Boat on land

[bowler]

No harm done = success in my book. Go easy on yourself!

 

[Bouba]

No harm done = success in my book. Go easy on yourself!

That’s how I look at it.
I was watching a YouTube video and this boat was filmed trying to get into its berth….and he tried over and over until he eventually got in…and the comments from people was incredibly harsh. But my opinion was that he never once hit another boat or hurt his own boat…I would welcome him as a neighbor any day of the week rather than all those who crash land on their first attempt.
But it’s the crowd…always thinking that they can do better that get to you.
Still I didn’t have time to dwell, the wife put me straight to work assembling flat pack furniture

 

[oldgit]

Helped organise a overnight trip into a local marina with a few other boats last weekend for club XMAS cruise.
Been in there umpteen times via its tidal lock with varying degrees of success, on one occassion doing a perfect 180 degree on entry.
If the wife had got a turn when instructed this would not have happened.

H&S Passage plan.
Always print out a little laminated guide mainly for the newbies, the regulars just chuck the sheets in the bin.
Went into some detail about the fact the lock is far easier to get into at HW or LW due to low tidal flow past the outer gates.
This was repeated verbally at the skippers meeting previous evening.
What could possibly go wrong.
Called the lock office on Ch80 and they said what side do you want ? in we go.
On entry every which way but where we needed to be and after much opposite prop direction, a lot of back and forth and added bowthruster we got in unscathed.
On tying up we did hear a loud thud as the next club boat came in.
When sheepishly going into the lock office to pay up did apologise for the interesting method of arrival, his most welcome comment.............
That we were the least worst he had seen that morning.

Somebody else having another go.

 

[Alicatt]

That’s how I look at it.
I was watching a YouTube video and this boat was filmed trying to get into its berth….and he tried over and over until he eventually got in…and the comments from people was incredibly harsh. But my opinion was that he never once hit another boat or hurt his own boat…I would welcome him as a neighbor any day of the week rather than all those who crash land on their first attempt.
But it’s the crowd…always thinking that they can do better that get to you.
Still I didn’t have time to dwell, the wife put me straight to work assembling flat pack furniture

It's the sometimes un-helpful comments from those experienced sailors on shore that have different dynamics on their boats compared with the dynamics on your own boat.
There were only 2 boats in our marina that have twin engines, mine and the other one that has not been used in many years, and has now gone.
The canal is almost 20m wide so it is easy to turn my 11.8m boat 180° at my berth and slip alongside, but no, shouts of what are you doing, and lots of panic on shore from the onlooking skippers as I bring the boat gently onto the berth between two other boats. Now I can almost touch the boat behind and in front of mine, there is about 1.5m gap between the boats.
Now that they know I can actually berth my boat they don't bother with trying to give instructions from the shore which makes for a much calmer time of it. No thrusters on Hunter but I do admit a bow thruster could be helpful at times.

 

[Mr Googler]

Did they have a diver flag out?

 

[Bouba]

Did they have a diver flag out?

Not that I saw....but there was an area cordoned off....which I now realize why. Still, can’t upset them...he’s the capitainerie diver...the man who gets you out of trouble if the slime line wraps around your prop...so not a man to upset

 

[Bouba]

So where am I…..

 

[benjenbav]

The wife was having some communication issues (she’s fluent so no blame there)…but I wanted a boat on hand to help in that last part where there’s not a spare inch and it’s all concrete.
So I was expecting the crane operators boat…the one he showed us earlier in the week when we discussed it…instead the capitainerie boat showed up at my berth…it was way windier than the 5mph XCWeather.com said it was….so I followed the capitainerie boat all the way to the take out…and all was fine.
We get close to the take and the capitainerie park their boat !
That’s when it went wrong
First the boat spun in the wind…I eventually got under control…and got closer…but I was still getting blown and stern wasn’t lining up…and I was now being yelled at from all sides !
But I just couldn’t get the fine manoeuvre to line up perfectly…and every adjustment I made made it worse…the guy on the yacht in front thought I was too close and people behind were vigorously gesticulating…and I didn’t know why because reversing and repeating was my go to move…
Eventually the crane operator got in his boat and nudged me over and all was good…never hit or touched anything.
So all in all extremely embarrassing and shameful in front of the entire staff of the port.
It wasn’t until I was safely on land and walking around that I realised that those people right behind me who were yelling at me…had a diver in the water

Must’ve made the diver think you were manoeuvring to try to make sure of finishing the job off. Fair makes the blood run cold reading it.

