Costa Rica Yacht Club

The club has no slips like at many stateside yacht club or marinas.
It is located on a swift-current river, with up to 13 feet of tidal range, thus oscillating currents (sometimes as swift as 4-5 knots) are not conducive to the structural needs of slips. So the club has moorings , all are bow and stern and many are actually platform moorings, where a section of floating dock about 8.5 * 28 feet , rimmed with stout wooden cleats, is moored fore and aft parallel to the river flow, enabling two boats to tie up to it, parallel to the river axis, one boat on each side of the platform-exacly like being tied to a “side-tie” in a marina.