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I just saw this superyacht in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua (October 2016)! It boasts a flag from Marshall Islands now.
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this captain isn't very skilled. pretty weak maneuvering skills in good weather conditions
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I guess it's a sweet ride but I'd much prefer a smaller yacht that I could just get on and go without a crew.
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I wish I could be the captain of one of this beauty one day
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Too much pussy footing around. He had it lined up and all good but then appeared to be grandstanding of something and he lost it.
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I think a professional might call this a bit "sloppy". If the vessel has bow thrusters, as the swing indicated, then she had too much leeway or sideways movement that remained unchecked prior to "slotting" straight astern; hence the heavy fending on the starboard side. Despite that, it was not too unreasonable a docking, but low scoring in potential precision. There'll be other occasions perhaps, when it's done with fender parties remaining on idle standby. The deckhand aft, (who threw the heaving line) had his eyes on the fender party and not on his job and it's function - to secure a mooring line at the earliest, most apposite opportunity. He went back to sleep for a while before lobbing the line a few metres more upward than forward so that the weighted bag (ex monkey's fist) just made the quay, and the bulk of his "distance feeding" coils went into the drink and the encroaching propeller area. We waited some more while the docking crewmember had to haul most of the heaving line out of the water before grappling with the eye, strops and shackles of the mooring line. Two out of ten from me I'm afraid. That, because zero out of ten would merely have had to be a scratch or fender track on the neighbouring yacht. And that was too near at hand. The two points are largely for the shoreside crewmember who acted like a normal sailor might. An efficient deckhand would have had that stern line fast, and minutes before it happened here. A little gentle heaving on the port quarter aft would have been available if and when required and therefore reduced fending on the starboard side. What may make this worse is that a yacht like this may have sideways thrust systems that in calm waters like this, and with use of rudder and main engines, such vessels can spin on a sixpence and move like a crab - sideways, which would give no excuse for much of anything less than perfect positioning. There was also a backup heaving line held by a hand who appeared to be solely to back up a shortfalling or off target throw. I thought that was funny. Observation over.
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Hand the ropes off!!!! If you are going to wait that long, step and do it yourself!! I would be ashamed to call these people 'crew'.
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PREPARE TO FEND OFF
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FIRE THIS CREW NOW - AMATEUR HOUR .. WTF!! Makes me mad watching this mishandling of the vessel and - hey are you a retard? throwing Heaving line at 1 meter!
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should go one idea to Port (transverse) in order to avoid the closing with the yacht on the STBD. Otherwise good control...
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Bit of a tight squeeze on the right.
7m 26sLength
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