docking video

[Jim Hardesty]

Sailors,

Saw this Catalina docking and thought I'd share.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dxEG05lDU

Jim

[KWKloeber]

Masterful!!  TY 

[Noah]

Very impressive, albeit a bit scary "hot" for my more fearful docking style! Hard to judge that fine line between having enough speed for steerage and the risk of catastrophic crashing.

[waughoo]

dig it!  I love how manouverarable a fin keel sailboat is.  The motion is VERY predictable.  I also am curious if that boat has a max prop thus making power on backing up a more predictable/controllable project.

[Stu Jackson]

dig it!  I love how manouverarable a fin keel sailboat is.  The motion is VERY predictable.  I also am curious if that boat has a max prop thus making power on backing up a more predictable/controllable project.

My fixed 3 blade (i.e., bucket) does that all the time.  No moving parts underwater.  OK, so I'm just a luddite.

[waughoo]

I will admit that I am often distracted by bright, shinny and expensive boat hardware at the expense of it's practical benefit :-)

[lazybone]

I'd be impressed if he was holding an umbrella drink.

[scgunner]

Well he can sure drive a sailboat a helluva lot better than I can. Since it was at some distance it was hard to see what he was actually doing, a running commentary or a close up of what he was doing, or both would be better. The only thing I learned from this video is this guy can really handle a big boat in close quarters.

[Steve_in_lex]

In all seriousness, I'd be interested in suggestions regarding prop wash.  I have a MK II with a 2-blade folding propeller, and it tends to pull in exactly the wrong direction when I back off the dock from a stop position: stern going to stbd., which points the bow to shallow water to port.  In an open setting, I can get enough speed going backward to be able to steer properly, but not from a standing start.

[Jim Hardesty]

In all seriousness, I'd be interested in suggestions regarding prop wash.  I have a MK II with a 2-blade folding propeller, and it tends to pull in exactly the wrong direction when I back off the dock from a stop position: stern going to stbd., which points the bow to shallow water to port.  In an open setting, I can get enough speed going backward to be able to steer properly, but not from a standing start

Steve,
The thing about prop walk is that it's always the same, plan for it.  Only get prop walk when boat is in gear.  I've found short burst of power, then neutral, repeat.  Practice.  Also walking the boat back, possibly with a line, till it's nearly out of the slip gives less room for problems.  I mostly single hand and do that when I may have problems.
Hope that helps,
Jim

[Ron Hill]

Guys : I agree with Stu, a fixed 3 bladed is very predictable. 

This guy was fortunate that there wasn't any cross wind on that long fairway!!  I've even had a slip mate that would stand on the other side of the wheel and be looking ahead (AFT) to backing up steering that way!!

A thought   

[scgunner]

Steve,

That was also my point, there was no "how to" in this video, just a guy doing a really awesome job of singling a boat into a tight spot. I got as much from this video as I would sitting in a bar overlooking the marina watching a guy park his boat.

Another thing, I watched this video a few times and I was thinking, wouldn't be easier to go in bow first, it's very tight either way and I don't see the advantage of backing in, bow first everything's in front of you, stern first you're looking over your shoulder.

[KWKloeber]

sitting in a bar overlooking the marina watching a guy park his boat.

the advantage of backing in,

Some things are just for enjoyment, 'eh?  Besides some of us don't have a bar overlooking the marina.

To point how he wanted to, backing in was the way to do it.
Especially for leaving some point down the road.