You almost make it look like you know what you're doing capt! 😂 I hate the people who thought it was a good idea to make these canals that are barely big enough to get a boat in under it's own power safely and then we have to tow boats in/out of those places. Great job as always!
Guiding the customer's boat out of that skinny, windy canal involved amazing skill. I was also amused when you got out and pushed off. Nice job, the customer's boat never touched a thing, that's the way to do it.
You definitely can’t touch anything in that canal, if you look closely it’s all I beams for lifts, bolts overly sticking out of seawalls, or best case fiberglass lol
I try to do everything I can to keep the towed vessel in the middle, sometimes that means mine can't, and I have to reposition myself once it's past the danger..
Wonder if running two lines to the towed boat would help in a tight channel to keep it in line, one to each forward cleat? I know nothing, just throwing it out there. Absolutely love watching your work, from Kelowna, British Columbia.
A bridle will help some, but sometimes I prefer a single line just easier to work with when you have to slack the line for a sharp turn, a bridle will catch on the anchor.
That looked so annoying-OMG I would’ve been freaking out doing that.Great job man…was curious-I lived down there for a while back in the early 90s-where did you start that tow? Was that back off of Kanner Hwy/Tanglewood trail? My old business partner lived on a tiny canal like that and it took forever to get anywhere from there.Thanks-I enjoy your channel and seeing the Stuart/Jensen Beach area
I know Florida has some narrow canals, I lived in an ocean access deep in Hollywood off the Dania Cut Off and south of Sheridan and East of 95. The canal my house was on was on a much wider portion but there are some very narrow ones like this, but with low bridges.I live right on the Dania canal now. Where was this neighborhood?
If you’re just going fishing around the lights up the river, or letting the kid use your boat it’s probably not too bad, but running to the inlet or offshore it would take a lot more time that I would want..
@CaptainRetriever you create a pocket on the back of your boat that the bow or nose of the boat being towed is pulled into with wiggle room. It's the same thought as a barge with a V notch in the stern of the barge a tow tug puts its nose into it with tow lines coming off the stern of the tug connected to either side of the barge. And the tug can push the barg. They are mated and they both move together with no pivot. For you it's reverse engineering where the notch is at the back of your poat and you pull the boat being towed into the notch behind the outboards, with enough wiggle room to pivot like an 18 wheeler. And if need be you can wentch out the line a little letting the boat being towed fall behind a little depending on the situation Weld a V wide V and stick a tire in the closed end of the V with one on either side " inside " of the V , I guess it would be more like a U where the left and right side of the u is angled like a V. Giving room for different size boats and wiggle room
@@anthonymiller7992 My problem with that is you lose maneuverability, an 18 wheeler steers from the front with a pivot point, if he had to steer from his rear wheel it would do the same thing. You could accomplish that in reverse, have a notch in the bow of your boat. Pushing with no pivot it would be too long with some of the hairpin turns. It may work slightly better if theres more space between the engines like with a catamaran, but ours are all right next to eachother.
