mooring courses

[sara]

We've had a sailing cruiser for several years but I'm having lots of trouble getting practice at pontoon berthing in a marina/coming alongside near other boats/rafting up/mooring up to a buoy when under power.
Anyone know of a practical course devoted to mooring with a very basic engine?
RYA Dayskipper/Competent Crew is really too general.

 

[hlb]

Oh. We can teach you here. Have a go at this one. Then we will get on to the more tecnical stuff.............../forums/images/icons/smile.gif

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[Renegade_Master]

You can have a basic boat handling or Helmsman Practical course

"Sun Coast Marine sea school in the sun"

 

[jhr]

If (as I infer) there are particular issues of lack of power or, ahem, "challenging" handling characteristics with your boat, why not hire somebody for bespoke one-to-one tuition for a day or so?

You'd be getting the practice in on your boat rather than a benbavjanateria and could tailor the training precisely to your needs, as well as getting far more intensive practice. More expensive, of course, but probably excellent value for money. Lots of recommendations for training providers hereabouts and on S'butt.

 

[Col]

Remind me again Haydn. Which end is "pointy end"?
Or is it a narrow boat??

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.arweb.co.uk/argallery/colspics> Cols Picture Album</A>

 

[jfm]

bespoke needed

I entirely agree with jhr. The standard menu of courses doesn't cover this. Much better to hire a personal instructor for the day, he/she will do the instructing, you set the syllabus.

Otherwise take a sunsail holiday and prang it as much as you like while practising

 

[hlb]

Not being clever enough to draw pointy end. Theres a dot instead. The poiny end is facing north or up.

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[MedDreamer]

Try this

http://home.attbi.com/~mltsoftware/docksim.html

Hope it works. Its good fun and the gelcoat repairs are much cheaper

Martyn

 

[Renegade_Master]

Doesnt work on my puter silly Java thingies

"Sun Coast Marine sea school in the sun"

 

[hlb]

well it worked for me. Second time though.

It's a bloody sight easier with a real boat though!!

<font color=blue> Haydn

 

[Guest]

Sara,

I just a level 2 powerboating course with my wife last weekend in Chichester, it was brilliant, with a good selection of weather. The course included quite a bit of mooring which I found facinating, use of springs e.t.c I would recommend that as the others say that you get some training, the course we were on was general, but if you anly have trouble with mooring then as suggested concentrate on that. When we were moored up at one point a great big sailing yacht came to more in fron of us, they did not have a clue, missed the mooring first time and went round again, second time were late but got a rope around a cleat, with the wind they were blowing about 8ft from the bow which was the only attached rope to the mooring, our instructor seeing them in trouble suggested that they powered forward a touch which would have brought them in, but know, they looked at him as if he was a piece of dirt and struggled and struggled trying to pull the boat into the mooring. Eventually after a long while a loads of effort they got it pretty much in, but why are some people just so arrogant, even though none seemed to know what they were doing. Well done for admitting you need a bit of extra training, seems like these clowns didn't. Near the end of our day we saw them sailing out of Chichester marina in a force 6 getting stronger, goodness knows what they were up to, as the crew did not have a clue.

 

[Guest]

And another thing, you will need these skills if you have a man overboard, no good if you can't recover them, or keep running over them!!! Good luck anyway.

 

[montezuma]

Several sailing schools run boat handling courses (aka "pontoon bashing"). I'm fairly sure that one of them is BOSS at Hamble Point.

 

[Martin_Billings]

Brilliant!

 

[jfm]

greatwebsite

Meddreamer, totally brilliat bit of software! If you can park that baby, you can park the QE2. Is there a twin engine version anywhere!

Here's a hotlink version <A target="_blank" HREF=http://home.attbi.com/~mltsoftware/docksim.html
>http://home.attbi.com/~mltsoftware/docksim.html
</A>

 

[Guest]

Why do you think my computer can't run it, it just stays blank and does not load.

 

[Duster]

Hi Sara
You do not say whereabouts in the country you are, so it is difficult to recommend a particular instructor but phone the RYA and ask the for the phone numbers of a few local instructors , tell them what you want to practice and I am sure they will lay on a special day. Some years ago I wanted to build my confidence/ability in rough water and Seatrek did a superb day for me , part on their boat and part on mine.Try to chose one who specialises in commercial training and avoid the larger "Horray Henry" type sea schools if possible, they are usualy too busy showing you what they can do and charge a fortune.
Regards Mike

 

[Reap]

Re: greatwebsite

That link is not corect i think:

Page URL Not Found!!

The requested page does not exist on this server. The URL you typed or followed is either outdated or inaccurate

Thats all I get!

 

[DavidJ]

Re: greatwebsite

I got to it by doing a search on docksim
The address is
http://home.attbi.com/~mltsoftware/docksim.html
which looks the same to me ..I don't know why it didn't work
David

 

[jfm]

Re: making the link work

when you click the link it adds a couple of rogue characters at the end of the url, after the html. Dunno why. But if you just delete them from the address field in your browser window it's ok. Sorry, I must have bodged something up with the link