Marina Berth - Do you enter forwards or backwards

Tranona said:
Usually forward because it faces the prevailing wind and easier single handed. Sometimes backwards if i want to walk on through the transom, but it is a tricky tight turn into the wind for me.
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Your challenge Tranona - should you wish to accept :-

To modify those cheap small electric outboards to clip on to any type of bow to use as a thruster.

You could make a fortune.
 
Usually forwards as we get the sun and the view down river that way when in the cockpit. But having a fin keel and sail drive with a big single rudder, either direction is possible along as you maintain above about a knot.
 
sailorman said:
due to my transom & concrete floats its bows first,every time
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Ok then.

Sailorman. Your challenge - should you wish to accept, is to design an all round inflatable fender that would go off like a life raft. This would be operated close to the tiller by using a button marked panic.

When things go wrong you could just bounce about, like a tunnel of love boat, until you finally come to a stop. Insurance premiums would go down to about £10 a year.
 
LONG_KEELER said:
Ok then.

Sailorman. Your challenge - should you wish to accept, is to design an all round inflatable fender that would go off like a life raft. This would be operated close to the tiller by using a button marked panic.

When things go wrong you could just bounce about, like a tunnel of love boat, until you finally come to a stop. Insurance premiums would go down to about £10 a year.
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my premium went down £80 this year
 
Stork_III said:
Always forwards, why would you want every T, D or H, walking passed, looking into your cockpit/saloon?
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+1 , and also because it means we face the prevailing wind .. and when reversing out the prevailing wind usually (but not always) obliges by swinging the bow round.
 
I tried a number of times, but now I never reverse in, it's impossible to get my Sportsboat to do anything in reverse without a lot of revs and resultant high speed.
 
Pontoon berthing alongside is easy unless there is a cross wind to blow the bow off. Its OK if the crew can get a line to a cleat and I can use the engine to pin the boat alongside but over the years we have taken the stress free route and formulated these "recommendations"; they keep the boat and the crew in one piece.

We prefer to moor stern to.

Pontoon berthing in cross winds up to 18kts we berth stern to over 18kts bows to, because of the angle the bow blows off when motoring astern across the wind. Pontoon berthing Up or down wind, strength makes no difference we berth stern in.

med berthing for us is stern to but if the wind is over 25 kts blowing us onto the berth we anchor off and wait

med berthing over 18kts cross wind we anchor off and wait (see above)

med berthing with wind blowing us off the berth we berth in any wind strength

yes were're wimps!
 
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More often than not stern-to, so that we can step on and off via the sugar-scoop.

BUT:
If it's windy there are some very flukey gusts come between the buildings so it's then easier to go bow-to.

AND:
Stern-to leaves the bow facing south so the water-line is sunny and grows a beard. Bow-to leaves the stern in the sun and the waterline is in shadow that way.
 
Forwards as the Furia is designed that way with steps through the pulpit and we get the sun in the cockpit. The winds do want to blow the stern sideways but we counter that by crossing the stern lines.
 
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