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Can you put your bank details up please. I’ve got £1500 for you 😅 😂 And if it works for you, then I’m going to do it too! I really do NEED a Kraken 44! 🤣

My wife reckons she’s the captain too! What’s the app you’re using showing the tidal streams?

Great video. I haven’t even got a 349 but couldn’t help watching it! (Must be the engineer in me)

Cost aside and even cause aside, I’m just glad that you found it.

we have just spent a month sailling with an autoprop after running a folder for years and a fixed 3-blade before that. Totally transformed motoring and especially motor-sailing performance. Very nice to see a product that fully lives up to what the manufacturer says, if not exceeds it. Kicking my self that I did not change earlier.

Good on you my friend. This is a great effort. Thank you

why nobody thinks to post a video on very hard tight dockings? many boats have to dock front or rear ended with boats either side with tides rushing out and in and strong wind

As an engineer. Great explanation!

Round Ireland :) great video

I am finding the buoyage rather confusing. The starboard and port marks in the channel going over the bridge seem to be reversed? I dont get it, although i havent got the chart so i could be misunderstanding your approach? Anyway thank you. James

neat!

There are various explanations for "prop-walk", but I don't think that the difference in water pressure at a different depth of 30 cm is large enough to explain this phenomenon. I think the following physical explanation describes the phenomenon more accurate. The prop pushes the water in a circular motion (clockwise or anticlockwise) and also pushes a water-stream forwards or backwards (depending on the direction of the propeller). The water-stream is equal to prop-wash and the prop-walk only corresponds to the circular movement. The circular water movement and the generated water pressure is more or less the same in all directions and decreases steadily depending on the distance from the propeller. The difference in water pressure at a depth of 30 cm is ridiculously small. But what makes a big difference - and this is a more accurate physical explanation for prop-walk - is that the circular water movement encounters resistance below the hull, which builds up a higher water pressure that pushes the hull either to port or starboard. This also means that every prop generates a prop-walk in both directions (starboard AND port) depending on whether the propeller is rotating forwards or backwards. The difference is, while moving forward we do not notice the prop-WALK because the prop-WASH on the rudder is many times greater. Maybe we both are right or wrong with our explanations and maybe in anear future somebody will make a study about this topic. Cheers a.h.

nice video, very informative. Thanks for that. It seams that this instructor like to teach the hard way. 😂 There are a lot of advantages to do it the opposite way, especially with modern monohulls. 1. Much easier and better control while steering stern-to against the Wind to the first buoy. 2. Easier to pick up the windward buoy from the stern. 3. With two stern-lines from both cleats attached to the first buoy (windward) you have a perfect controllability of the vessel to pick up the second buoy (leeward) from the bow. 4. Drop the buoy and leaving the harbour much easier. Disadvantage: The wind is blowing into the cockpit, this can be annoying.

Have had a few nightmares in my Halmatic 30 going aft out of the berth.....lol. Best part is learning everytime, thanks for the tips will try this wee cheat.

Very helpful video. Thank you for this. I am just about to put into practice what you have advised for a single engined outboard on a small (24 foot) catamaran. We are really tight into the pontoon in Torquay Council pontoon so very little space fore and aft to manoeuvre or swing. Also we have an overhanging dinghy on davits so I think I will stick to using your first bow method to get out. Any extra tips for a catamaran as you said that you had also had experience with cats?

Another great video with more good tips about using Port Erin as an alternate destination considering the wind, and the advice for anchoring safely. Im glad you got to see a small sample of the island and if next year permits, I'll be more than happy to give you both a few days to show off a few more of the sights. Have a safe onward journey (I'm late, so your next video is already waiting for me 😊) Cair Vie

I'd ask to be moved two down on the downwind side.

Brilliant idea. Need to test this tonight!

Useful video. i think my preference would have been to rig the bow line as a bridle and then pay it out whilst the helm went astern until about 4-5 feet off the other buoy, then made it fast - head to the stern and then use the engine power to get close enough to rig the stern line and centre the boat.

