Mooring Advice

[Guest]

Mr Grumps might well have problems mooring his boat stern-to in the marina, so how do you experts go about it?.

I never managed to back up in a narrow slot with a single engined sterndrive if there was a crosswind without entertaining the gang and dinging the boat.

How is it done?

Geoff

 

[DepSol]

Practice, I slow my boat down to 2 knots before I reach my berth and put the engine in neutral. I then swing over the steering and aim right as my berth is on the left until I get close to the boat in front of me. At this point I am going very slow.

I then straighen the steering wheel to a central point engage reverse gently and steer her in. Easy.

Dom

2003 is going to be a good year for me

 

[Renegade_Master]

easier than mooring buoys eh Dom/forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[tr7v8]

When I was moored at Wargrave with the Dolphin we were at the end of a very long channel on a linear mooring. Each side of the channel was moored some very expensive boats. You either reversed in and went out forward or the other way around, I got quite accomplished in the end this was a 20ft 2 + 2 cruiser with a 25HP Evenrude. Soon got the engine tuned so it stayed running!

Jim
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[Guest]

Dom it didn't work for me. If I went in slowly my bow went off down wind and hit the front (with a vicious anchor) of the boat next door. When I tried to steer in, the boat rotated about its centre and the bow went for that anchor again.

I tried going in fast, slewing the bow upwind, just scared myself - and the guy next door. I practiced in the winter in the works car park (with the car) - scared a lot of people didn't help.

Have to admit I gave up and bought a twin, much easier

Geoff



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[DavidJ]

The experts I guess are fishermen. Have you seen their boats covered in huge fenders. They just drive into a gap and let the fenders do the rest.
I think sometimes we have a car fixation about a boat, that we try very hard not to touch the boat next door with our fenders. My advice with a single prop and a cross wind is to get yourself in a safe stationery position and use ropes.
David
Try this docking simulator:
http://home.attbi.com/~mltsoftware/docksim.html
I've not managed to do it yet with a cross wind

 

[camargue]

do you know of any other simulators?

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[Guest]

Practice - but do it somewhere safe...

Find a transit (for example, two fixed points on either side of a river), and practice 'ferry gliding' in a variety of wind and tide conditions. Practice keeping the boat on a straight course between these points. As the bow will inevitably weathercock in a blow, the most controlled approach at slow speed is often going astern with the bow slanted downwind.

Assuming you have a single engine, learn to understand and predict the effect of paddle wheel effect under all permutations of forward and astern drive, and rudder/steering angle. This will help you to make the final swing into your finger berth.

The slower you can do it, the better!

Hope this helps.

Retires gracefully...
Nigel

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[BrendanS]

Jim,
were you down the end of Bushnell's?

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[DavidJ]

http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks.html

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[dangcharios]

The trick is to keep the power on if you slow to much you lose the steering
take an R Y A Powerboat course the instuctor will show you how to turn a single engine boat at 360 dgs

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[Trevor_swfyc]

Mooring or Berthing

Sorry to be pragmatic but as far as I know you do not moor in a marina. I have become aware however that the Crouch Harbour Authority are looking into it, evidently they are investigating if a marina berth can be designated a mooring. Not sure what this is going to lead to, but watch this space.
While on holiday in the Ionian I saw a flotilla lead boat reverse in a strong cross wind he dropped the bow anchor about 20yds off and came back into a gap flat out /forums/images/icons/shocked.gif ok I guess if nothing goes wrong. The yacht did have wheel steering which does help but I wouldn't attempt this technique myself.

Trevor



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[hlb]

Re: Mooring or Berthing

Why. Whats up with it??

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[Trevor_swfyc]

Re: Mooring or Berthing

My yacht has tiller steering and a large transom hung rudder if the tiller gets out of line at anything above 1 knot it whips out of your hand and slams hard over.

Hope this answers your query?

Trevor

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[hlb]

Re: Mooring or Berthing

Wuss................/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[Guest]

Re: Mooring or Berthing

Thanks for the help guys, I really tried everything.

I had instruction from two professional instructors. One of them dinged the boat good and hard ! To be fair it was very windy.

The problem was that I had to back into a slot about 3 ft wider than the boat. Quarter way in and the downwind drift started, steer the stern upwind a bit to avoid crashing into the other boat, my boat rotates - bow goes twice as fast down wind and wraps round that ****** anchor sticking out of the bow of the other boat.

I changed my marina in the end to one where the berths are aligned parallel to the prevailing wind and then as I said bought a twin.

Geoff

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[Happy1]

Re: Mooring or Berthing

Ges, I got a 10mtr berth for a 6mtr boat to give me more room to park.

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[Guest]

Re: Mooring or Berthing

Good Idea Mr Happy but on the South Coast they give you a 6m berth for a 10m boat so you have to go in stern first else you cannot get off.

As you don't have this problem, you can go in forwards - MUCH easier

If you find the wind a problem, a small vane/flag on the bow rail is very useful

Best of luck with the boat - great fun but beware of adding too much weight, it really kills the performance

Geoff

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