Good maneuvering picking that up. Awesome to watch your way of doing it. And great for some late fall stoke as things are getting cold and the sailboat is packed away for the winter. Thank you for sharing!
I miss sailing when away but it is healthy to have a break from boat yoga, strange marina showers, and rocky nights aboard. It was easier on my last boat, catamaran, but I can't believe I lived aboard almost 365 for 5 years.
you're killing it man, great job, i'm jealous. this is similar to my first year sailing south from RI before i met you guys in the bahamas, alone, tired, living in foulies, challenged and happy.
I always pick up a mooring ball at the stern. Even with crew. As a skipper it means I can keep my eye on the buoy all the time. However, I will attach my mooring line to the ring at the bottom, not the top. So with crew someone just pulls the whole buoy on the swim step using a boot hook, and then I pass the line through the bottom ring. I use a mooring line that is already attached to the bow for that.
I really like the bottom ring trip. Reduces point of failure. Reminds me of when in brazil I attached to the top ring. Ball was not designed to hold the boat from the top. 1 minute later we broke free.
If you're staying in l'Aber Wra'ch head up river to Paluden, 4 visitors moorings €10/ night, perfect shelter in a beautiful village and only 2 km from good shops in Lannilis.
OK. What I have done many times i this. Run a warp from the bow cleat outside everything, to the stern cleat. Have a short line tied to nothing ready near the stern cleat, dangled OVER the pushpit safety rails. Take the long line off the stern cleat. Pick up the bouy in reverse as you did. Put BOTH the long and an end of the short line through the bouy ring and recleat the long line to the stern cleat. You now have both ends of the short line that is "slipped" through the bouy in your hand and you walk that bouy to the bow pulling it along the fairly tight long line, to the bow. You were clever here because you made sure to have arranged to be being blown off the bouy without my yelling, sorry telling you and so it didn't scratch along the complete length your topsides. Pull both ends of the short warp forward and around your bow roller and tie them off to the free bow cleat....thats your first mooring line. Go aft and remove the longline from the stern cleat... take it forward and tie it off to the appropriate bow cleat as the second line. Job done, no leaning over the bow or hooky more thingy needed. Also, stop saying booeee because we don't know what that is. Its a boy. Whatdya think? Its my invention but all the crews i meet are so stuck in their ways that they 😂prefer shouting and screaming the length of the boat at each other for multiple tries instead.
Thanks for your great reply. Love it. I will try that for sure. Very cool idea that I have never hear of. I wonder what second use I can have for the hook and moor? As for how I say bouy that will not change. comes with the passport. I lived in the UK for 5 years but I stuck with the home country. Thanks again. I love the idea!!
@@svcyclops I have sailed the Solent for years do yo know it? Also down to Guernsey and St Malo and the minkies les minquiers. Pool Dartmouth Brixham etc. Every year I say next year own boat.
Call me stupid, but why not approach the mooring buoy from the bow, move up slowly, shift into neutral and run to forward to attach your bow lone to the mooring? Try doing thar alone under sail, it’s great fun!
Dr mr stupid, you asked me to call you stupid. Grabbing the ball forward is used by tons of folks. I like the stern approach since the deck is lower. In the us the balls have floats with sticks the point up 3 feet. This makes the bow approach much easier.
Will do! In short cats are comfy but not fun to sail shorter distances. Also I bought cyclops to solo sail. Though the size was more manageable. That being said cyclops is more work than the cat!
Actually your technique is perfect! This is what professional skippers of charter yachts do when they have a useless crew who is there just to get sun-tanned and jump into the water, and they have to do everything solo themselves .... I've seen this many times and I even use the same stern-to + rotation technique when I sail with my girlfriend since in any case when I am at the helm and she is alone at the bow it is very hard to catch a buoy with the hook, unless the buoy is well equipped with a nice rope loop (typically not the case, especially in the Med). So ... great job!
Good maneuvering picking that up. Awesome to watch your way of doing it. And great for some late fall stoke as things are getting cold and the sailboat is packed away for the winter. Thank you for sharing!
I miss sailing when away but it is healthy to have a break from boat yoga, strange marina showers, and rocky nights aboard. It was easier on my last boat, catamaran, but I can't believe I lived aboard almost 365 for 5 years.
you're killing it man, great job, i'm jealous. this is similar to my first year sailing south from RI before i met you guys in the bahamas, alone, tired, living in foulies, challenged and happy.
