When It Starts To Go Wrong, It Does It In A Big Way

[Dave100456]

Maybe 'seen' before on here.... Painful watching and you feel for the three moored boats.

 

[Halo]

Yes it’s been on here before but still painful to watch. It gets worse when he picks up another boats slime line.

 

[PhillM]

What surprises/impresses me is just how little visible damage there actually is. For all the claims of 'lightly built' AWB's these all seem to come off with little more than a scratch or two.

 

[dankilb]

What surprises/impresses me is just how little visible damage there actually is. For all the claims of 'lightly built' AWB's these all seem to come off with little more than a scratch or two.

Yeah but I bet there’s approaching £10k in damage to toe rails, pullpits and other hardware, let alone the cost of putting right the scratches and scrapes in all that shiny new grp ?

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Whatever that skipper smokes, he must stop smoking it.

 

[doug748]

I can't figure out the intention.

If he was coming in, what was the chap at the bow doing with the anchor primed? Any why did he take off again after getting in a relatively safe position twice?

If he was going out he had opportunities to just take off out of it. Only solution is post prandial drinkies or brainstorm or a novice with the motto: "how hard can it be".
:- )
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[LadyInBed]

It's painful to watch!
All power and fluster.

 

[Bobc]

What a complete idiot. Why didn't he just use the handbrake, as it looks like he thought he was driving a car.

 

[JumbleDuck]

A common feature of these messed up docking videos is that the person driving sits hunched over the wheel. apparently taking no interest in what the boat is doing. I suspect that the reults are a mixture of lacking situational awareness and a stubborn (or panicked) denial of reality.

 

[Bobc]

A common feature of these messed up docking videos is that the person driving sits hunched over the wheel. apparently taking no interest in what the boat is doing. I suspect that the reults are a mixture of lacking situational awareness and a stubborn (or panicked) denial of reality.

Yup I see it a lot. Standing at the back shoving at the engine controls and thruster, when the best thing to do is to leave it all alone and let the boat drift and settle. This clown obviously had no idea of what the effect of wind was going to be on a hull, and the fact that in these situations, you're always better off reversing a boat into the wind than trying to turn the bows into it.

 

[Greenheart]

Does anybody here still use long, heavy planks slung between fenders to defend against ill-judged parking? Planks wouldn't protect against high overhangs snagging toerails and wiping out stanchions, but would provide separation from rear-quarters slamming into our wide-open topsides, which fenders can scarcely be positioned to do.

Or is the appearance of planks hanging from the topsides, too reminiscent of the tarry dockyard?

Fenders advertise the expectation of contact anyway, and aren't visually appealing things. I'd use planks too - painted, if necessary.

 

[Bobc]

It's painful to watch!
All power and fluster.

You mean all power and no brains. Come to think of it, it wasn't Jeremy Clarkson driving was it?

 

[Concerto]

Seems more like charterers who think berthing is easy, just like parking a car.

 

[fredrussell]

No mean feat getting a boat with high topsides into a small gap like that with a fair amount of side wind. Myself, I’d just anchor and come in on the flubber.

 

[SaltyC]

No mean feat getting a boat with high topsides into a small gap like that with a fair amount of side wind. Myself, I’d just anchor and come in on the flubber.

There speaks the voice of experience.

 

[capnsensible]

Yup I see it a lot. Standing at the back shoving at the engine controls and thruster, when the best thing to do is to leave it all alone and let the boat drift and settle. This clown obviously had no idea of what the effect of wind was going to be on a hull, and the fact that in these situations, you're always better off reversing a boat into the wind than trying to turn the bows into it.

Agree to an extent but why does his obvious lack of experience make him a clown?

Most mooring situations can be resolved but that was a difficult one for a novice or someone nervous.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Yup I see it a lot. Standing at the back shoving at the engine controls and thruster, when the best thing to do is to leave it all alone and let the boat drift and settle. This clown obviously had no idea of what the effect of wind was going to be on a hull, and the fact that in these situations, you're always better off reversing a boat into the wind than trying to turn the bows into it.

Yes, the need to be doing something is a killer. As is the frequent complete failure to recognise that boats turn around somewhere in the middle - there are an awful lots of unnecessary sideswipes by sterns.

What happens after these mooring cock-ups? Are there lowered brows and muttered threats along the quay all evening or does everyone swap insurance details and get along fine?

 

[alan_d]

I can't figure out the intention.

If he was coming in, what was the chap at the bow doing with the anchor primed? Any why did he take off again after getting in a relatively safe position twice?

If he was going out he had opportunities to just take off out of it. Only solution is post prandial drinkies or brainstorm or a novice with the motto: "how hard can it be".
:- )
.

I suspect he started off trying to drop the anchor and berth stern-to, and although at one point it seemed as if he could have moored bows-to he would not have had a stern anchor out to keep him off the quayside.

 

[Laminar Flow]

A Mediterranean moor is not the easiest at the best of times and especially in a cross wind. It requires a very clear chain of command and concise instructions in regards to the crew and perfect timing as to when to and where to drop the hook.

This situation is one of the worst for the crop of ever shorter keels as with no or little forward motion there is little resistance to being blown off.

Personally, I feel for the skipper; he was obviously completely out of his depth and we do not know if his crew was properly instructed or even up to the task. It has been my observation that the less experienced the skipper/helmsman, the more they gun the engine without paying attention to how the boat reacts, when it reacts and you end up with an ever increasing, vicious circle of fore and reverse leading to extremis in a nasty sort of perpetuum mobile.

It would have been best to drop the hook first and somewhat to windward of the next boat. This would have provided at least one fixed point around which to maneuver and would have at least prevented the bow from being blown off.

Of course it is always a lot easier to criticize from the safety of your computer screen.

 

[RupertW]

A Mediterranean moor is not the easiest at the best of times and especially in a cross wind. It requires a very clear chain of command and concise instructions in regards to the crew and perfect timing as to when to and where to drop the hook.

This situation is one of the worst for the crop of ever shorter keels as with no or little forward motion there is little resistance to being blown off.

Personally, I feel for the skipper; he was obviously completely out of his depth and we do not know if his crew was properly instructed or even up to the task. It has been my observation that the less experienced the skipper/helmsman, the more they gun the engine without paying attention to how the boat reacts, when it reacts and you end up with an ever increasing, vicious circle of fore and reverse leading to extremis in a nasty sort of perpetuum mobile.

It would have been best to drop the hook first and somewhat to windward of the next boat. This would have provided at least one fixed point around which to maneuver and would have at least prevented the bow from being blown off.

Of course it is always a lot easier to criticize from the safety of your computer screen.

Agree with all of that except “drop to windward” - that way guarantees anchor chain snarl ups - you do need to drop dead in line but then have enough just enough speed and enough distance to keep going straight in.