Docking?

[capttonyf]

This guy is the LAST Guy that should be doing an instructional video on How To Dock.
Bad, just Bad. the first thing he states is Basically you'll never be able to master docking your boat. This really is killing me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTexQcLhdQ

Then I have no idea what this guy in this Custom Sporty is doing either. Blew out his window and then was basically in the slip and pulled back out. How he got that close I have no idea. there is Nothing on his Starb Side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEylnIK09c

Tony

 

[Avenger]

Here's the problem with the first one:

"Tips for both the novice and the more experienced by a Master 5 Certificate sailor."

Just the title "How to Park" tells you something too.

I also got a kick out of how they're inspecting the waterline for damage at the very end.

 

[Pascal]

To the defense of the second guy, he is med mooring not coming into a slip... Med mooring is a tricky maneuver which requires excellent coordination between the captain, the guy at the bow handling the line to the mooing buoy and the stern crew handling the stern line. Not easy and being rarely done in the U.S. make it even more tricky

That said there is a long list of things that are obvious in that video starting with not having fenders ready and with the guy in cockpit just sitting there until the very end. He should be tending to the lines starting with a port aide stem line to control the stern and prevent the now from drifting onto the other boat. It looks like they had a stbd stern line on and right which woul pull the stern the wrong way and send the bow on the other boat

The "captain" didnt seem too concerned though and should have been giving clear orders his crew.

But again, if one hasn't med moored lately they may want to think about how they would handle this before being too harsh. Down here in Miami there is really only one place you could med moor ( no name harbor on key Biscayne)... I do it once in while if the bulkhead is full and there is just room for our beam. No buoys obviously so you have to be sure your anchor sets ! Actually people are so unfamiliar with med mooring that usually we end up with a crowd on the dock looking at us like we re from another planet

 

[magnawake]

In referance to Med mooring (never done it), but i tried to pull a sailboat off a sandbar with my bow. When I secured the rope to his bow and tried to back off I had absolutely no control. The wind was blowing 20 mph and I couldnt back in the direction I wanted no matter what inputs I did. Note to self, never try that again. I almost ran aground on the same sandbar. Being a good samaritian almost cost me a Tow Boat call. Those guys in the video would really be in a fix if they had a Motor Yacht with all the windage. It should be labeled " How not to park a boat".

 

[Garyd1]

First guy is the same guy that runs around the dock telling everyone never to touch the wheel.

Then he gets into this situation or worse yet one engine and he is a little lost.

 

[saltshaker]

The first one is wrong in so many ways. As mentioned you don't park a boat. On the first attempt he obviously wasn't paying attention to the wind as he spun the boat too soon but at least he had it right by backing down against the wind. On the subsequent attempts he's trying to back down with the wind. Looking at the boats, trees water etc. it doesn't look like there was much wind to begin with. Even on his successful 4th attempt he came in crooked and had no wind. He also seemed a bit heavy with the throttles. All this going into a wide slip with a ton of room to approach and line up. He has no business trying to offer advice on how to "drive or park" a boat. Not sure what happened with the second guy but I've seen that clip before and heard they had a problem with one engine not shifting. Doesn't appear that way in the video but something obviously went wrong be it operator or mechanical failure.

 

[krush]

Whats so hard about backing in tied off to a buoy in the front. If the buoy or the anchor is straight in front of the slip, going back against it will tend to straiten the boat out, correct?

 

[Cricket]

The guy running the Ritchie Howell boat has no idea what he's doing both at the helm, and directing the crew which he had plenty of. Between the light boat weight and the C32's that boat has to be a dream around the dock.

 

[Pascal]

Whats so hard about backing in tied off to a buoy in the front. If the buoy or the anchor is straight in front of the slip, going back against it will tend to straiten the boat out, correct?

When is the last time you med moored?

 

[SKYCHENEY]

What concerns me is the lack of railings. It may look "cool" but it is really dangerous and the crew was lucky not to loose a leg or fall overboard.

 

[rsmith]

Those stupid ball fenders too. All the SF guys have to have them because they look cool. We used them on the lobster boat for pots but their worthless for anything else.

 

[Pascal]

The ball fenders have their use, a 24" ball has twice the cushioning and spacing of a standard tube fender which comes. In handy in rougher conditions. Obviously the wrong fender to use when trying to fender off a boat with such a flare

We use mostly tube fenders but keep a couple of 24" balls just in case

 

[krush]

When is the last time you med moored?

I asked a question. I didn't make a statement. Please enlighten me.

 

[q240z]

In answer to the title question "Docking?"

I think the answer is: No...crashing in slow motion.

"Mind the dinghy" is pretty funny, too. When in doubt, forget about the back end and hit the gas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI4quuGz_zk

 

[magnawake]

In answer to the title question "Docking?"

I think the answer is: No...crashing in slow motion.

"Mind the dinghy" is pretty funny, too. When in doubt, forget about the back end and hit the gas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI4quuGz_zk

Man, that was close. I had plenty of room. I almost lost my dinghy. No worries mate. Excuse me, coming through.

 

[capttonyf]

In answer to the title question "Docking?"

I think the answer is: No...crashing in slow motion.

"Mind the dinghy" is pretty funny, too. When in doubt, forget about the back end and hit the gas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI4quuGz_zk

That is so funny I couldn't stop laughing. It starts out with a someone almost getting hooked then proceeds to to show the dinghy scratching , not just a section, but the entire hull length of multiple boats. What a mess, the sound of the creaching and scratching i think is what makes it so funny. Then that women runs back there, grabs the line and just throws her hands up, like what do you expect me to do. Very funny, good find.

Tony

 

[saltshaker]

How not to transit a fixed bridge. I love the ducks offering a warning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0OfRxuQwUE

And here's the right way to do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdwpsaPsqw0

 

[Pascal]

I asked a question. I didn't make a statement. Please enlighten me.

"Whats so hard about backing in tied off to a buoy in the front. If the buoy or the anchor is straight in front of the slip, going back against it will tend to straiten the boat out, correct?"

your question indicated you may not have med moored in a while... So I got curious and asked. That's all.

 

[rsmith]

The ball fenders have their use, a 24" ball has twice the cushioning and spacing of a standard tube fender which comes. In handy in rougher conditions. Obviously the wrong fender to use when trying to fender off a boat with such a flare

We use mostly tube fenders but keep a couple of 24" balls just in case

The only possible use is in a rafting senario but only at the stern or amidships you always see dip wads trying to use them against pilings or finger docks.

 

[krush]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZNAc6jFac look at this pro...in a searay

Pascal, I've moored like that using a front buoy. I'm just asking what is so hard about it. I've never done it in close quarters on a large yacht.