Lessons from a Failed Maneuver: Understanding the Impact of External Pressure on Skippers 

Dear @maesjanjaap I followed the sailboat maneuvering courses in Nieuwpoort. One of the most important advice they give is : do not listen to the people yelling orders from the dock, especially in the Mediterranean area. This is one of the most useful advice, and this is aligned with this video :)

For sure you need to focus on your Captain and the Captain need to focus on his task, but I need to say that some skippers they really don't care about the problems they will cause by doing random things, and I don't talk about mistakes, I talk about unwillingness to listen when they clearly have no idea what they are doing just because of their ego and not because of stress or panic. With some skippers we get very highly alerted here in Greece but thats another video coming

very windy - Algarve...

@@OGillo2001 Certainly Lagos

I appreciate the comment captain

Coincidence...but if you send me a video asking for review I would be glad to do it

I appreciate it! 🙏

Appart from weekly courses I very rarely do just charter trips. I do it only for people I know will appreciate my effort

Very accurate comment

There is two important factors that makes a car different to a car: if no speed no steering (except catamarans and bowthrusters, and maybe some blade spinning rotation effect which is small) and the more important difference is that boats steering delays. If you turn the steering wheel in a car, the car will instantly change its direction and in a boat it means that you just aplied a rotating force to the hull which will rotate eventually and it's shape will give a force which will change your direction. It takes time, the slower the speed the longer this time, so that's why you need to be calm, and know exactly what your boat will going to do when you rotate the steering wheel in a situation, you have to know how long you have to wait instead panicking if the boat doesn't turn instantly when you spinning the wheel in fear.

I do my best for my fans😎

There are no people dedicated for this task but in Greece, if you speak to a Greek professional skipper, he will do whatever it takes to help you

@@epicnavigator we are trained sailors. However, never sailed in Greece. Where do we find you for a short training on Aegean sea and the anchor mooring exercises? Thank you in advance. Balazs and the crew

@@balazssalacz7763 You can send me message in social media to arrange training. I am based in Athens Greece

@@epicnavigator sorry, I only have Whatsup. No FB, no social media. So how do we find you, please? Efaristo. Balazs

@@balazssalacz7763 my Whatsapp +306943936083

Thank you! Yes I do courses, Send me a message on social media below or contact with Whatsapp

Where are you now? We can give it a try together

@@epicnavigator that would be grate, I'm in pilos..

I always try to be polite with everyone because it is encouraging people to comment so other people get the information they need but there are moments that I cannot really accept this kind of toxicity and misguiding. You came, you watched the video, you comment, you say that people should not get information from the video (exactly what you did) and you encouraging them to read books about maneuvers and then go and test them. Tell me now what should I think about you?

Better soften your opinion a little bit, especially when you come to Greece. We are very well known for our hospitality and how helpful we are to all the respectful visitors from overseas and their failure is our failure as well. Much love from Greece

0:03 ​​@@epicnavigator in England we have a saying: you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink. I think the whole point of your video was lost on @serhiy34

It's that bad...with the proper training it's probably the best place in the world to practice your skills

@@epicnavigator Bloody evil place! Evil weather!

@@epicnavigator Aha, I see you are Greek? These island chains have seen navigators since the dawn of civilisation. If I understand correctly, the sea floor is littered with wrecks from as early as 2000 BCE ? I am genuinely fascinated by the history of navigation and trade in the Mediterranean basin, but especially the Aegean. One thing I was looking at recently was whether the various regional winds and storms are the same ones today as 3-4000 years ago? And were there any tricks early navigators had to survive them, or did they just trust to luck? The storms and shipwrecks are a central topic of all the Greek myths. Fascinating stuff.

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If the wind push you to the bows of the other boats then you don't have a lot of time to react and it happens all the timw

Anchor and windlass is at the bow, so this is what you do to perform a "med mooring".

