powerskipper
Well-Known Member
There are various thing on the market to help you berth up.
The ones I find work are,
put an attractive lady/ guy on the bow holding a rope and people always appear to help even if the place seemed deserted before you approached the berth.
This is a fact, I have seen if often and have heard people in that category complain, they wanted to practise but did not want to seem rude by not letting them take the line.
put loads of fenders out, one every 2 feet around the boat should do, then everyone appears off boats close to where you are going to help, self preservation of their boat is normally the motivation.
use loads of bow thruster and shout a little normally something like, "get the ropes on fast or we crash".
see above for reasons why!
Call the marina office and say help, then watch the marina staff run down the pontoon and so does everyone else to be nosey, do make sure you use a lot of revving, out of gear best or shoot forwards a few feet in safe water or backward and this will hasten help.
can you add any more.?
The ones I find work are,
put an attractive lady/ guy on the bow holding a rope and people always appear to help even if the place seemed deserted before you approached the berth.
This is a fact, I have seen if often and have heard people in that category complain, they wanted to practise but did not want to seem rude by not letting them take the line.
put loads of fenders out, one every 2 feet around the boat should do, then everyone appears off boats close to where you are going to help, self preservation of their boat is normally the motivation.
use loads of bow thruster and shout a little normally something like, "get the ropes on fast or we crash".
see above for reasons why!
Call the marina office and say help, then watch the marina staff run down the pontoon and so does everyone else to be nosey, do make sure you use a lot of revving, out of gear best or shoot forwards a few feet in safe water or backward and this will hasten help.
can you add any more.?
examples of these characters wearing bikini's in south-east Asia (so I've been told 
), but I guess they would still work cheap in the UK 
.
