How To: Berth Single Handed | Motor Boat & Yachting 

You make it look so easy. After a nice relaxing boat ride my nerves return when I try to berth.

Nice job! You're an excellent teacher! I appreciate the step by step logical progression - "well done Sir!"

These series with jon mendez are one of, if not the best, on youtube. Great instructor and videography. Thank you and well done!

Great videos! I like to have my fenders and lines out at all times while in a marina. If you have engine trouble or some other issue while in the marina, its nice to have them still in place. I pull them in once Im out of the marina.

Sorry, but that is definitely not the way how to single hand a boat. I've perfected this technique on a 33ft boat in the med; fist rule is to panic. Second rule is to mix up port and starboard engine lever. Third rule is to slightly damage the boat next to you. Fourth; always get yout hands cut up by the mooring lines (bcs. you're sideways to the dock and hence have to pull on an area of the rope which normaly doesn't see any use). Fifth; hug the marineros for their doubtful help (you hug them only bcs. you are more than happy to have finally secured the boat - never mind the swear words they used against you a few moments before). Six; always laugh at others if they get it wrong (also practise your look of contempt if you hear a bow thruster - if the maneuver was successful, you can always ad; "Well, it's a child's play using a bow thruster). Seventh; get yourself a beer and ask yourself is this can still be regarded as "recreational". Ahhh, happy boating.... ;-)

Absolutely enjoyed this video mate, Thank you

You are an inspiration to so many of us mere mortals. Thank you for all your strains and perseverance just to make us all feel so good. Keep up your amazing videos ❤❤

Great advice thankyou. Love that fairline.

Awesome Video!! Please share this with others!

very helpful as usual. thanks guys!

Great Advice as usual and great video... thank you.

you get to play on so many great boats, jealous I am lol. learning a lot from your videos, thanks Jon. Frank from down under

A pleasure to watch

When he does it everything looks easy but... it isn't with a yacht like that. Compliments.

I remember having to jump around like you are when I would go out by myself. The one year I was at the boat show I discovered this wireless remote control that changed everything. Now whenever I update and buy a new boat the first item I order is the wireless remote. This way even if I jump off and get onto the dock I still have full control of my boat. I have a 70 foot ocean Alexandria and she handles beautifully. The remote just makes things a lot better and help me not not to hire a crew. I am moving up to a hundred foot this year and the first thing I made sure of is that they can put a remote on it. I feel the enjoyment of owning a boat is to be able to drive it yourself. I love your videos look forward to watching more.

I came for education. I left with confidence. Thank you.

Good, thanks for sharing.

Very Good ... can't wait for automatic docking technology ... I have ZERO ego when it comes to this ... I will take anything I can get. I would use a virtual anchor to keep the boat in one place while I put the fenders out (GPS that locks the boat in one position), then I will use my remote control docking device so I don't have to run backwards and forwards and guide the boat in ... all the time sitting in a fold out chair with a beer in my other hand. I have already seen quite advanced stuff for automatic docking ... they have it for cars so why not boats.

Love this Fairline Targa open. My favourite is the Fairline GTO 63. Penthouse on water with the galley up and forward to port.

great videos...

Masterful!

film doing it in a force 6 in a long-keeler in a crowded marina, with the wind blowing you off the quay, at night, black unlit piles all over, heavily tidal, and the usual ropes trailing in the water trailing from quays etc, (and no soundings on the chart/almanac), all because some jobsworth says you can't moor there as it's closed for the winter. That's what you pros are for ;) And thanks for that, Cuxhavn, not a jot of help, no drinking water (they came and locked the tap specially) - all they did was called the police, despite us coming in for emergency engine repairs at what was clearly labelled as an "emergency mooring area" ;)

Just makes it look so easy. I struggle with this but only a single Bravo 2 stern drive on a 27fter 😅

Masterful

8:32 Nice looking trawler there in the background...any idea what it is?

When are you going to do a single inboard sub 30ft boat berthing on and off the pontoon.

Thanks a million, that's exactly the video i was hoping for ! That said, it seems quite some work to single hand the berthing.. Obviously it takes a lot of practice to do it but it's feasible. But without the IPS system i wonder if it even possible.

I thought 'single handed' meant doing all that, while holding a beer...

Great video...

You should add one in the same berth with a decent breeze on the port beam.

I notice before you turned the boat you had six fenders, then you went to remove some and you had three and then two. How did you train the fish to remove them without a spalsh? Will they put them back on when you come back?

Hi John Love the how to stuff any chance of doing a video re berthing in a marina a sub 30ft boat single inboard engine without the luxury of bow thruster Cheers Gary

EXCELLENT VDO, THANK U ... NOW U VE TO DO ONE WITH STERN FIRST

Nice. River Hamble? show us when the tide is going out like the plug has been pulled out of the bath :)

Is there a reason for not dropping the anchor while sorting out the fenders and lines, instead of letting it drift?

When taking the fenders in why didn’t you use DPS on the IPS to hold you in position? Is it not reliable?

is it worng i use the skyhook that i have on the boot when i do that

My friend takes his Dolphin saul boat out alone. I think taking out any type of boat over maybe 20 foot is really dodgy and should not be allowed Accidents happen even with the most careful and responsible people and having no backup onboard is madness Good video well organised next time though remake it pretend you trip hurt yourself and this would demonstrate 30 seconds is a miniscule amount of time when things go wrong

Can you please tell us the brand and model of this boat.

Try it in a 6-8 mile current like we have here.

lol, port ahead wtf\. i always go hard over port and reverse a bit. I also make sure the boats momentum is torwards the dock.

Twin engine with computer assist!!!!! How about single stern drive with no bow thruster?

Or just use skyhook if you have it to not drift away

What are the point of fenders anyway. Are they important

I’m curious why you don’t dock stern in? It’s really the only way we do it where I boat. Lake is very rough so the bow breaks the waves and many of the fingers are so short if you dock bow in, the cockpit in an offshore performance boat is outside of the finger.

I always 2 part my lines so I don’t get off the boat to tie or untie it when alone

Nice video but have a question. Why is the skipper constantly turning the wheel even in reverse? I usually leave the wheel centered and maneuver using just forward / reverse to guide the boat into slip.

Sad a boat that large does not come with a bow thruster as a standard

Imagine little actuated arms on the boat that grasp onto the cleats so you don't need fenders or rope or crew. Or side decks.

Stepping off the boat before it was secured isnt very wise? what if you slipped and fell in?

Who is model this yacht?

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a few lessons on tying a correct cleat hitch would not go a miss. MB&Y should know that at least

Do a stern to med style tutorial for this with lazy lines!

Yea it’s easy with a joy stick

My boat is too big for single handed operation, but it a pinch, I could do it because of the station keeping functional of the auto pilot is just that good.

I really do like your videos, they might just be the best of this type on RU-vid, but it would be perfect if we would see you making a real cleat hitch when you tie a line to a cleat. In my opinion, there is only one way to tie a proper cleat hitch and it holds the best, is easy to tie and untie and looks better as there is way less line on the cleats. How to tie a proper cleat hitch: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2CLt4BEBMRk.html

How long is the boat you're on?

I can reverse berth my 33 foot sailboat onto a finger berth with 20 knots of wind blowing me away from my finger and toward my neighbour. I do this alone often. Still, if this kind of video gets you views, good on you. Post another one in challenging conditions please.

Ha ha so glad no one around to see me mooring up last night and apologies to my neighbours, just a couple of scrapes and I put your davits straight again oops. One engine, no bow thruster and a gusting wind doesn't help when you're on your own.

Okay, now show us how you do it in 40 knots. :)

With twin engines, bow thruster, good vision and benign conditions, not hard to do. Like to see him berth a 50 foot yacht, with an offset engine, 20knot wind and rain, into a berth he's never seen before.

how can i do it like you? no way.

A 50 foot boat named "no stress" without a bow thruster specced. Ironic!

Slow is pro

50 feet without a bow thruster? Seems like a silly thing to get cheap on with this type of boat

Почему он передом паркуется, а не задом? Американец?

facile sur "un lac" pas de vent.....

You need bigger fenders man

After spring not stern spring Back not reverse Wind howling....BAAAAHAHAHA Bow line and forward spring tied off on the same cleat is a bad idea.

There is a Much simpler & easier way, which I have never seen power boat people use ~ but I'm only a poor simple Yachtie Sailor ( dont even have the shades ) 😂

You have no current and no wind . What are you talking about?

All these so called skippers only seem to be able to berth with twin engined stern drives. None of them seem to be able to berth a single engine shaft drive.

You didn't have a boat next to you. That wasn't fair.

I am 12 and I have Perfect this on a 60 foot boat , He doesn’t even know how to tie a proper cleat

What in God's name are you wearing? Hahaha!!

Single?3props😂

Never leave the helm unattended....for many reasons....especially for something as insignificant as bumpers which will need to be redeployed and will require leaving the helm unmanned again..viewers should disregard what this chap is doing here for safety and liability issues.

Just use the joystick, no need to confuse the average sailor.