How To: Use a Bow Thruster Effectively | Motor Boat & Yachting 

This is the most illustrative, easily explained guide I've seen. Thank you for this!

I have watched several of your videos and I am so happy you provide them to those moving up in boat and amenities!

what an amazing practical opreation.

Wish the weather was always like this!

Jon Mendes is the Bob Ross of yachting :)

In Montgomery Burns's voice, "Excellent." 🙏

Excellent video. Thankyou.

very educational and kept simple. brilliant to use the drone !

Nice unit. Nice boat also. Bow thruster would've made things much easier back in the day but didn't know about em. Had a 28' Trojan cabin cruiser. Wood lap hull. Smaller boat but a money pit.

Great video!

A+ great info and production.

Just the way you practice emergency procedures in an aircraft, go out to an open area where you won't bump into anything and practice and get used to the controls and how they react and feel before you use them in a confined area.

Thank you, that was very informative and told in an easy to understand way.

Dear Skipper John Excellent video

I think John Mendez just does these videos to show off his fancy boat.

Cool instructional video.

Very useful and educational videos. Thank you. Please make one video about boat thermology. All parts name and section name of boat . Full boat parts name please. Thank you

How does a single pilot (no crew) tie off a boat like yours alone? I am thinking that you are using the thrusters to dock off nicely when you have a crew to help you, but what if you are running the boat alone and there are no dockhands to help? I am concerned about the part of leaving the boat unattended to tie off the ropes.

Are there thruster options with green/red arrows on the controls reversed? In North America, it is "Region B" for buoy colours, so port is green and staboard is red. All I see on vessels is the Region A style.

Hi Jon, Another helpful video. Thanks. Any chance that you will be attending the Miami Yacht show next week? It would be nice to meet you. Paul

i dont even own a boat but i still watched the whole thing

Great video, thank you

WELL EXPLAIN THANKSS

Turn the rudder or sterndrive so the stern will power away from the pier when you set the throttle(s) in gear and at the same time you use the bowthruster to power away from the pier. Then you will move sideways away from the pier as if you have a sternthruster too. Just practice so you can learn how your boat behaves. Some may have strong engines and weak thrusters. Use only one engine if you have two ore more engines. And just remember that you will also move a little bit forward. I use this quite often and i always back the boat a little so I get some momentum backwards before i set the gears forward. Then the motion back will cancel out the slight forward motion you will get. Once again, every boat behaves differently so get to know yours first.

would be interested in your method for berthing a small boat (7 to 10 m) single outboard and no thrusters. My instructors have had conflicting techniques for this.

Can you please tell me the length of your motor yacht? It's a beautiful machine! Might be a bit much for my first one.

Every time I see videos like these, it reminds me of how poor I am. That is a nice boat.

Awesome video, thanks.

Thank great video.

Are thrusters electric or others

Which kind of boat you got there?

What boat is that?

I'm at a slight loss: Fairline offer a bow thruster as an option with their Targa Volvo Penta IPS boats, but why would one need a bow thruster if the boat's equipped with IPS with an EVC joystick? Surely the IPS/EVC functions do everything that separate bow and stern thrusters can do (and more!)

Can i use the thruster and the reverse to move sideway

🤔 what's the purpose of the bow thruster stick. When you have the IPS stick right there with all the functions?

a bowthruster for a small boot like this? means the owner cannot manöver! and i think this boot will have two engines, for what then a thruster?

I'm buying a 37 foot center console, 10 feet wide and the slip where I gotta put the damn thing is is only 12 feet wide, gonna get some thrusters installed on that

Good!

What boat is this

Which boat was used in this tutorial?

brilliant! :-)

How do you move sideways bow and stern using only bow thruster and throttle?

3:19 Someone said clear

Not quite understanding every word, but then I am an American. LOL

RU-vid Pro Staff out heavy on this thread.

What boat is this on?

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Just one thing: loop of the docking line goes on the dock cleat and you trim the line from the boat!

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What the hell is a "fruster"?

too much use of steering wheel...in port just use your engines

Gobba gool

he is wearing a life jacket messing around in a small area, i'm seeing a red flag here!

People should rather learn how to operate a boat without a thruster.

Who else owns a Yacht

Got enough fenders there? lol

Pointless use of thruster...there is no wind and no current...could have all been done by the mate. Wait...it's twin screws? Why even have a thruster?