My club is over 125 years old and is slow to change. We have several standard floating docks now but there are still a lot of these Med style moorings in the harbour. There is a mooring anchored about 10 ~ 15 feet further from the harbour wall than the length of the boat to tie the stern lines to and you tie the bow off to the wall. You have to climb over the pulpit to get on the boat. Just off the bow of the mini 12 is one of these moorings. The next mooring over, on the right side of the picture, has a messenger line from the mooring float to the harbour wall which makes it easier to guide the boat in. The bigger boat astern of the mini 12 has added a bigger float with a tree on it to hang the stern lines on which keeps them out of the water so they don't get slimy but also makes it easier to grab them without a boat hook. The picture at the bottom was taken in 2005 before we started adding floating docks. All of the little white dots behind the boats are the mooring buoys.