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Σωστά τα έκανες λάθος 😂! πολλές φορές από κούραση δεν βλέπουμε σωστά τα δεδομένα.... Χωρίς λάθη δεν μαθαίνεις εξάλλου 😊. Μια εναλλακτική θα ήταν ένα σκοινί στην πλώρη του καταμαράν αφού υπήρξε και άνθρωπος εκεί διαθέσιμος μέχρι να πάρεις το ρεμεντζο. Καλές θάλασσες και σε ευχαριστώ για το πολύ καλό βίντεο!!!

verry epic..

I'd skip the fish eye scope on the camera mate, totally skew the scen.

Thank you for the briefing. Although you did some mistakes you did extremely well to keep calm and control the situation and get the boat back in place. Thats a sign of a professional😎

For a completely stress-free approach, could you also have come in alongside to the dock bow into the wind first, prepare the Stb stern line, take the lazy line, and then just slowly move the boat to its final position? Or is the danger too great that you catch one of the lazy lines with the prop, so one should never come alongside in these kind of docks?

less than 60ft, no high coachroof.

nice job

Respect! I watched already some of your videos before but because of this one, I subscribed. I also had an incident while docking just a few days ago. The dock hand just didn’t tie the windward line we threw. He insisted on first taking the mooring line (underwater slime line). The wind caught the bow, the stern scratched the dock and the bow crashed into to boat next to us. It just goes to show that even with 40 years of experience, things can (and will) go wrong. Thanks again for being confident enough to also publish failures!

Thank you. Mentally I review every docking manoeuvre and, truth be told, in the majority of cases there’s an improvement to be made. It is reassuring to see that way more experienced captains go through a similar experience.

Nice video, we can learn reading and practicing but we really learn from the mistakes. Congrats.

Thank you very much for posting this video. There are lessons we are all learning all the time, this helps us all to improve.

I thought of two things, why no anker dropping? and why not instruct one of the three mates bow to hand a line to the guy on the catamaran? Ditch the bow thruster all together in the later example.

Firstly, I’ve seen worse on a calm day in croatia, so no worries. I miss the boat characteristic ,,factor’’ about the video, as far as I can tell it’s most likely a dual rudder sailboat with a clockwise rotating prop, which is the worst you can have in this situation. When you stop the boat, the bow drops not only because of the wind, but because of the propwalk pushing the stern to starboard. That’s why things go bad so fast, and the more throttle you give to tighten the line, the more the bow drops.

the left rudder seems to swing a bit while moving

ευχαριστω που μηρασεζεις την εμπιρια σου μαζι μας, bravo bravo, thanks.

Amazing content!❤

I really love this channel, it is great!

Καλησπέρα. Θα ήθελα να σε ρωτήσω κάτι μιας και είσαι σχετικός με την ιστιοπλοϊα. Πιστεύεις είναι εφικτό για κάποιον με μέσο εισόδημα σήμερα να έχει ένα ιστιοπλοϊκό σκάφος ή χρειάζονται τρελα χρήματα για συντήρηση?

Huge respect for your attitude and you being open about your mistakes. Thank you for the video!

Well Donezk and perfectly explained, trank you

Another fantastic video! Failures often teach us more valuable lessons than easy successes

Congratulations on admitting your guilt and taking full responsibility. sometimes the captain is too proud and blames the crew.

Thanks so much for the video! Hoping to take some courses with you in person when in Greece.

Sometimes it is like this. You get used to those maneuveres and it comes to the danger of routine. Thanks for also showing your mistakes and reminding me never to fall into routine. It's always better to be overprepared. In this case you simply could also have prepared a line from the starbord middlecleat and pass this first to stern. The vector against the crosswind is much better when you thrust fwd.

Thanks for sharing - a good analysis and well thought out. Please share with us how to put the yacht straight after the bow has been shifted by the wind. Also as many others I would be interested how to walk the "walk" the yacht upwind. More videos please, great work.

Well explained! And thanks a lot. One question: Once you attached the line to the bolard, how do you climb the boat to the right position? You make forward, but where do you put the rudder? Rudder to stardboard or to port? Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge

Το μεγαλείο ενός δασκάλου είναι να πει στο μαθητή του τι εχει κάνει λάθος ο ίδιος! Σε παρακολουθώ μερικούς μήνες γιατί θέλω να κάνω ένα 7ημερο με ιστιοπλοϊκό με την οικογένεια και πραγματικά έχω μάθει παρά πολλά πράγματα απο εσένα! Μόνο έτσι θα καταλάβω τι πρεπει να κάνω και δεν πρεπει να κάνω… Οταν κατέβω Αθήνα θα σε ψάξω να τα πουμε. Well done professor

Thank you. Could you please explain how to “walk” your boat upwind along the quay towards the catamaran if you had tied up initially against the downwind monohull?

Tnx, instructive. I find the fisheye Perspective makes it Harder tonsee what's going in.

What about going in sideways? There looks to be plenty of space. You could change to the upright position once you have a line to drive against. Or would you advise against it?

I appreciate you walking us through this. It's always a show of good character in my book, when someone is able to wear their imperfections on their sleeves, as they say. I suppose it's only human to sometimes have difficulties balancing routine and your own expectations against the reality of a specific situation. It's a good reminder to stay sharp and communicate. Thanks for the insight!

You're a mensch. Great teaching.

still great docking! looks like my best manouver haha

Thx 🎉❤

Epic!

There si no captain no board.

Ωραίος! Πάντα πίστευα πως είναι κρίμα με τόση θάλασσα και πλοία να μην έχουμε έναν γιουτουμπερ που να ασχολείται με αυτά. 👍👍👍

Πολυ καλη ενημέρωση και ειστε ο μονος που με εκανε να μπω στον κοπο να κανω ερωτηση γιατι ειμαι καινουργιος στο χόμπι αυτο...😊 Αυτην την διαδικασία θα μπορουσαμε να την αντιγραψουμε και σε ενα μικρο φουσκωτο 4,70m εαν εχουμε σκοπο να δεσουμε καθετα και με την πλωρη στο λιμανη? 😊

love your content

Speaking as a boating newbie, this video was incredibly insightful!

Letting go of the starboard stern line was the one most crucial mistake that created all this havoc.

the only thing u maneuvered in this video is your camera

I always say to novices I meet, when things start to go wrong, and they will go wrong, the single most important thing you can do is to neutralise your fore-aft speed. Boats cannot move very fast sideways. Trying to power away from the problem will often get you into a bigger problem. As the captain, I like to say there are three above me: the wind, the current and the ship. The wind is first in command, then the current, then the ship, then the captain. The captain must adapt his plan to fit and go along with what those above him are trying to do.

Omg! What a disaster..

I've never been on a sailboat but this was very interesting to me.

Definitely want to see that :)

Hes going going to having his lifejacket inflate when the toggle catches, but maybe he never leaves the marina above F3. I'm not stressed when sailing but these videos do my head in! The boat will seek the wind, he does not mention this.

Might be more impressed if the wind was blowing!

Fixing the Stern winwardline quickly and gear foward moderately would be a good solution but this shoud be briefed before the manoever