When the wind blows. Use more ropes.

More on our mooring line experiments. 

We were getting pounded onto the finger berth by the strong prevailing winds here in Brest. Biscay is just out there so no surprise I suppose. 

Our yacht was blown so far over that our toe rail took a scraping. Some other yachts fared far worse. One sustained quite bad hull and toe rail damage and another had a porthole smashed on a pontoon cleat. Flattened and burst fenders a plenty. 

To combat this, we rigged 2 extra lines. One from the bow to the cleat on the finger berth nearest our stern. The other from our biggest stern winch to the main pontoon ahead of us. 

The 2 extra lines have to be tight. Especially the one on the winch as that holds the boat off the finger berth. The other line stops the boat going too far forward. The only other tweak was that the starboard stern line was shortened, so that the winched line didn't pull us too far out and encroach onto our neighbours space. 

This has been a fantastic success. Even when the wind is blowing its worse, the starboard fenders just kiss the finger berth.