Nomad Willy
Guru
Thanks guys for the good feedback.
I knew there was potential.
One potential problem I thought about was the fact that reverse thrust would start out w a loaded propeller and lots of prop walk. But as speed increased the prop walk would unload .. fall off fairly quickly but you’d probably still have the same thruster push so the “system” would quickly become unbalanced .. and a straight course aft would not be had.
But w me it’s all just theory as I never have operated a thruster. My prop walk problem was mostly while backing down on an unset anchor. The wind is usually on the nose and on my Willard the wind pushed the bow off usually (as I remember) on the stbd side.
The obvious thing to do it would seem is to just let the wind push me sideways but feeding out rode until it was time to make it fast and straighten out and follow up w a little reverse to set.
Mostly I remember the anchor line did’nt feed sideways nicely AT ALL. I always felt foolish in this situation. But we always anchored up successfully.
I knew there was potential.
One potential problem I thought about was the fact that reverse thrust would start out w a loaded propeller and lots of prop walk. But as speed increased the prop walk would unload .. fall off fairly quickly but you’d probably still have the same thruster push so the “system” would quickly become unbalanced .. and a straight course aft would not be had.
But w me it’s all just theory as I never have operated a thruster. My prop walk problem was mostly while backing down on an unset anchor. The wind is usually on the nose and on my Willard the wind pushed the bow off usually (as I remember) on the stbd side.
The obvious thing to do it would seem is to just let the wind push me sideways but feeding out rode until it was time to make it fast and straighten out and follow up w a little reverse to set.
Mostly I remember the anchor line did’nt feed sideways nicely AT ALL. I always felt foolish in this situation. But we always anchored up successfully.