Ooops!

[Evadne]

Mock ye Not, mes amis!

With about 200 metres to go I decided we were going a bit quickly so gave her a burst of reverse. We surged forward!

Repeat burst in reverse, surged forward again! Eeek!!

+1 Unfortunately only half a boat's length from the pontoon when it happened, fortunately only doing 2kts, and even more fortunately a spoon bow and cut-away forefoot slides up onto a wooden pontoon (and off again) remarkably gracefully. Remembering to tie off before you're catapulted across the bay requires some sang froid.

 

[SHUG]

Do the "Avoidance of Collisions at Sea" help here. The Golf was hit on the Starboard side so......
"When two power-driven vessel are crossing so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her starboard side shall keep out of the way and shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other vessel."

Clearly the Golf is in the wrong!!!!!!

 

[Sybarite]

Probably been posted before...there but for the grace of...
For those who haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=t2dE5p1cx-o

Probably charterers with no sense of reaction.

 

[paul.norton]

Saw something like that in Watchet harbour many years ago -------------except on that occasion it was a 2,000 ton coaster

 

[whipper_snapper]

Probably charterers with no sense of reaction.

The actions of the crewman suggest that he knew very well what was going on. A less experienced person might have rushed forward to fend off; loosing a limb in the process. He seemed to consider it for a second and then braced for impact, suggesting he was not a novice.

 

[Tidewaiter2]

The actions of the crewman suggest that he knew very well what was going on. A less experienced person might have rushed forward to fend off; loosing a limb in the process. He seemed to consider it for a second and then braced for impact, suggesting he was not a novice.

Or maybe that helmsman had form already that charter

 

[reginaldon]

A daft place to park a car

My thoughts exactly!

 

[mjcoon]

If the skipper was relying on reverse to stop his yacht then he was going too fast and is still at fault. There looked to be a bit of a breeze blowing towards the pontoon but not enough to have built that kind of speed.

That, in the general case, is a bit unfair! (Mind you I haven't looked at the video.) It can sometimes be essential to keep steerage way on to counter, say, sidewind. Then if anchor-dropping is out of the question, as often the case in harbours and marinas, reverse (or forward if stern-to) is the only way of losing that way again.

Mike.

 

[lustyd]

That, in the general case, is a bit unfair! (Mind you I haven't looked at the video.) It can sometimes be essential to keep steerage way on to counter, say, sidewind. Then if anchor-dropping is out of the question, as often the case in harbours and marinas, reverse (or forward if stern-to) is the only way of losing that way again.

Mike.

That's a fair point. I've never moored anything that wouldn't steer properly apart from mobos

 

[Trop Cher]

That, in the general case, is a bit unfair! (Mind you I haven't looked at the video.) It can sometimes be essential to keep steerage way on to counter, say, sidewind. Then if anchor-dropping is out of the question, as often the case in harbours and marinas, reverse (or forward if stern-to) is the only way of losing that way again.

Mike.

Try looking at the video. The boat was going too fast for whatever their intenion was. IMHO

 

[explores]

One of the east ender's actors learnt to sail in Mylor, he always parked the yacht that way, just ramed the pontoon.

Brian

Was it Steve Macfaden? (Phil)

 

[Wunja]

The car should have had an anchoring ball!

 

[sailorman]

The car should have had an anchoring ball!

BALL

 

[Wunja]

BALL

That's what is says! (I can edit my post faster than you can quote it!!! )

 

[richgiddens]

Probably charterers with no sense of reaction.

Quite right. I'm a charterer so, obviously, don't know the pointy end from the blunt end, never get those big, white sheet things up, say, 'over and out', refuse a boat without a chart plotter, never, ever take the boat into less than 10 meters of water etc etc.
And as for my reaction times, you'd be better off with a Three Toed Sloth.

 

[Twister_Ken]

The car should have had an anchoring ball!

As it had been parked, shouldn't it be two balls, or a vessel not under command?

 

[Metabarca]

I must say the whole manoeuvre is odd; was he trying to come alongside? Drop an anchor and moor bow-to (not allowed there)? Or what?

 

[fisherman]

It looks to me like the boat accelerates part way through its approach. Throttle dyslexia on the part of the helmsman perhaps?

No, he went astern but the gear cable broke at that moment, so he thought he was applying more throttle in astern, actually still ahead. My educated guess, seen it before.

Sorry, see#19.

 

[Stemar]

Got that t shirt. Fortunately I was coming alongside and had room to swing out and have another go, this time with a split pin in the appropriate orifice.

It's a horrible feeling when you go astern and don't seem to be slowing down, so you give it a load of welly

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Got that t shirt. Fortunately I was coming alongside and had room to swing out and have another go, this time with a split pin in the appropriate orifice.

It's a horrible feeling when you go astern and don't seem to be slowing down, so you give it a load of welly

Even worse when the nav table Lever cable stretches by just 1mm!! on a trip and locks out the Lever at the helm, and you can't engage reverse

Well known fault on the 115, but boat was new to us, then

Got the T, mug and dvd for that one, so gave up and did away with the lower lever!
Our blood pressure improved no end.