Francois Guillet, 68, caught my bow line and tied my boat to his steel-hulled work boat.
I can do a bow line and tie my laces up with one hand.
Circling into the marina, I consulted my cheat sheet again: Pull gas plug, slow way down, curve into slip just as engine dies (yes!), grab line on dock and wrap around cleat at stern, climb onto dock with bow line.
Sabas persuaded me to take a swim, so I stripped to my bathing suit and had him hold my bow line so my boat would not be pulled away by the current.
The crew of the ferry, which is operated by SeaStreak America, had secured the bow line when smoke began billowing from the fan room, which draws hot air from the engine room, said Petty Officer Angel Patti of the Coast Guard.
Ensure you have a bow line with a bowline knot at the end attached to your mast step.
Take care to tie 2+ lines for safety when docking (stern line and bow line) and for larger boats, two spring lines.
He assembled the music on the spot by playing and looping violin parts, with contrapuntal pizzicato patterns and bowed bass lines (lowered electronically).
Put on Sound Grammar, last year's Pulitzer prize-winning live album, and you can hear New York in the dive-bombing bowed bass lines, the clattering drums and the dark blue bursts of his saxophone.
So cast off your bow lines and explore, dream, and discover.'" --James Doti, premeritusemeritus and Donald Bren Distinguished Chair of Business and Economics, Chapman University.
The soundtrack to "Sex and the City" (New Line) bowed at No. 2 with 66,000.