😅😅 tosh

I use bowline but snub on middle cleat on pontoon to stop forward movement then bring it to bow cleat tie off quick husband throws stern line, I tie off quick . He steps off and does final tie off and spring lines

cherry picking easy scenarios - not good. Mid cleat line first is great, unfortunately, it has to be executed very fast and you have to have a cleat exactly where you can fit your boat. How about a scenario that did not seem to occur to you. A bow line and engine forward with rudder hard to port? This will hold the stern to the dock, to give you time for the rest of the lines.

Could you do a video navigating round Dodman’s please? Experienced friends have advised me against going round until I get more experienced. Then I understand the currents into Fowey can be a challenge too?

As a single hander, not a task I fancy.

Acetone and CIF for bad ones. Any decent marina boss shouldn't allow metal shackles on cleats as they will damage the clear (as well as make a racket like you say). The soft shackle is a brilliant use. Your channel is excellent. One of the best practical and 'real' outlets.👍

looked liike great sail weather not choppy at all looked like the waters i would look for to sail

Thank you

Wow that is not how you deal with fore and aft mooring. So funny to watch. You carry floating rope so you can approach each buoy individually, so simple.

I’m not a sailor but I did work for British Waterways and yes there are plenty of idiots on boats both inland and offshore!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Very interesting - definitely one to squirrel away for future reference I think. Thanks for posting

Not much water there at low esp. Springs, so watch your draught. Fowey is much easier, ir anchor outside the harbour. It is in fact even trickier than this chap made it look as there are sometimes more fishing and shallow draught motor boats in there and not much room for errors. One to avoid in anything over 10knts of wind.

Wow that was a faff 😂 Great explanations though!

Thanks 👍

Thanks another interesting lesson, quietly logged away for when its needed . Thanks 🙏

Much respect on your chosen route!

So glad I finally waded through the recommended YT faff and found a proper sailing channel. You should be #1 on the algorithms. Keep content coming.

Nice rant. When the range is active the range boats are out and about. They engage with all the yachts and ask them very nicely to move south, as you did reading the charts etc. if the range is active. Reeds also gives the range control phone number to check if they are active. If the range is not active its not necessary to stay out of bounds and it saves a lot of miles.

you lost me the minute you mantioned tax payer funds, this is about so much more........................

In the last 5 years I've done about 20 trips in Croatia and Greece (always on charter boats) and have never seen the OXO in use. Don't get me wrong, I think the OXO is a good alternative to the conventional method (I always tell inexperienced crew members that they can also do the OXO if in doubt), but the fact that Europe's charter bases insist on it is just completely wrong. ;)

I been sat on ranges waiting to shot. Nice when the sun is out, not so when it’s raining

100% agree. It's all too common for cars and lorries to get stuck in dead ends, under low bridges, etc, due to typing in a destination, then trusting the SatNav without checking the route. Maybe the M.O.D. should authorised the RAF to do a bit of low flying practice in the area then shrug their shoulders if there are any complaints 😂

No stress just fun ,over and over.🎉

Question. I have been sailing in France / uk near the channel and some marinas are on rivers where the current wants to push me down onto my neighbor. I usually dock stern first but I have found it easier to leave when I have have docked bow first because the boat gets narrower as I pull out. I warp the boat a bit out of the slip but I need to use a decent amount of power to avoid drifting down. Which is why I always dislike it when people attach tons of stuff to their sides such as motors and solars panels and bbqs.

Was there for a few days. Loved it. Grabbed a ball, hiked and then sailed off to fowey.

My lord... thank you for the video, but common MFG's let do a lil bit of coding to make this easier.

Thank you so much for this video. I have been trying to download my Navionics Routes from my IPad to my Simrad GO12 XSE for a week now with no success until I saw this tutorial. Finally the files transferred properly. Thanks again. Best Regards from Bob in Canada.

Hi! Thank you for the video, I find it very useful! I just don't understand for what reason does the boat's bow at the most right side going more to the port? Shouldn't be opposite? Shouldn't the bow go more to starboard side because the mooring was made fast at the starboard side? You're explanation is highly appreciated! Thanks a lot!

There is .2 knt of current

Thank you

Docking stern to, berth is on starboard, at the end of berth there is a perpendicular concrete wall with steel structure . Backing up with prevailing wind on bow , I can be blown on or blown off the berth and pushed every time on the wall. I am single handed most of the time .! 😮 Have you got a cheat for this situation That can stop the boat and push me on to the berth. Peter