Thanks for posting this video. Lex did a great job, and I can't see any sign of bow thrusters, so you appear to have attracted a number of "That's nothing!" trolls, who can't resist the urge to downplay the skill of a pilot like this, when they probably couldn't navigate their way through a bath tub. They even got numerous "thumbs up" by other know-nothings who don't know anything about piotage. Give Lex my best.
Yes this boat does have a bow thruster. You can see the symbol for it on the hull, you can hear it, and see the wash from it. If you look at other videos of this boat you can see the tunnel as the boat planes past the camera.
Perhap you were not, as others, saying that his piloting skills were dubious, but only pointing out that the video was hardly accurate in saying that it was "extreme." I, meanwhile, was rightly pointing out that the pilot's skills were good, from much practice, and you get that from going out there regularly and honing those skills, not watching videos & thinking you know something, like so many posers. You're right about skills being low in many. Good luck in your career.
Good job. - Way to go. Mind you, It's never easy but Mr Jones has twin Yamahas AND a bow thruster AND no wind. .. Now try it with cross wind and just a single engine!.
I wonder if you guys know the typical sound of a bow thruster. Obviously not! Make use of your senses guys! You can hear it all the time!! The mistake is that you expect the thrust to come off on port side. Which is not the case because it's not desired. Instead have a closer look at the bow when you hear the noise of the thruster then you can see the thrust in the water on starboard side. Because the skipper wants the boat reversing in as parallel as possible.
exactly, the reason wy you cant see the wake from the bow thrusters is becouse he is using it to prevent a collission with that other boat on his starboard side.
For all those saying this boat has a bow thruster I suggest you have a look at the manufacturers spec sheet. Absolutely no mention of any bow thruster. Still not convinced, just Google photographs of it out of the water, not a bow thruster to be seen on any of them. This was just good boat handling using twin outboard motors.
Jim Craig The international marking is a four bladed propeller inside a circle. Not 3 dots or whatever. I still see no indication that a bow thruster was used or any indication that one was used.
seawalcker There is nothing there to see, no wash from any thruster and besides, the helmsman doesn't need them. Look where the boat starts from. Its nearly lined up with the dock to begin with. Perfectly simple to finish the alignment with normal steering and engine management.
Just to let the readers know that this boat did NOT have bow thrusters, and it is only lame posers who claim otherwise. It was a nice job, maybe not extreme, but smooth and well done.
I had to dock a carver in a dock only 12 inches wider than the boat. The rudders were frozze hard over to port. 5 knots of wind. Never touched to sides.
My two cents: it ALWAYS looks easier than it is--and this one does not even look easy. Zero wind, sure no one said different, but still did you notice they had such good control Cap didn't even put guys on deck. For me, an admitted amateur, I put the crew on every damn corner-just in case, cause I'm NOT that good, but am a cautious fellow. In heavy wind, I'll bet even this Cap would put people out there--cause wind can shift so suddenly and better to have people at the corners and not need them, then the other way around. Am I right Captain?
I can see how you might misinterpret the wash but I don't understand how you cannot hear the bow thruster, the sound is very audible. The symbol is a white three bladed prop on the hull below the fenders. Do a youtube search for "Kingfisher 3325" then click on the 3rd video down and you can see the light shine through the bow thruster tunnel at 00:28 as the boat passes the camera. (I am unable to post the web link here)
To the armchair know it alls/ Admirals, get a boat and then a life and stop making yourself look pathetic. One day you may be as good as this bloke. He made a difficult tight situation look easy. Now that’s the mark of experience.
Yeah he did fine no doubt, but everyone does in those conditions. I docked my friend 1975 34 footer skeg rudder, single engine in 24 knots crosswind and 3 knots current a few weeks ago and nobody films that and put it on youtube.
At 0:35 you notice the bow stays in place while the stern rotates to port and that maneuver is impossible without a bowthruster. Even with twins the bow would move more than it did.
I must disagree. There is no wash from a bow-thruster, but wash from the main props going past the hull. The symbol for it on the hull? What symbol? Hear it? I don't hear anything that makes me think of bow thruster. Why would such a small boat have one, anyway?
I think they need a qualified Dock master.This boat no way should be there. And the Skipper handling this boat…. If it was my boat with a skipper like that, it would be his last hurra.