As they said, in Greece we do med Mooring, in other countries you see more "bow first" docking that is not necessarily easier though

I can respect every opinion and also I can understand that if something makes you sick then you can either stop watching it or get some medication

@@epicnavigator did it ever cross your mind that I might be one of the boat owners who has to deal with charter guests that don't know how to control their boat ? We normally stay on anchor for this particular reason, but even there we get confronted by charter boats, that don't know how to anchor, end up hanging on your anchor chain or even pulling your anchor chain out while we are on the shore. We do have an anchor marker buoy to indicate where out anchor is, but that does not seem to bother them. They have no clue what that anchor marker buoy is for. We have had people tie up to our anchor marker buoy, even when it clearly states 'this is not a mooring buoy' It is nice that companies want to make profit by renting out boats, but is it too much to ask to check whether these people have a license, know how to do a Med mooring and know the Colregs ? You cannot rent a car without a license, but you can rent a 60' sailing vessel without any license whatsoever. Last year in Sifnos I had to swim to a sailing vessel in order to take control of it and bring it into a berth after the charter guests (man and wife, 58' sailing yacht) had gone into a brain freeze when they realized they could not maneuver their boat at all when they entered the port. They were just drifting into other boats. We have had our fair share of damage already and I know first hand that charter companies simply point to the charter guests. The charter company refused to pay, so in the end I was paying for the damage their clients caused to my boat. So, you may be angry that I made my comment, but instead you might accept some responsibility by acknowledging the fact that there are loads of people who are allowed to go out with a boat, when in reality they should not be allowed on the water without a licensed skipper (provided by the charter company) onboard.

@@davedavids9619 I respect every opinion and I am really sorry for all the trouble you are having and trust me on that, every boat owner have to deal with that...this is the seaman's life. I will kindly ask you though, not to use the anchor marker buoy, its something completely useless and it only creates more drama, as you already mention

@@epicnavigator this is not the seaman's life, this is the life charter companies, looking for quick money, are giving to us. We should not accept that low standard, we have to get the authorities and insurances to start enforcing regulations. Not a single person, without a license should be able to rent any boat and take it out to sea. It is just like renting a car.......you need a license. No license ? No boat or you hire a captain. For the overall safety on the water it is also better. As for the anchor marker buoy, it has a double function. Not only does it identify where my anchor is, making it easier for others to avoid crossing anchor chains (some do need some additional encouraging to avoid our anchor), it is also a means for me to be able to get my anchor out if it is stuck on the bottom for some reason, behind rocks etc. The only thing I need to do is get that line and pull my anchor out. The first rule in anchoring will always remain to anchor safely, which means you will not become a hazard to yourself or a hazard to others. Just because you want to be in an anchorage does not mean you can be there. If the anchorage is full because you showed up late, you go out and find another anchorage or you stay out at sea. You have no birth right to an anchorage, hope you can agree with that. If you have ever heard of the admiralty you should know their manual of seamanship and you will also know that they prescribe an anchor chain length, in shackles, to be 1.5 the square root of the depth in meters. The RYA states 4 x depth, which is half of what the admiralty and IACS prescribe. Now, why do you think that is ? It is all to accommodate commercial enterprise. Only problem is that I used to work in the Coast Guard and have dealt with unsafe issues at sea for a very long time. Everything is fine until it goes wrong and then everybody suddenly understands. We know what is safe, but some will only act safe when it is too late and we all know the sea can kill. That is why we have certifications and that is why we should never shove them in a corner. I understand you are an instructor. I saw some of your other videos and you do know how to handle a vessel. But the instructors are the only ones who can teach new sailors how to handle their boat. If you don't do it........who will ? So am sorry, but I expect higher standards of an instructor. You are the person that should install safety in the minds of your students. You should not set them free just for commercial reasons. If someone cannot control his vessel, he or she does not belong on the water. May not like that statement, but lives are at stakes. If you don't believe me we will meet up one day and I will tell you a few stories of people who went out on the water and paid with their lives. And yes, I was one of the people who had to go out and recover them. So please, don't come and lecture me what a seaman's life is all about, you are barking up the wrong tree. You are lecturing a commercial life, that is something different. If you are truly a safety minded instructor you will know that what I tell you right now is true. If you still don't know, send me your e-mail address, i will be back in Greece (Corfu / Preveza) by mid October (currently in Croatia with our boat) and I will be more than happy to meet up. You are a good instructor, you know how to handle a boat, now make the last step to installing that safety minded behavior in whoever watches this channel. Just remember: 'when safety is your enemy, accident is your friend' Take care.