line as well. Brendon kicks her stern to port away from our side of a double slip when put in reverse. With out controlling both bow and stern, one of them is going to blow down on our boat neighbor. We approach at a pretty good clip because of the usually strong afternoon wind which blow us off our dock towards our neighbor. I put it in reverse and stop as close to the dock as I can get right next to the middle dock cleat. A short midship line is attached to the dock cleat with as little slack as possible. That way, as the boat is blown off the dock, one end or the other will contact the dock with very little momentum.