Since this argument persists, I'm trying to figure out HOW anyone can see bow thrusters 'clearly'? IF he used bow thrusters he would have been thrusting on the port side, NOT the starboard! All you are seeing is the wake from the reverse outboard engines. He would have had the engines turned all the way to port, causing thrust to be visible on the starboard side. NOT thrust on the starboard, he wouldn't have wanted the front of the boat that direction. THINK!!
that aint shit, twin engines with zero wind and zero current, i can do that in my bathtub, come play in my ditch the Mississippi river and try that with a 5 mph current and 20 knot side wind, then ill tell you if hes a captain or not
All well and good, but lets not start championing the man yet? It was on a lake with all mod cons, let him repeat the feat in an ocean harbour without bow thruster etc.
Yes. That is criticism. You have to "own" your comments, young one. I was much more upset with the idiots who criticized this pilot for putting the video up when he had bow thrusters, when 1) it was not the pilot who put up the video, but someone who happened to catch the parking job, and 2) the boat did NOT have bow thrusters! They you pipe up with "It really wasn't that impressive..." expecting others to agree with your dissing his parking job. Get it?
If anyone is interested, you can see the sunlight shining through the bow thruster's tunnel at 0:38 and 1:43 of this video of the same boat czcams.com/video/AkWcVIeIx34/video.html
Yes, it was criticism of his piloting skills, though not as foolish as the many unintelligent ones who kept harpings about the nonexistent bow thrusters. He parked it so smoothly that he was obviously experienced, which was what caught the eye of the videographer. I have defended him from unfair attacks, and then you came along, also dissing the video, and I reacted as if you were another childish poser. You might have mentioned that you park boats every working day; it woud add perspective.
Prove me wrong? How could you possibly prove me "wrong," when I only congratulated the pilot for a smooth docking? Are you going to prove that the video was a hoax? Get a life, please.
![Wind Docking [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OtC2FI81OuE/mqdefault.jpg)
Nice job at docking the 3325 Kingfisher.
perfect conditions with twin outboard motors absolute piece of cake!
He's driving that boat like a champ.
Thanks for posting this video. Lex did a great job, and I can't see any sign of bow thrusters, so you appear to have attracted a number of "That's nothing!" trolls, who can't resist the urge to downplay the skill of a pilot like this, when they probably couldn't navigate their way through a bath tub. They even got numerous "thumbs up" by other know-nothings who don't know anything about piotage. Give Lex my best.
Yes this boat does have a bow thruster. You can see the symbol for it on the hull, you can hear it, and see the wash from it. If you look at other videos of this boat you can see the tunnel as the boat planes past the camera.
Awesome now that's docking !!!!
Perhap you were not, as others, saying that his piloting skills were dubious, but only pointing out that the video was hardly accurate in saying that it was "extreme." I, meanwhile, was rightly pointing out that the pilot's skills were good, from much practice, and you get that from going out there regularly and honing those skills, not watching videos & thinking you know something, like so many posers. You're right about skills being low in many. Good luck in your career.
Captain Ron would be proud!
Good job. - Way to go. Mind you, It's never easy but Mr Jones has twin Yamahas AND a bow thruster AND no wind. .. Now try it with cross wind and just a single engine!.
Wow, that was impressive. Doesn't look like much current there but what do you do on a windy day? I would have to anchor up and swim to shore.
Expert helmanship, I'm sure he'd do as well with a single screw, good is good !!!
Great skill
I wonder if you guys know the typical sound of a bow thruster. Obviously not! Make use of your senses guys! You can hear it all the time!! The mistake is that you expect the thrust to come off on port side. Which is not the case because it's not desired. Instead have a closer look at the bow when you hear the noise of the thruster then you can see the thrust in the water on starboard side. Because the skipper wants the boat reversing in as parallel as possible.
exactly, the reason wy you cant see the wake from the bow thrusters is becouse he is using it to prevent a collission with that other boat on his starboard side.
Love that boat
For all those saying this boat has a bow thruster I suggest you have a look at the manufacturers spec sheet. Absolutely no mention of any bow thruster. Still not convinced, just Google photographs of it out of the water, not a bow thruster to be seen on any of them. This was just good boat handling using twin outboard motors.
You can buy and install bow thrusters to about any boat without too much trouble.. It does not matter how this boat rolled off the line.
It has bow thrusters. It has the international markings indicating them on the bow.
Jim Craig The international marking is a four bladed propeller inside a circle. Not 3 dots or whatever. I still see no indication that a bow thruster was used or any indication that one was used.
