what is tendering and docking

[sm76]

I am new at this and I keep reading these terms. I know they are when you are in port but what do they mean. :eek:

[Druke I]

Docking - tied up at pier or wharf, walk off.

 

Tendering - at anchor, riding in lifeboats/tender to shore.

[cruisin921]

Tendering is going ashore on a boat because the water is too shallow for the ship. It is usually one of the life boats from the ship.

Docking is when the ship is actually able to dock at the pier and the passengers can walk right off the ship onto the pier. Hope that helps.:)

[ladylawyer]

Docking means the ship parks at the pier and you walk off a gangway to land. Tendering means that the ship anchors off shore and a smaller boat (sometimes the ship's lifeboat) takes you onto shore, a group at a time.

[ladylawyer]

Tendering is going ashore on a boat because the water is too shallow for the ship. It is usually one of the life boats from the ship.

Docking is when the ship is actually able to dock at the pier and the passengers can walk right off the ship onto the pier. Hope that helps.:)

 

Sometimes you have to tender because there are several ships in Port at the same time and the dock can accommodate only 1 or 2. THis happened a couple of times, in Alaska. Fortunately, we were the dockers, not the tenderers. :p

[TEXASMUNK]

ships use contracted tenders that usually hold hundreds or their larger life boats taht hold 150+ so it is not like a rowboat.

[sm76]

Thank you, now I understand:D