Sailboat Docking - What you need to know 

This is by far the most helpful video on docking I’ve encountered. It also considered singlehanded options which I usually need to search for and there’s not much of them shared on youtube. The animation is slow and the creator is great at explaining things in a calm manner. This is the best channel about sailing in general. Thanks a lot ❤️

wow...this video has not enough views!!! Really helpful thank you!

Fantastic graphics 🎉

nice to see the demo done in fresh air. short and to the point

Excellent video! Some really sensible ideas here - like dipping the line for more control getting it over the cleat!

This is great! Sharing now.

great talk

Best video ever!

Superb. Very informative. A post graduate lesson.

usefull and well timed seeming as my engine now running will use this information to set up my journeys

Very well done! Thank you

Nice video. Very informative. I miss your live adventures

And another thing....😉. How about adding two additional more targeted vids to this good but generic one? It would be a series and generate much more traffic. Everyone hoovers up docking vids. 1. Docking approach strategies for open and also closed berths in the spectrum of cardinal directions of wind and tidal streams? Reverse or forward in the fairway, then whether to stop/change direction or go straight into finger. How to approach open fingers (you can see it) or closed ones (you have to round it) again in varying winds and streams. Maybe with plan B escapes. Version one of this would be in finger berths, as is this video. Later you could add hammerhead/side on berths. Then maybe European stern to (walls) type berthing in this different wind directions. 2. More on berthing line strategies (which first and second lines on for different conditions and crews). Blowing on/off or in/out. Maybe with cross tide/wind as in your example here. Eg. Blowing off? Get a midships line on the first (end) cleat whether going in backward or forward. So the 1. mainly for the skippers and 2. mainly for crew. Just subd

Very clever you two! Great instructional video! Hope you dont mind if I share it :) Stay well. xoxo

the stern line should be led to the aft bit on the dock cleat

Great video! How long did take for you take create this?

where can someone learn to make these maneuvers without risking property damage?

Good video. Audio is poor

It's a good video, but I completely disagree with your assertion that skippers are being "instructed" how they should Dock by marinas. I mean think. How likely is it that a rando in the marina office can trump a ships master? Think of the liability issues, should the manoeuvre go wrong. Hint: everything is always the ship's master's responsibility. No. Absolutely not. The "bows in starboard to" information is simply a description of which side to fender up. Not an order. You are simply being told that, in this berth, you'll be starboard to if you go in bows first and port to if you reverse in. If you interpret this as an instruction, you are constraining your berthing options and may precisely ring-fence the most appropriate strategies out and be left with failed docking by using the wrong approach. Conventions differ. In the UK it's practically unheard of to hear the prefix "stern in, xxx to....." But many many people do reverse in...... because that's the best manouvre for the current conditions and berth.

2:30 This entire animation sequence is wrong. The line is going to the wrong ear of that cleat. In one section, it's simply impossible that the line will hold at all. You absolutely MUST rework that animation. Terrible.