New boat blues

[benjenbav]

This shows a variation on one of the techniques I was trying to describe in my post above.

I’ve always used that technique. It just works. All you need is to get a stern line on to a cleat and everything else is easy. The whole thing can be managed without leaving the cockpit.

I hate seeing crew leaping onto pontoons from moving boats. No-one wants the lasting memory of a pleasant voyage to be their visit to A&E.

 

[Daydream believer]

So next move is a list of brokerages. Considering how long it took to buy the boat it will take years to sell so I reckon you should get started We need a Wansy selling the boat thread now, to keep the forum futureproofed

 

[KevinV]

Go visit Rum_Pirate....it will test your seamanship....and test your navigation if you can find his island

Test your navigation getting back to the boat if you find his rum collection

 

[GunfleetSand]

look up singlehanded technique using a “lasso” of a cleat with a midship line as a spring. You can practice throwing your coils as a lasso at home whilst waiting for your eye. No need to leap anywhere. Works just as well with two people. No need for leaping, but it does need a clear plan and trust in physics.

Captain Jeffery’s here to help

 

[Bouba]

Captain Jeffery’s here to help

Except for the Superman jump by the crew onto the dock.......

 

[greeny]

I moved from a real sailing boat to a small trailer sailer a couple of years ago. Berthing is easy with outboard. Drive into slot slowly. Push the bow into the large dock fender you have conveniently positioned earlier. Use the outboard to pin the boat in position by rotating and locking the engine to best position. Lean over side rail to drop stern line loop over cleat. Walk to bow and drop mooring loop onto pontoon cleat. Cup of tea/ beer. Get off boat at your chosen spot, I go just in front of the shrouds as the flimsy finger doesnt sink as much. Then tidy lines. Tiller plus outboard = easiest boat vertical ever berthed. Just need to use 2 hands for 3 things. Tiller, outboard, throttle/gear.

 

[Bouba]

I moved from a real sailing boat to a small trailer sailer a couple of years ago. Berthing is easy with outboard. Drive into slot slowly. Push the bow into the large dock fender you have conveniently positioned earlier. Use the outboard to pin the boat in position by rotating and locking the engine to best position. Lean over side rail to drop stern line loop over cleat. Walk to bow and drop mooring loop onto pontoon cleat. Cup of tea/ beer. Get off boat at your chosen spot, I go just in front of the shrouds as the flimsy finger doesnt sink as much. Then tidy lines. Tiller plus outboard = easiest boat vertical ever berthed. Just need to use 2 hands for 3 things. Tiller, outboard, throttle/gear.

Are you crazy !.....you haven’t turned off the outboard motor !

 

[greeny]

Are you crazy !.....you haven’t turned off the outboard motor !

Is that why there's never any petrol in it when i go back the next day. Though someone was nicking it. Problem solved by the forum yet again.

 

[ylop]

This shows a variation on one of the techniques I was trying to describe in my post above.

Yes that’s what I was trying to describe- when I said haul in on the winch I didn’t mean use a winch handle I meant take the slack out and make it off on the winch, no knot required.

 

[MontyMariner]

I’ve always used that technique. It just works. All you need is to get a stern line on to a cleat and everything else is easy. The whole thing can be managed without leaving the cockpit.

I'm guessing that you have never tied up to a finger in Cherbourg.
They are just over half the length of a 10 mtr boat and have a D ring on the end of the finger.
A boat centre cleat is a must have, I don't leave the boat until the centre cleat line is on.

 

[ProDave]

I’ve always used that technique. It just works. All you need is to get a stern line on to a cleat and everything else is easy. The whole thing can be managed without leaving the cockpit.

I hate seeing crew leaping onto pontoons from moving boats. No-one wants the lasting memory of a pleasant voyage to be their visit to A&E.

It's always easy peasy when it's like that, dead flat water, no wind, no waves no current.

Now try it with F3 / F4 blowing you off your pontoon. If I approach at that speed I will end up against the next boat along.

Now lets see a video of that in real conditions.