Thanks buddy. I just saw your crew had a baby!
You did it! Never in doubt.
Thanks Richard! I have plenty to learn.
Great demo picking up a mooring ball whilst solo!👍
Thanks. Next year I will do a flash back on post a video how I used to do it with crew on my catamaran when sailing in the pacific.
I always pick up a mooring ball at the stern. Even with crew. As a skipper it means I can keep my eye on the buoy all the time. However, I will attach my mooring line to the ring at the bottom, not the top. So with crew someone just pulls the whole buoy on the swim step using a boot hook, and then I pass the line through the bottom ring. I use a mooring line that is already attached to the bow for that.
I really like the bottom ring trip. Reduces point of failure. Reminds me of when in brazil I attached to the top ring. Ball was not designed to hold the boat from the top. 1 minute later we broke free.
If you're staying in l'Aber Wra'ch head up river to Paluden, 4 visitors moorings €10/ night, perfect shelter in a beautiful village and only 2 km from good shops in Lannilis.
Thanks for the advice as I will return next year!
OK. What I have done many times i this.
Run a warp from the bow cleat outside everything, to the stern cleat.
Have a short line tied to nothing ready near the stern cleat, dangled OVER the pushpit safety rails.
Take the long line off the stern cleat. Pick up the bouy in reverse as you did. Put BOTH the long and an end of the short line through the bouy ring and recleat the long line to the stern cleat.
You now have both ends of the short line that is "slipped" through the bouy in your hand and you walk that bouy to the bow pulling it along the fairly tight long line, to the bow.
You were clever here because you made sure to have arranged to be being blown off the bouy without my yelling, sorry telling you and so it didn't scratch along the complete length your topsides.
Pull both ends of the short warp forward and around your bow roller and tie them off to the free bow cleat....thats your first mooring line.
Go aft and remove the longline from the stern cleat... take it forward and tie it off to the appropriate bow cleat as the second line.
Job done, no leaning over the bow or hooky more thingy needed.
Also, stop saying booeee because we don't know what that is. Its a boy.
Whatdya think?
Its my invention but all the crews i meet are so stuck in their ways that they 😂prefer shouting and screaming the length of the boat at each other for multiple tries instead.
Thanks for your great reply. Love it. I will try that for sure. Very cool idea that I have never hear of. I wonder what second use I can have for the hook and moor? As for how I say bouy that will not change. comes with the passport. I lived in the UK for 5 years but I stuck with the home country. Thanks again. I love the idea!!
@@svcyclops I have sailed the Solent for years do yo know it?
Also down to Guernsey and St Malo and the minkies les minquiers.
Pool Dartmouth Brixham etc.
Every year I say next year own boat.
Call me stupid, but why not approach the mooring buoy from the bow, move up slowly, shift into neutral and run to forward to attach your bow lone to the mooring? Try doing thar alone under sail, it’s great fun!
Dr mr stupid, you asked me to call you stupid. Grabbing the ball forward is used by tons of folks. I like the stern approach since the deck is lower. In the us the balls have floats with sticks the point up 3 feet. This makes the bow approach much easier.
No way I could do that under sail with cyclops.
@@svcyclopsto each his own,
I just lack the control. I have done it on a 25 foot boat.
What catamaran did you used to sail?
An antares 44. I have some videos from that time not on you tube. May be I will post them. Interested?
@@svcyclops sure, but mostly want to hear you talk about the move from catamaran to monohull. Not a common one!
Will do! In short cats are comfy but not fun to sail shorter distances. Also I bought cyclops to solo sail. Though the size was more manageable. That being said cyclops is more work than the cat!
Actually your technique is perfect! This is what professional skippers of charter yachts do when they have a useless crew who is there just to get sun-tanned and jump into the water, and they have to do everything solo themselves .... I've seen this many times and I even use the same stern-to + rotation technique when I sail with my girlfriend since in any case when I am at the helm and she is alone at the bow it is very hard to catch a buoy with the hook, unless the buoy is well equipped with a nice rope loop (typically not the case, especially in the Med). So ... great job!
Thanks for the kind words. I like your view on charter guests.