Parking with bow thruster on 32ft long keeler

[TangaraToo]

Neither does the laser once you learn to sheet in and out fast during the gybe. Prior to that it does get very embarrasing (and wet) at the gybe mark. Standard gybe routine doesn't seem to work on the laser.

 

[sailorman]

Neither does the laser once you learn to sheet in and out fast during the gybe. Prior to that it does get very embarrasing (and wet) at the gybe mark. Standard gybe routine doesn't seem to work on the laser.

I did learn that, eventually

 

[eddystone]

This is clearly a situation where the OP was not a dinghy sailor in their earlier life because everyone knows dinghy sailors make much better cruising skippers. If only they'd learnt to sail in Mirror dinghy they'd have none of these problems. :

Speaking as the OP, that is clearly the root of my problems, however I'm not an ex-naval officer either, so maybe they cancel each other out.
BTW, my next thread will be about fitting a bow thruster to my solo dinghy to help with landing when the wind is blowing onshore.

 

[nortada]

Speaking as the OP, that is clearly the root of my problems, however I'm not an ex-naval officer either, so maybe they cancel each other out.
BTW, my next thread will be about fitting a bow thruster to my solo dinghy to help with landing when the wind is blowing onshore.

Nice one. is this a subtle comment?

 

[eddystone]

Nice one. is this a subtle comment?

Subtle?, Moi?

 

[nortada]

Subtle?, Moi?

Not so far as the RN is concerned.

Now they will not be needed for Syria, you my just have won your very own Tomahawk.

 

[rotrax]

What happened to the "Bucket on a string over the bow" theory?
Lots of discussion on here recently about that helping.
Anyone tried it before I buy a builders bucket and some rope?

 

[Twister_Ken]

What happened to the "Bucket on a string over the bow" theory

'Bucket on a string'. Wasn't that a hit song by Sandy Shaw?

 

[eddystone]

'Bucket on a string'. Wasn't that a hit song by Sandy Shaw?

Would a puppet on a string work just as well?

 

[TangaraToo]

Would a puppet on a string work just as well?

Probabaly not but a Muppet on a string might

 

[eddystone]

Probabaly not but a Muppet on a string might

I think that's called keelhauling