Unbelievable that the capitainerie allowed that to go on.

 

[Bouba]

Must’ve made the diver think you were manoeuvring to try to make sure of finishing the job off. Fair makes the blood run cold reading it.

Unbelievable that the capitainerie allowed that to go on.

Not my worst encounter…. I was returning to my berth couple of years back, in our very narrow channel which is also very shallow…some places only a foot of water beneath the keel…a diver popped up a couple of feet in front of me
I slammed on the brakes ! But he’s lucky I even saw him because I mostly look straight ahead for oncoming catamarans…it was a fisherman in dive suit but free diving…there wouldn’t have been enough water under me to survive assuming he had the negative buoyancy to lay completely flat on the seabed.
That one gave me nightmares

 

[Alicatt]

We used to go out diving in my little dory, depending on availability we took along various others to be the boatman while the two of us dived. This day we had a novice diver along with us to act as boatman and we would do a second shallower dive with him to help build his experience.
As a boatman he was dangerous as my friend and I went down to about 20m, we could hear him zoom across the ceiling 75hp Johnson making lovely bubbly streaks across the water, it was a concern as we ascended from the depths hearing and seeing this potential meat blender criss-crossing above us, we had our surface marker buoys inflated and on the surface and still the boat was making rounds and crossing over where we were ascending. The two of us sitting about 3m down almost decided to swim for the shore instead and get out there, but the lad finally seen our markers, thankfully the boat stopped before we started that option to head for the shore.
The lad got a severe talking to and I never let him near the helm again, he also did not get his dive in that day as we had wasted a good bit more air than we had planned and there was not enough for a second dive with a decent reserve.

 

[billskip]

So where am I…

Lost in France....

 

[Bouba]

Lost in France....

Always

 

[Fr J Hackett]

That's a tight lift out dock.

 

[Bouba]

That's a tight lift out dock.

Exactly, not an inch to spare.....and the unforgiving concrete edges only have minimal protection....so in my mind, if I wasn’t exactly at ninety degrees it wouldn’t end well.
I’ve done it before without issue....but my thrusters were working. People don’t appreciate how a short high sided single engine boat behaves when even a gentle wind gets you at the wrong angle

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Exactly, not an inch to spare.....and the unforgiving concrete edges only have minimal protection....so in my mind, if I wasn’t exactly at ninety degrees it wouldn’t end well.
I’ve done it before without issue....but my thrusters were working. People don’t appreciate how a short high sided single engine boat behaves when even a gentle wind gets you at the wrong angle

At least you know now why your bow thruster wasn't working very well.

 

[Bouba]

At least you know now why your bow thruster wasn't working very well.

Like everything in my life there lies a tale.....at the end of summer we had to move the boat to its winter spot...we left the dog at home on a dead calm beautiful day....but as soon as I was leaving my berth, I realized the thrusters weren’t responding....the wife said I should go to the take out and get them to jet wash (it’s just on the other side of the river and easy to approach)....but I was in one of my old man moods...I was here to take the boat to the winter port and that is what I’m going to do !....deep down I was pizzed off how my entire summer boating was lost...I made an excuse that I need to check it’s not something internal wrong with the thrusters before spending money lifting it....anyhow parking the boat was another nightmare....and adding to that was the recent nightmare. But the real pain, the one where I can’t look the wife in the eyes because I know I **** upped, is that this port, while doing a good job, has taken me for every penny I have .....the moral of the story....always listen to the wife

 

[Hurricane]

That's a tight lift out dock.

Almost as tight as this one





Just a layer of carpet

 

[Bouba]

Sitting having coffee in the port…apparently I was booked for 9:30 not 9:00
So it should launch soon…no decent weather for a trip until at least Sunday…at least it will give me time to put the electric blanket back on

 

[benjenbav]

Sitting having coffee in the port…apparently I was booked for 9:30 not 9:00
So it should launch soon…no decent weather for a trip until at least Sunday…at least it will give me time to put the electric blanket back on

Looks like a nice place to while away a few minutes. Hope you get to enjoy the boat in the near future. Sorry to hear about your dog; they mean so much.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Sitting having coffee in the port…apparently I was booked for 9:30 not 9:00
So it should launch soon…no decent weather for a trip until at least Sunday…at least it will give me time to put the electric blanket back on

That's a quick turn around who did you find to clean the underside and barnacles off and then antifoul during the weekend. Because there is no chance you would have done it you lazy git.