Jeanneau smart (or not so smart) parking

[fireball]

The Bavaria solution is far more pragmatic - fit both a bow and stern thruster and programme up a bit of clever electronics to make them all work together.

Glad I've got a Bav!

 

[Cardo]

Hopefully so. I just don't understand what they were thinking of when they deleted the reverse gear! The Bavaria solution is far more pragmatic - fit both a bow and stern thruster and programme up a bit of clever electronics to make them all work together.

This is the same solution Southerly have gone for, I understand.

 

[snooks]

Hopefully so. I just don't understand what they were thinking of when they deleted the reverse gear!

The prop is most efficient when it's driving in the direction it was designed for. Also all the rotating gubbins has to go somewhere and unless you want an engine in your saloon, then making it rotate seems like the trade off.

Personally I'd go for the side power retractable bow and stern thrusters if I had a big boat I couldn't handle without a trained army of leaping gibbons.

 

[johnphilip]

Well don't tie off both ends of the warp off the Tie one end off on the mid ships cleat, pr run it back to the primary winch, and when your crew steps off the put a turn around the cleat a surge the line out , or you do it on the winch, both work, stopping the boat gently.

By the time you go through this the boat will either be stopped with a jerk and swing around or run into the pontoon ahead. The reality is that in many marinas the fingers are not long enough to have time to do this, often in the moored position the midships cleat is only about 6' forward of the end of the finger, not enough space to take way off the boat without reverse, even worse if there is no cleat at the end of the finger but only a steel hoop.
With a cross wind there are limits on how slowly you can approach.

 

[maby]

By the time you go through this the boat will either be stopped with a jerk and swing around or run into the pontoon ahead. The reality is that in many marinas the fingers are not long enough to have time to do this, often in the moored position the midships cleat is only about 6' forward of the end of the finger, not enough space to take way off the boat without reverse, even worse if there is no cleat at the end of the finger but only a steel hoop.
With a cross wind there are limits on how slowly you can approach.

Indeed - marinas can be very crowded places and these tricks can be impractical. Our boat weighs more than ten tonnes - taking the way off that with a warp round a cleat is not practical, at least in a confined space.