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        <![CDATA[ Has anyone ever heard of a sweet spot?  It is supposed to be that spot on the boat, used when docking, so that when you attach a spring line to that spot the boat will move ahead, parallel to the dock, coming closer to the dock, neither stern or bow in.
            
            I use the midship cleat for the spring line, but that results in pulling the bow in.  If I knew the spot, I could atach a line to the midship cleat, run it through an extra genoa car (just to creat the angle) and stop... ]]>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I haven't heard it called that but I have a Scheaffer cleat that slides on the rail on the coaming we use for aft spring lines.  It's about even with the primary winch and seems to work about as you describe if we tie the line to the dock about even with the furthest aft portion of the transom.  When getting ready to leave the dock we can put the drive in forward at about 1200 rpm and hold it in place while all the other lines are taken in.  Unless the wind is blowing... unless there is... ]]></description>

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            I use the midship cleat for the spring line, but that results in pulling the bow in.  If I knew the spot, I could atach a line to the midship cleat, run it through an extra genoa car (just to creat the angle)... ]]></description>

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