Peter Lovett Watch closely! And you will see it! you can even hear them all the time.
seawalcker There is nothing there to see, no wash from any thruster and besides, the helmsman doesn't need them. Look where the boat starts from. Its nearly lined up with the dock to begin with. Perfectly simple to finish the alignment with normal steering and engine management.
thats a pretty boat
Just to let the readers know that this boat did NOT have bow thrusters, and it is only lame posers who claim otherwise. It was a nice job, maybe not extreme, but smooth and well done.
I had to dock a carver in a dock only 12 inches wider than the boat. The rudders were frozze hard over to port. 5 knots of wind. Never touched to sides.
2 engine + bowtruster :)))
Look at the lower port side bow of the boat. It CLEARLY has the required markings indicating bow thrusters.
got the gear and knows how to use it.
My two cents: it ALWAYS looks easier than it is--and this one does not even look easy. Zero wind, sure no one said different, but still did you notice they had such good control Cap didn't even put guys on deck. For me, an admitted amateur, I put the crew on every damn corner-just in case, cause I'm NOT that good, but am a cautious fellow. In heavy wind, I'll bet even this Cap would put people out there--cause wind can shift so suddenly and better to have people at the corners and not need them, then the other way around. Am I right Captain?
@@Calvin-zm1ci night
I can see how you might misinterpret the wash but I don't understand how you cannot hear the bow thruster, the sound is very audible. The symbol is a white three bladed prop on the hull below the fenders.
Do a youtube search for "Kingfisher 3325" then click on the 3rd video down and you can see the light shine through the bow thruster tunnel at 00:28 as the boat passes the camera.
(I am unable to post the web link here)
Nicely done
Very well done ,But perfect conditions in wind it would get ugly fast.
To the armchair know it alls/ Admirals, get a boat and then a life and stop making yourself look pathetic. One day you may be as good as this bloke. He made a difficult tight situation look easy. Now that’s the mark of experience.
Now, the already-narrow channel is completely blocked. How would boats closer to the camera get out?
Maestro
I heard a thruster, but I did not see any bow thruster being used. Just a man that really understands walking his props.
Nice when you have bow thrusters... Good job!
No bow thrusters on this boat
Sunfadedlovejaded @ 0.55 you can see the thruster impeller wash...good job though, but not sure it's mind blowing.
Oh that. I thought the bow was in the back.
I should know, I take out me boat every Labor Day
@ Sunfaded...LOL
+Sunfadedlovejaded Are ya deaf?
Like a boss!
what torcan said is treu. its a tight fit but whit that boat it is like parking your car
Yeah he did fine no doubt, but everyone does in those conditions. I docked my friend 1975 34 footer skeg rudder, single engine in 24 knots crosswind and 3 knots current a few weeks ago and nobody films that and put it on youtube.
holy crap i remeber when my dad tried that in the elliot key campsite well lets just say it was 1000$ worth of gellcoat and fiberglass work
ya, thats tight
a good captain knows what he shouldn't try!!
Mit zwei Maschinen, Bugstrahlruder und Windstille...
Keine Kunst, mit eigenem Boot an seinem Stammliegeplatz darf man das können...
@Scott Armstead I don't get it. You can even hear the electric motor of the bow thruster...
At 0:35 you notice the bow stays in place while the stern rotates to port and that maneuver is impossible without a bowthruster. Even with twins the bow would move more than it did.
GET OUT LIKE THE OTHER GENTLEMEN SAID NO WIND NO CURRENT HERES THE 2 BIG ONES TWIN ENGINES AND BOW THRUSTER!!!!!!!! NICE BOAT ANYWAY !!!
I must disagree. There is no wash from a bow-thruster, but wash from the main props going past the hull. The symbol for it on the hull? What symbol? Hear it? I don't hear anything that makes me think of bow thruster. Why would such a small boat have one, anyway?
Nice job but if that small across him gets and bigger your going-to need a bigger slip
so true, thanks for the comment. yahaar
oh god,HAHA, we put the same thing, well, great minds think alike!!!
either way, nice job..
He looks like he hurt himself when he came off the boat?
didn't you all see the guy on back with the paddle he turned the whole thing
Nice bow thrusters
No bow thrusters, just good handling of two engines.
+peggyt1243 You can hear the electric motor pushing the bow thruster.
+Brantley Boyd
and see the waters churning from them
Turn up your volume! You can not only hear the bow thrusters, but also see the bow move.
At 0:45 you see wash from the thruster.
As only twin screws can do!
Lex "when we mess up and theirs a complaint we don't return calls" Jones, of Jones boys boat sales???
I think they need a qualified Dock master.This boat no way should be there. And the Skipper handling this boat…. If it was my boat with a skipper like that, it would be his last hurra.
boat fit fine. come to ny and see what tight is.
