Docking Techniques Seminar

Any advice on docking twin ruder wide hull boats like class 40? It has no propwalk at all.

Thanks for these very excellent videos. I'm taking 118 from Joan G in MN next week, and using the vid to work thru your course notes. Even with many years of water under the bow, I still like the fact that I can watch your stuff, and renew or learn new. I suspect I will be back, many times. Maryland Sailing is definitely on my list of approved sailing schools.

Love this video. Any suggestions coming stern in, starboard tie only with another boat on portside, (no ties, posts to port), and having wind coming off the dock. I could only get this slip in my area, switching is not an option, only going bow in which I don't wish to do. We have a clockwise prop, Hunter 410. I've used the technique at 1:12:40. Trying to find the goldilocks angle position to enter where wrongway stern kick, versus bow falling off is a challenge. In light winds this works well, even though my instincts to centre the rudder early are wrong.

Thanks for your excellent help....For years, every time I entered my slip at Marina Del Ray, I always yelled "Stand by for a RAM" and you would be surprised how fast people appeared ready to help me manhandle my 42 foot Grand-banks on a gusty Day.

Very much and many thanks, Sir, for this great explanation and offering for free out here. I am heading into an app to practice these theories and soon in real life onto the water. Looking forward to it. So, a part of your spirit in here will always be with me when I am docking in for the first time. Wishing u a happy living and fair winds.
Kindest regards,
Efkan

Very Useful. Thank you Sir!

Many thanks, really helpful.

Awesome! You sir are an ace instructor. I thought I would never understand propwalk until I watched this video. You are methodical and you know exactly what a novice may be thinking which makes you intuitive. Thank you:)!

Really useful video, thanks a million. One comment though, from a Mediterranean sailor . . . . You guys in Maryland seem to think nothing of using the side of your boat in docking, eg when pivoting around a slip post during the 'water man's turn'. At sailing schools on this side of the pond we'd get eaten alive at sailing schools for doing that. Similarly I note you tend only to have a couple of fenders out on the approach side whereas I was always taught to put out every damned one, maybe 6 or 7! Just shows . . . there's more than one way to skin a cat! Thanks again.

Just what I needed

Great instruction. Very methodical. CaptainTursi confirmed a number of things I've been doing and I learned a variety of new techniques and tips. Thank you very much!!

Some great tips there thanks. To some off the unanswered questions below I'd recommend really thinking about how the wind at different speeds and directions affects the bow, and where prop walk will take you and try to come up with answers of your own. Any ideas that include higher speed or high power are higher risk... Thinking it out, then time on the water is what makes you proficient. I learn by trial and error trying different suggestions ha ha. Cheers.

Thank you very much. Much appreciated!

with no wind, what is the best technique to back out a sailboat from a slip when tied up to a finger dock to starboard side and another boat docked parallel on my port side?  When backing out, I must turn the stern to the right so the bow heads out of the fairway to open water.

Sir. Thank you for the video, some very good ideas there, well presented.
Could I ask one question? You say that most boats are most wind affected at the bow. If so, using a stern spring and reversing onto it to force the bow out with the wind on the beam or behind the beam night get the bow out, but wind would just blow it back in again when the spring is released. Would it not be more likely to be successful if you motor ahead against a bow spring and get the stern up to wind when being blown onto the dock/pier from the beam or behind the beam? Your three pronged wind arrow could be a little misleading.
Other than than great presentation.
Best Regards
Phil

Thank You, I looked like a pro my first time

I have the same question as Ed Lecco. Does the school post replies to questions?

My slip gives me about 8 inches on either side of my 28' sailboat boat, past the fenders, but we only have piling on the starboard side, and an old PT boat on our port, which we don't want to nick and sink. Your video showed me how to use that piling. Thank you!

Awesome video on docking techniques, liked it very much.

very good, very informative to seamanship subject!