Boat docking

[alanlad1]

nice boat



[TheIceIsRight71]

is the boat in the left every once in a while a trojan international?

[kenfo0]

MOVE OVER! 4 more boats to be parked aside you!

[jonnyrebel1000]

Nowt wrong with that really, seen worse on a rainy day in Cowes. The guy did it slow with help. Not sure what the etiquette is in U.S but in the UK I might have considered moving the smaller boat inside, but apart from that, nothing wrong here.

[madisonelectronic]

Just fine. Dead slow in and out of neutral and being smart enough to ask for help. People will scream if you do it yourself but most will come running to help if you ask and have a snort afterwards when you are docked. Most problems are backing in and boozing at the helm. Save the booze for later.

[billfromwi]

The only problem here is the idiot shaking the camera

[jackiebooda]

Love the 32' bayliner next to the camera man. Got the same boat.

[bigrider2806]

i would have dropped a line and had someone pull me in with engine in nuatral

[foxdmulder]

everyones got to learn, not any easierwhen you got a camera pointing at you!

[coab14489]

Couldn't u have moved the boat already at the marina backwards so the bigger boat wouldn't have had to go through so much attention

[sunfm]

@coab14489 no its a matter of how long they were staying as in nights... so the boat comming in was staying longer then the other one so it would have been the same situation on the way out...

[highvelocity123]

For someone who isn't very experienced it's the best way. I would do the same thing if there was current or wind gusting. But in this case I could have pulled straight on through.

[aaobrien81288]

not especially impressive.....easier than you think. 

[robertdave]

Fun to watch.  Thanks for posting.

[1ownjoo2]

I miss having a boat. We hada 32 foot Monteray with twin engines, was really fun when we had it.. But my mom sold it only after having it for a few years.. At least she pretty much got all the money back we paid for it..

[NathanJRucker]

there was 3 feet on each side. i don't see the big deal they made that much more complicated than it needed to be

[Fire499]

whats the big deal? they pulled it into the berth. thought i was going to see some close quarter handling.

[corsair28r]

good seamanship

he used the help to make a safe and eventless docking maneuver which so many other folks would have messed up ...

[mtman69]

Any vidio of him pulling out?

[sunfm]

@mtman69

no but it was easier, the boat in front pulled out first...

[37pb1]

talk to On Water training

[woodypoint69]

pretty straight forward and still bounced off the docked boat

[cmann47647]

Good job. Easy if you know the boat. I had a 26' single inboard Trojan, smaller boat, but I could put it anywhere. Ya gotta know the boat, not panic, watch the current & wind especially, & not be bashful on the throttle when need be.

[Acceoss]

Good job

[Boatdrunker]

Looks like he had good help on the dock

[mollyandtiger]

How do you determine the 'minium controll speed' of your boat.

[santapaella]

the minimum control speed is determined by the rudder, at certain low speed the rudder just doesn't work because the water is not making any pressure(pardon my English) could be something close to 2 knots more or less.

there's a saying that i like pretty much"full speed is fool speed"

[mjkft22]

On a twin screw the effect of rudder lift enables fairly good rudder control with the engines working in gear.

[Regal1800]

talk about threading the needle...

[Scrubs2U]

Could almost hear the squeek

[rcs202]

come on ive seen a guy a sportfisher twice that size do it by himself

[JRC808]

nice job but still a little boring when everything goes the right way...

[alex8q4]

regardless... that's tallent!

[praterguys]

great job

[macpmc]

He looked confident to me nice job. I hope that boat on starboard isn't there every day if so, that slip would suck

[highsieze]

I assume he had a bow thruster and thats how he mannaged to go slow slow... a bit of forward momentum and passage through the water will allow for precise manouvering and also knowing your boat's beam can make for far more stylish docking at the same time minimising having to use morred boats fenders and crew who are probably wanting to rest. However, it was a good display of team work and caution.

[brucehudsonfla]

no bow thruster, if you look theres no wash coming from the bow. either the current was carrying him or he 'walked' the boat in by putting one engine in forward and one in reverse and turning the rudder the opposite direction the boat would turn if you had one in forward and one in rev, causing it to go sideways.

[revluc]

There wasn't wash from the bow or stern, he just bumped his way in there. Looks like he didn't nothing more than put the engines in gear and not g beyond idle.

[kingcr3b]

yeah there was no wash... or if the wash highsieze was talking about was just wake from the boat... yeah my friends dad owns a 36' 1999 S2 Tiara fishing boat. and when we dock it in tight spaces u just put the engines in different gears. i agree with u and brucehudsonfla

[louis2710]

it looked like he just got pulled in i chould be wrong though

[JRC808]

twin screw... easy to ooch sideways and maneuver

[Ahzlon]

Looks like a Sea Ray or Mainship. ?

[Boatdrunker]

Tight!

[wingmanalive]

Calm waters helped a ton.

[lunaatje123]

Job well done.

[jcost0099]

good collateral help from the other boaters and deck hands.