Warpa
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I thought the title of the video was a bit harsh at 1st, but watching it through i think he needs a bit of time in open water playing with the bow thruster. not all of us are perfect, but im in no position to judge
Docking Woes
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Seahope
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I would say rather a poor judge of size to start with. I wouldn't have even tried to reverse into such a tiny gap. I can't criticize the skipper's technique as mine is s***t too. I dread the days when our son isn't with us to 'tuck the boat in'. He tells me all I need to do is keep the power on and adjust the forward & reverse direction of boat engines and its easy! The X-Box generation I guess find it so much easier although he doesn't have the worry about having to pay for any damages caused.
Does anyone know of a good simulation program to practice on?
Does anyone know of a good simulation program to practice on?
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sharpness
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Have witnessed many a hire boat on the Norfolk Broads being used as practice, can be quite an "eye opener" in the height of summer!!
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Ripster
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sSeen that clip before and agree the title is a bit harsh at least everything is done slowly and he has crew ready to fend hecseems perhaps not to have grasped that running the BT causes the boat to swivel on its midships not just move the bow over
Elessar
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I thought the title of the video was a bit harsh at 1st, but watching it through i think he needs a bit of time in open water playing with the bow thruster. not all of us are perfect, but im in no position to judge
he has outdrives and a bowthruster. It is therefore an easy peasy manoeuvre and he hasn't got a grasp of the very basics. Ripster is right of course about the swivel point.
Seen worse though, again as he says, he was at least going at the right speed, so not nil points.
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CharlieAlpha
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I agree going slowly (or as I was taught at a speed not to damage anything if you hit it) is Rule1 ans stood me in good stead.
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Deleted User YDKXO
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Thats obviously a Med mooring and often you have to squeeze your boat into a small gap and gently push the boats either side away. There's more than enough space there to get into for a boat that size.
Yes, the helmsman makes a pigs ear of it but we've all been there and got the t shirt on screwing up mooring manouvres and we all know that our skill and experience tends to desert us when there's an audience on the shore just willing us to make a fool of ourselves
ari
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It is a well known boating law that the bigger the audience, the bigger the cock up.
Throw in a bloke with a camcorder and the poor helmsman has no chance!
Throw in a bloke with a camcorder and the poor helmsman has no chance!
Nick_H
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That's pretty generous for a med mooring, most of us have to squeeze into much tighter spaces than that. He just needs some practice, but he got everything else right, fenders out, assistant at the stern, and everything nice and slow.
JKay
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He is trying to moor against the right to left windage ,But with a camcorder and gongoozlers he really has no chance.WTF is his "crew" doing with that boathook
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Sulley
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A bit more practice is required by the skipper.
With a bow thruster as well this should be easy.
I have put my boat in smaller moorings and I'm a girl!
However I do have wonderful crew out on the stern who communicate with me every step of the way.
With a bow thruster as well this should be easy.
I have put my boat in smaller moorings and I'm a girl!
However I do have wonderful crew out on the stern who communicate with me every step of the way.gjgm
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hmm. isnt helped by a good push over to the left with the b/t to start with.. looks like he confused left and right while looking backwards.
A bit more understanding of the outdrives would help too, but hey, we all started somewhere and can still get it wrong.
A bit more understanding of the outdrives would help too, but hey, we all started somewhere and can still get it wrong.
benjenbav
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The thing that gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies about that clip is the person wandering about on the swim platform waving a boathook. At one point he is leaning out, no handholds, all weight on the foot that's on the edge of the platform whilst trying to move a heavy object simply by pushing a stick against a semi-stationary one (the moored boat is med-moored so it will move). And all the while the helmsman is in and out of gear; sharp, whirly objects just below the surface...
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Deleted User YDKXO
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Thats actually a good general point. When I'm reversing into a Med mooring from my flybridge, except for a small area through the access hatch, I can't see anyone who might be standing at the rear of the cockpit or on the bathing platform ready to fend off or handle sternlines. It would be very easy to run them over if they fell in the water. Maybe a safety argument for having an extra set of controls in the cockpit?
Hurricane
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Or a docking camera.
We've got one on each stern quarter.
They take a bit of getting use to but I've got them sussed - most of the time anyway!!
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Better than nothing I suppose but you can't watch the screens all the time and Sods Law says your SWMBO falls in when you're not looking
MapisM
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Well, that's obviously a very convenient thing to have, for Med mooring.
Even better, handheld remote controls allowing you to move either sides of the boat. I actually don't like the radio ones, but there are great wired remotes, highly reliable, which give you practically the same flexibility of radio remotes.
That said, some discipline is sufficient, imho.
Aside from swmbo who's already aware of that, I always tell to any friends onboard who offer to help with lines and fenders to NEVER get out of the cockpit before the engines are turned off, no matter what.
Wood, steel and grp can all be repaired.
lisilou
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Been there, done that and personally, with the onlookers and camcorder I'd have given up on the stern to and gone in front first!! 
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Simondjuk
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Looks pretty type standard to me. 
Also, if that pillock with the boat hook had kept on shoving it against my boat's shiny bits, he'd have had it shoved up his where the sun don't shiney bit!
Also, if that pillock with the boat hook had kept on shoving it against my boat's shiny bits, he'd have had it shoved up his where the sun don't shiney bit!
gjgm
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Couple of years ago I saw some eldery women slip off the bow of her sailing boat as her husband was berthing bow-in. Fortunately she wasnt crushed against the pontoon, but from that day on we agree that SWMBO always tells me is she goes out on the swim platform. Sure, you might say it is blimmin obvious on our boat, but I always berth stern to,props spinning underneath, and when heading off we have fenders out off the swim platform that need removing, so I am not always aware at quite which moment she steps out. For one thing, it is me at the helm, and maybe I have decided to do somethig she isnt aware off just as she steps out.
I feel alot better for it.
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