Yeah. A boat like that should be in a slip farther out .
I bet he have a Joy Sticker control
Competent but with two powerful out boards + bow thruster ( I hear it but I didn't see it....) .....
Neverthess less a competent manoeuvre.
try doing that when its windy
is it really 36ft long it looks smaller
Since this argument persists, I'm trying to figure out HOW anyone can see bow thrusters 'clearly'? IF he used bow thrusters he would have been thrusting on the port side, NOT the starboard! All you are seeing is the wake from the reverse outboard engines. He would have had the engines turned all the way to port, causing thrust to be visible on the starboard side. NOT thrust on the starboard, he wouldn't have wanted the front of the boat that direction. THINK!!
that aint shit, twin engines with zero wind and zero current, i can do that in my bathtub, come play in my ditch the Mississippi river and try that with a 5 mph current and 20 knot side wind, then ill tell you if hes a captain or not
+kanifkanif , I agreed current and wind makes much different.
I can do harder things with my single engine rc boat
I didn't see any thrusters...
Sorry that is 00:38 on the previously mentioned video
All well and good, but lets not start championing the man yet? It was on a lake with all mod cons, let him repeat the feat in an ocean harbour without bow thruster etc.
41 Morgan single inboard no bow thruster just a jogging stick
No Wind.
Manoeuvring boat with 2 outboards at zero wind is extreme?? This could be done waaaaay better.
Alen Estium then u do it
How is this extreme?
Wouldnt it be easier to just back out in the morning? You'd be heading that way anyways.
Yes. That is criticism. You have to "own" your comments, young one. I was much more upset with the idiots who criticized this pilot for putting the video up when he had bow thrusters, when 1) it was not the pilot who put up the video, but someone who happened to catch the parking job, and 2) the boat did NOT have bow thrusters! They you pipe up with "It really wasn't that impressive..." expecting others to agree with your dissing his parking job. Get it?
amateurs video & commends ..
2 outboard engines + bow thruster + 0 wind!!!!
it's a normal docking but not in any case an extreme docking!!!
Yeah. With 2 outboards and a bow thruster hell, with 1 outboard and a bowthruster. Try a twin inboard Selene 52.
I do that with a single screw drunk off my ass
He’s done that before.
You can both hear and see the bow truster, Truth Seeker....
But still, I would not try to jump behind the helm of that boat and do the same job.
Not bow thruster
I'm failing to see the bow thruster...
I was being sarcastic Capt.
This is an outboard boat with no onboard engines. What do you suppose is powering these (non existent) bow thrusters?
***** electricity
If anyone is interested, you can see the sunlight shining through the bow thruster's tunnel at 0:38 and 1:43 of this video of the same boat czcams.com/video/AkWcVIeIx34/video.html
Why all that boat on a lake?
+M Landers Depends on the lake.
+peggyt1243 Kootenay Lake doesnt need that much of a boat to fish...
I agree, man up and take it to the coast
what he saves on Moorage fees he spends on fuel.
None the less impressive docking maneuver.
Bow thruster, two engines, no wind or tide.....easy manoeuvre certainly not extreme... just a bit tight.
Bow thrusters????? There is no bow thruster!!!! All done with outboard stern motors, good job concidering the tight quarters.
Are you serious? You can even hear them firing
DaBrute DaBrute, you are 100% correct. That aside, the boat has bow thruster markings on it so even with the sound off you can see it has thrusters.
Yeah it does. At 0:35 The bow barely moves and with twins that is impossible without a bow thruster.
it's 33'
and add High Tide
What is so special about this? The boat has two engines and there is no wind or current.
...and no current!
wow not...he has a bow thruster my poodle could dock that
Not a single fuck was given inside that boat.
Yes, it was criticism of his piloting skills, though not as foolish as the many unintelligent ones who kept harpings about the nonexistent bow thrusters. He parked it so smoothly that he was obviously experienced, which was what caught the eye of the videographer. I have defended him from unfair attacks, and then you came along, also dissing the video, and I reacted as if you were another childish poser. You might have mentioned that you park boats every working day; it woud add perspective.
Parking or docking jajaja s no a car man s docking
Not to bash you dude but "Extreme docking " Really?? That boat is so easy to dock a little kid could do it! You're just looking for hits!
Park a boat !!!!!!!!!!
I thought people BERTHED boats
Another thick American
Prove me wrong? How could you possibly prove me "wrong," when I only congratulated the pilot for a smooth docking? Are you going to prove that the video was a hoax? Get a life, please.