SINGLEHANDED -- LEAVING THE DOCK USING MID-SHIP TIE
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- čas přidán 19. 02. 2024
- Singlehanded leaving the dock using a suggestion from a viewer -- the "Mid-Ship Tie." While my boat and the dock and cleats are not too well suited for this method -- it does have a lot of merit and I will use it in the future for sure. Thank you for the suggestion!!
Amazed by your willingness to capture this video and not give up trying different approaches.
Suggestion make the mid ship clear a loop and longer almost back to your stern cleat, but just short of it. Catch the first cleat on the dock with the loop. Then you can walk the boat fwd on the dock. When leaving you can set the loop on aft side of end most cleat with motor fwd and when you decide to leave you can simply pull back boat and realease the midship cleat.
Your starboard prop walk hurts my brain as I’m opposite. :)
Thanks mate. This one was a suggestion from a viewer and I wanted to give it a go. I think it has merrit.
Good ideas. Thank you for sharing those. One of the challenges on this dock is there are no metal cleats. They are 2"x4" planks -- except the last one on the finger -- it is a wooden plank T-cleat -- but, I could put a sling and carabiner on the plank which would make it pull with less friction. I have used the tactic of having the boat in forward gear on a single line while I remove the other dock lines. Some folks don't like to step off the boat with it in gear -- so the midship tie was one of the options that didn't have the boat in gear -- I wanted to try it out. Thanks mate.
I know right. This is my first boat with starboard prop-walk too!
Not only did the video not show how the mid-ship line was set up, it was pulled on board first and the final line removed was the stern line.
It would have been much easier to motor gently forward against the stern line and remove all the other lines completely. The mid-ship line didn’t do anything in this video.
Fair comments. Thank you. I'll endeavor to be more illustrative next time. And, yeah, agree -- I often use the "gently forward" technique and it works well. A few folks don't like stepping off the boat with it in gear, so suggested this technique to me, and I wanted to give it a go. I think it does have merit for some situations -- but agree 100%, given that I had to use the stern cleat, I could have avoided the mid-ship tie altogether if I had the boat in slow forward. Cheers mate.
I crew on a 60ft Oyster, we call this technique a spring line.
Actually I can steer that boat shorthanded and even singlehanded from any dock, no matter what wind or current does.
No way. I can manually move a 35 ton boat as easily as you can yours from the dock, so I wouldn't even think about doing that on a 60 ft. boat.
I love how you use all the different cameras and I subscribed .
Yep that’s what it’s called in oz we shorten it to springa like most of our words 😊
Ah ok -- interesting -- "spring line" I'll use that terminology in the future.
Wow. Much respect! Singlehanding a 60' Oyster would be very daunting at times I am sure! I would be intimidated!
My 26' Contessa had a 5,000 lb displacement and I could move her easily. This 38 Contessa is 16,000 and possible in no wind or current but gets out of hand in a hurry. - I had to improve my boat handling skills with the 38. Again -- much respect for handling your 60! Well done.
Thanks for the comments.
@@respecttherisk2022 Just remember slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Also having a bow and stern truster helps (a lot). I had to learn fast single handing that beautiful boat when the captain broke his toe and couldn't really be of any help when we need to dock. The most important thing is knowing how your boat handles in any given situation. Be aware of your surroundings and keep low speed, just enough to have steerage. And most importantly you don't have to do it right every try, there is no shame In aborting and try again. Actually that is the safe way to do it. Looking forward to your next video.
Good stuff, Captain. Nice to have some margin for error behind you!
Thanks for the note! Absolutely!
great video! clear explanations and all the thinking behind decisions you make. it would be awesome next time to carry explanations to how you turn boat and get out of dead end and what you are thinking about… do you go all the way out reverse? forward? turn? etc…
thank you!!🙏
Thank you. I have a video where I execute a 180 degree turn on the spot. A second video shows a 360 turn with a mast-head view. I affectionately call it a "Dime Turn" or turning the boat on a dime. I have used this in dead ends or for situations where I have a starboard turn, with a starboard tie, or vice versa to port -- I can go down the fairway do a "dime turn" and then execute a port turn with a starboard tie which is WAY EASIER especially single handed. Here are the links to both of them czcams.com/video/hrc77pjNlGw/video.html
czcams.com/video/xyRpCZtQiZU/video.html
@@respecttherisk2022 awesome!!!
I've been single handing my SanJuan 24 for years, lot people aren't even willing to try
Nice. Good on ya mate. There is a fleet of San Juan 21s down at my local reservoir in Calgary and I do sail on those as well on occasion.