Docking A SINGLE Engine Boat SIDEWAYS!

Love no matter how many times I tell my cousins to remain on the boat until I’m done. They jump forcefully of the bow just before I’m done ruining a good docking.

8 motors is always better

Coral Lane in KCB!

Not kidding - I started the video and that’s my exact marina. I thought I was having a stroke for a second. KCB resident here 👍🏽

Great video ❤ / please don’t forget about/ the caption? There’s only one one the boat ⛴️ so please listen to him / her ❤😂

True or false? Boat hooks are just for greenhorns. I hear old guys say this. So, essential piece of equipment, or a waste of money, just for noobies? Sure looks like you don't need one. Great video, very succinct.

Great video thanks

Amazing Boats

What boat is this, is this center console a bay boat, can you provide model inches and year please, thanks

Now do it with actual wind!

I think it’s important to train people to have bumpers out AND ropes tied to both the bow and stern with a enough length to toss to a deck hand and or stretch to any and all posts or cleats for quick tie up. Especially in bad weather, it’s imperative to be able to at least get your bow tied and you can always use the engine to swing your stern in from there. Assuming you can just maneuver your boat in and then think about ropes is not wise. And never underestimate the “help” someone on the dock may try to give… be ready for anything and get tied up as fast as possible.

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I think the best tip is to remember you are steering the back of the boat always.

Just got a boat with a broke shifter. Stuck in 4th gear. And apparently can't reverse. Can't fix it till I take it out of water but I have no trailer and it's a 28 ft boat they can't pick up with their forklift.

One rule to add for docking, know where the "point of no return" is going to be, and if you miss it, know what it will take to set up for a do-over.

As in, you're not going to make the docking if you're out of position past a particular point, so have a plan ready to 'back up' to do it again. Don't let yourself get pushed beyond a point where it'll be even more difficult to get out of, or correct.

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I taught myself to do this when I first started boating 35 years ago. I boat 95% of the time by myself with a 43’ Searay so I had to learn to make the boat do the work. I will not allow on board guest to stand on the platform or hang off the sides. I tell them stay seated until I get boat into position then they can help tie up. No thrusters on my boat.

The whole time I'm just thinking of how many people can park their cars properly smh.

prop walk and a vessel with a lot of windage is a bitch

This video seems to be using the concept of "Prop Walk" before doing this you should practice in open water rotating your boat 360 degrees (Yaw) without moving forward or backward (Prop Walk). When you get good at it you can pretty much move the boat sideways

Thanks for sharing

before you approach the dock get your spring lines ready

Amazing videos with each stages. Many view points.

A little red Port left in the bottle

I learned how to dock single handed in an 18' walkthru with a 90hp 2 stroke outboard in the sloughs near San Francisco. 40 mph wind and 6 knot tide 90 degrees to the dock. You get a couple of ropes ready at the front of the boat and then you put the nose of the boat on the dock and then you run to the front and loop a line around a dock cleat. Then you use reverse against the ropes to pull the boat around and to the dock where you can throw a line over a cleat from the rear of the boat. Took me a few times to work out the logistics but it worked.

I find this really odd here in the UK most our boats are just single engines, we have slightly more sensibly sized boats.😂😊

Easier yet is to pull in to the dock as shown.
But tie off the bow to a piling, then put the motor in reverse while angleing it toward the dock.
Motor needs to be at idle speed, no need to even be standing at the helm.
Be standing at the stern and ready to tie that off to a stern piling.
When the boat is secured go to the helm and shift the engine into neutral.

You’ve got it exactly right. Here’s a tip, training how to use the engine to kick the stern around I use a pistol grip garden hose nozzle. Use it to illustrate how the engine pushes the stern with a jet of water. Few illustrations off the dock then get the new operator to duplicate what I am doing with the engines prop wash using the hose nozzle.

Using it makes for a faster understanding of the dynamics.

Watching this video very carefully even if i dont own a boat and i live in the desert just in case I ever run into having to dock boat parallel 🤓😅

Wow professional ty for the video

What do you do if your boat has a 1970 Johnson 115 with electric shift? If you know, you know…

Those all work, but you can actually park it going side ways. Pull up parallel to the spot and stop. Use hard right reverse, hard left forward for short bursts. The boat will walk in sideways.

you make that look easy

Go slow look like a pro

the big thing, is try this when there are no other boats--practice, practice practive and slow, slow, slow. Second, if you are not alone--and you should not be--have your friend ready up front with a dock line, so he/she can step off and tie to a cleat. Another thing you can do, with that second person is this--go straight in--90 degrees to the dock and have that person ready to step onto the dock (with dock line in their hand) as you "nose in". Now, the bow is pinned when they loop the line on a cleat, think about it. The boat could swing right, or left, but either way, the nose is pinned, and providing there is room, the boat can't hit the boat on either side--as the nose is already pinned. Next, don't pin it tight, the dockman can loop the line on a cleat--and if they need to let out line, or haul you forward, they have directional control of the boat. Reverse when you leave, have the dockman man the line, then you bring the boat 90 degrees from the dock, then the dockman step aboard, releasing the cleat as you reverse the boat away from the dock.

Nope. No pointers missed. Nicely done. I teach sailing and docking in Boston harbor and I profess two things: 1 - Go slowwww. So if you make a mistake, it happens slooowwwlllyyy. And 2 - Bailing out of a bad approach shows better judgment and seamanship than trying to squeeze it in there and failing miserably.

You are a pro🤩

Maybe do one on prop walk?

After about 40 this all stops seeming fun. The car seems like a better choice.

😎🇺🇸As a Lifelong Mariner and USCG Licensed Captain, Docking a Vessel is the Least Stressful Part of My Day/Night Because It Means That I’ve Returned To Shore Alive and Safe.

I'm an instructor. Why didn't you mention, before making your approach 1. check wind direction? Maybe approach into wind? Why didn't you mention check to see if there is a current by looking at water flow around the other moored boats? Then approach into current. Wind over tide situation? And no mention of docking when the wind is directly from the pontoon.
Useless video.

I'm an instructor. Why didn't you mention, before making your approach 1. check wind direction? Maybe approach into wind? Why didn't you mention check to see if there is a current by looking at water flow around the other moored boats? Then approach into current. Wind over tide situation? And no mention of docking when the wind is directly from the pontoon.
Useless video.

If this sort of didactic clip is needed then I understand why my American uncle asked me to show him my docking technique many times.
This is a normal procedure when obtaining the boat licence here in Switzerland.

If you find driving a boat stress full then you shouldnt own one - no one cares about your skill its just a boat get insurance then have fun

for small boats leas than 25 ft, your boat pivots around the centre of the boat like a wheel.

Why am I watching this, I only have a kayak😂

You are driving the back of the boat. NOT THE FRONT LIKE A CAR. People don't realize that. Don't forget it. You are steering the back. Not the front

why would you specify that it doesn't matter which way the other boats are facing? I mean, obviously it doesn't.