What a clown 😂 He’s making out this is difficult ! With a inboard/propeller/rudder boat, sure ! But with a directional outdrive, this has excellent steering going backwards, maybe even better than going forwards. The boat just follows the prop depending in where it’s pointing.
I have a 40 footer twin engine with a full enclosure (like a sail with any wind) and NO THRUSTERS .. this boat having bow AND stern thrusters??.. he should be ashamed to be anything less than perfect... gorgeous boat though...
Don't try what at home? This muppet takes all day, piece of cake, do it with single screw and no thrusters, plenty of room. And it's not "reverse" you twat it's astern.
Hard to tell if that's a propwalk issue or slight breeze off the port bow causing the bow to drift off to starboard. Undoing the port stern mooring line last doesn't help. Seems like he corrected it all without much fuss
My first thought here is to anticipate which way the bow will respond to the wind, as long as safe; let the wind push the bow to starboard once clear of the berth, back into the wind until safe to turn and then head off
He was doing fine until someone told him to do something different. A bit more reverse coming out and she would have turned fine. Then stop the boat hard, left and a squirt of prop wash would have done it. Alternatively, come in reverse and let the wind do what it wants.
So we just purchased a Beneteau 321 and took ASA 101/103. My gut feel is hard kick reverse, idle, hard to starboard and as far back towards the bridge as you can go then hard to port and away. Would this suffice?
Come constructive points here. 1/ use less power as you are encouraging slide (sideways movement of the vessel while turning. 2/ you could of put the stern to the wind that way the bow just follows, then they could of reversed out of the row. 3/ The boat came out slowly which let the bow go to starboard, if you have crew to walk the bow out and keep it close to the pontoon that would of helped. glad he got there in the end but my word it took some work.
There were quite a few different ways of getting out of there safely. Letting go, sticking it in reverse and hoping for the best, was not one of them. The Westerly owner was lucky too.
Would have been nice if propeller effect were taken into consideration. For proper manouvering it is indispensable to know whether the propeller in question is left- or righthanded, and what effect this will have on your intentions.
Great video, sir. I've just bought my first boat and this video is very helpfull. Rulan already ordered ! Great accent by the way. Slow as Pro. Love it.
"Delta Lady" is a Trader 575 Sunliner, twin Cat 700hp, hydraulic bow & stern thrusters. The publisher of this video does not realize that it does not take much to turn a twin screwed yacht when there is plenty of space and hardly any wind. But worse is their comment about the skipper who briefly leaves the helm after putting the engines out of gear. A skipper does not "disappear in the middle of a manoeuvre to check emails", that's not a joke but an offence against the professional skipper who took the boat to Spain.
Absolutely. She's a big girl. I do most of my manoeuvring from the flybridge and I'll do much the same as this guy.. All looked a pretty textbook turn to me..
I was working on my binnacle, removed the wheel, oiled throttle and shift cables etc. It was a nice day so after I reassembled the binnacle I decided to go sailing. (solo on a Catalina 36) Started the engine and cast off. As I walked toward the cockpit I thought something's not right... couldn't figure out what and I'm drifting backwards so no time to figure it out. Put the engine in reverse and Holy Crap! The steering wheel was still in the V-Berth!! Managed to throw it in forward gear and shoot back into the slip as if I planned it. No harm done. And no-one there to film it. 👍
@@OHFORPEATSAKES Great story😀. My point exactly …..anybody who has spent time at sea or on boats knows your going to have ‘oh no’ moments no matter how competent you may be.
