What are the safety issues?
It is 95% easier to mount the dock in forward as apposed to reverse .This rule was made after several bad accidents and as a prevention this rule has been applied .
Good point....
I don't back in anymore as my boat loads from the side and had a dingy aft that gets used even in marinas. I can back pretty well, but just not a priority anymore.
I don't have a sitting area aft, and if I did, I might still pull in for a bit more privacy.
The best of both worlds is full length floating finger piers on both sides...unfortunately not as common as I would like.
That is a great idea....
No need to be embarrassed. Just disembark declare it an unannounced yacht club lesson and ask who took notes.Yesterday I embarrassed myself.
Make a plan, rehearse the plan, second guess yourself then shout "Hey y"all watch this!"
Make a plan, rehearse the plan, second guess yourself then shout "Hey y"all watch this!"
Another thing to always keep in mind, David Hays and Hurrying Nowhere, is the amazing sideways kick you can get with a single by getting just a bit of stern way on in reverse, then, by putting the helm hard over in the direction you want the bow to go, slipping it quietly through neutral to forward gear, then giver her a good old rev-up. The sternway momentum gives the prop then something to get its teeth into, and the deflecting effect of the rudder hard over kicks the stern around beautifully. If that's not enough to then get in the direction you want to go, then you just repeat the above x number of times, with another quiet reverse, (you don't even need to alter the rudder because it will have no effect in slow reverse), then another burst in forward gear, and Bob's yeruncle, you're good. That is why bow in berthing is so much easier, because you are more manoeuvrable going forward into a berth, but backing out into the fairway is just that - one direction backwards, then some of what I described above. Once I twigged to that manoeuvre, all thoughts of needing to go to the expense of a thruster went out the window...
Another thing to always keep in mind, David Hays and Hurrying Nowhere, is the amazing sideways kick you can get with a single by getting just a bit of stern way on in reverse, then, by putting the helm hard over in the direction you want the bow to go, slipping it quietly through neutral to forward gear, then giver her a good old rev-up. The sternway momentum gives the prop then something to get its teeth into, and the deflecting effect of the rudder hard over kicks the stern around beautifully. If that's not enough to then get in the direction you want to go, then you just repeat the above x number of times, with another quiet reverse, (you don't even need to alter the rudder because it will have no effect in slow reverse), then another burst in forward gear, and Bob's yeruncle, you're good. That is why bow in berthing is so much easier, because you are more manoeuvrable going forward into a berth, but backing out into the fairway is just that - one direction backwards, then some of what I described above. Once I twigged to that manoeuvre, all thoughts of needing to go to the expense of a thruster went out the window...
Thrusts are akin to fly bridges once you have one there's no looking back
Sorry, Gaston. Bad choice of simile. I have a flybridge, and could part with it in a breath. Then I'd have more room for solar panels.
And...wait for it...a pic of Karkeenez Coote is about to appear, I'll wager. Don't you disappoint me now, Mark...