom the library or your own build — length, draught, windage, the drive she has and how she behaves in reverse.
03The linesBow line, stern line, springs. Each rope to a fitting: pick the cleat, the app draws the rope, and tells you when it leads nowhere useful.
04The peopleWho steps ashore, who takes which line, and the order it all happens in — the briefing, written down.
From the appIn development
A rope led to a cleat
A rope to a cleat — every fitting in reach ringed, the one under your thumb picked out.
  • —Every fitting within reach is ringed, so a line can only be led somewhere it could actually go.
  • —The plan is a file: save it, send it, open it on the phone at the pontoon.
  • —Any harbour from the commons can be the berth — or your own, drawn in the editor.

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No registration when it does — the app is a PWA: load it once and it works offline.