The purpose of this event is to evaluate the teams’ ability to accurately throw a heaving line at a stationary, floating, fence-like target.

1. The floating target is designed to sang the heaving line so that a team member, in a small inflatable dinghy, will then paddle to the target, remove the heaving line, and be pulled back to the throwing position by his/her teammates.
2. The dinghy team member will be properly attired in the necessary PPE, (flotation and a helmet) before boarding the boat.
3. Each team will be allowed five minutes of practice time.
4. The floating target will have scoring sections of 10, 20 and 30 points. Heaving lines that miss the target or fail to stay attached to the target for manual release, will not receive a point score.
5. The team member in the dinghy is not permitted to depart the dock until the heaving line has been thrown and is attached to the target.
6. The line thrower is not permitted to throw the heaving line until the dinghy is back in contact with and alongside the dock.
7. Team members are permitted to rotate through the line throwing and dinghy positions but this is not mandatory.
8. The time allotted for this exercise is 15 minutes. At the end of the exercise, the total points accumulated by each team will be tabulated.

Scoring: Team with the best overall score will be awarded: