We normally set them as slips, but for that mid-cleat doubling the line to slip is not an option as the line is too short so the bowline is our backup.
Lovely sunshine! Great video. Had to spring off for first time on Monday with wind of 20 plus knots blowing us, Bavaria 33, onto dock and boats in front and behind. Yikes! Sprung bow in as you show but because of wind had helm hard over and a lot of revs, took a bit but eventually stern moved off. We said we must practise this in calmer weather a bit so that we understand how boat responds better. So your video is timely and we shall practise the same. Fortunately we got lovely help from fellow yachts Monday otherwise would not have coped!! Keep up the great videos please.
Brilliant training material, thank you. And there is something so graceful about a boat spring slowly round to get into the right position to slip the lines - all the more so if something pops up in the way and the skipper has to shift her back in to the pontoon.
We won't discuss the month in Tahiti when dad "patiently" taught my brother and me how to manually spring. Being small as an eight year old, there were more than a few times that I was pulled into the water while trying to maintain proper tension on the line. You made springing look as effortless as dad did. Well done!
Whilst we do manually spring, using the engine requires a lot less muscle as we do not feel like getting hauled off the side of the boat. Tahiti sounds like a lovely location to practice and I will bet the water is a lot warmer than Bangor 😄
Cheers ladies very informative video we have a Bavaria 32 Cruiser and have learnt loads about our boat from watching you guys - much appreciated and keep them coming 😊👍
Thanks Norma! We hope to get another couple of "how-to" videos done before the cruise south starts in April. We will do our best to keep them coming (and a Bav32 - great choice of boat 👍 )
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass looking forward to watching ur adventures and if Gaynor needs any wool to practice her crocheting let me know - I enjoy dabbling in all sorts of crafts 😊
Very informative video, we spring off all the time, especially in our lock as our home marina is a locked marina, and at busy times you can't always pick your side to moor up. Amazing how many sailors don't spring off though and get into all sorts of problems. As we have only been sailing for a year we are always interested to see how people do things. Great camera work too.
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass we are based at Shotley Marina in Suffolk where the Rivers Stour and Orwell meet. The rivers make good a training ground. It's quite busy with the container ships going to Felixstowe and cargo ships going to Ipswich plus all the pleasure crafts and ferries.
What Beverley really means is "we rarely spring using the engine method", we like you just use slip lines, for example in the video I say we just use the rope pulling method for going astern from our slip, but if you ever find yourself parallel parked with your yacht, it is a good technique to know about.
@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Well, that’s the plan. We’re planning to go over to Shetland and take it from there, Faroe Islands maybe 🤔 But we want to end up in the Irish Sea at some point if all goes as planned 😀
Thank you. Just wondering why you don’t use a slip line on the mid cleat also. I don’t think i would ever use a bowline on half a cleat too much risk of not being able to get it off
We prefer the small bowline because the distance from the stern to the middle pontoon cleat is too long to leave any effective line when rigged as a slip and our longer lines are a coarse 3 braid that does not slip as easily.
Funky start, thought I had started watching Kraftwerk video, VQOTW where do you keep all those fenders, I have a Bav 37 and can only get six in one locker
