Your reverse may be poor but it should still do the trick. Many people who have poor reverse have folding props. It takes more engine RPM to get them to open fully and bit the water. Like Gary said, start WAY out then throttle up in reverse. Hold the wheel centered. Watch the speed log, GPS and nearby physical landmarks. Once you are moving backwards turn around the pedestal and drive backwards. Throttle down so that you are going as slow as possible (idle) while still maintaining steerage and overcoming the effects of wind and water. You can pop it in and out of gear (FWD/REV) at idle to help. While steering backwards, the boat generaly turns around the keel and is lead by the rudder so start your turns when you are at a right angle to inside of your corner (piling directly to your right or left). The bow may have a tendency to oversteer if going too fast so I find wide at the start and close at the end and slower if possible. Once lined up with the slip you can put it in forward to slow your approach. Back to neutral and cost in. One last burst of forward and she's stopped, waiting for mooring lines.
To help in every manner of dockng and undocking I have tightly strung old mooring lines between the peer and the most distant piling on both sides. This way I can always have something to push or pull on if something goes wrong no matter where the boat or crew (me) is in the slip. Josh Muckley S/ V Sea Hawk On Jan 4, 2014 12:49 PM, "Curtis" <cpt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gary, you are right on the Spin-lock Rigid vang. My 30MK1 has a split > backstay.. > The topping lift in the photo is just kept out of the way. Perhaps I will > remove it next time I go up the mast/ > My reverse sux so bad I have never tried to back into my birth. Maybe one > day when I'm well experienced and have some hands to help incase I get into > trouble. > Thanks for the help > > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Gary Nylander > <gnylan...@atlanticbb.net>wrote: > >> Dwight, I agree with your docking observations. I went further than >> you on the main, though. I moved my traveler to the bridgedeck and made it >> the width of the flat area (getting a bunch more control) and put another >> 4:1 smaller setup into the middle of the original 4:1, giving me 16:1. No >> problem with pulling it in, even with it attached at about 2/3 back on the >> boom. >> >> And, I got rid of the topping lift with a Garhauer solid vang. I see >> Curtis appears to have some sort of solid vang, so I don't understand the >> need for the topping lift (or is that the backstay....). >> >> Another trick I use with the 30-1, (which is really crappy when backing - >> - - what with the offset prop). My old slip was on a narrow channel and I >> backed the boat in - start down the channel going backwards - get a little >> speed up and drive it like a car, facing backwards. Seems to work pretty >> well, and can be stopped with a little blast of forward. When I docked >> before, I would go up the channel, stop and then try to back in - didn't >> have enough way on to get effective rudder control. If I back in from a >> distance, the rudder is already doing its job. >> >> Gary >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* dwight <dwight...@gmail.com> >> *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> *Sent:* Saturday, January 04, 2014 8:31 AM >> *Subject:* Re: Stus-List single handing >> >> Curt >> >> >> >> Thanks for sharing the photos. Something that I noticed is that your >> docking lines appear to be fastened to your winches…I recommend that you >> consider using an aft cleat for the stern lines (similar to how you have >> the bow line) and midship attachment (to the toe rail for example) for >> *separate* fore and aft spring lines. It might make a difference if >> conditions get unexpectedly rough at the marina. Also I believe your >> topping lift might work better and be more out of the way if it were >> connected to the very aft end of the boom. I notice you have a 4:1 purchase >> on the main sheet; if you find the sail hard to trim close hauled in >> heavier air you could easily increase that to 5:1 if the fiddle block on >> your boom had a becket like this one: >> >> >> >> >> http://ca.binnacle.com/p4288/HARKEN-FIDDLE-BLOCK-W/BECKET/product_info.html >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] *On Behalf Of * >> Curtis >> *Sent:* January 4, 2014 1:15 AM >> *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> *Subject:* Re: Stus-List single handing >> >> >> >> My finger has the wind predominantly out of the south or off the stern. >> but sometime it blows me into the dock. I also have the pleasure of the South >> Carolina ripping tides of from 7 to 9 feet per cycle. So first of all I >> have learned to pick my battles. If it is to harsh I tie up at the face >> dock til the lull tide. If I have an outgoing tide I can do it up to mid >> tide if there is no wind to deal with. I can manage to crab it in the birth >> with the current off the nose. I keep a 8 foot ling over the rear winch and >> a bow line and a amidship spring line. I get the nose in and I got it. I do >> ask for help if its a harsh day. Otherwize I have no trouble. It is worth >> just picking a day for a short in and out of the slip practice. Maybe I >> plan an afternoon day sail but get there way early prep the boat and ease >> her out and swing in" calibrate the wind vane or the electronic compass. >> then birth her and wate for the guest to show and take her out again. >> Practice, Practice,Practice. I'm new to all of this but learning fast. >> >> Thanks to all you guys and your help I may not bounce off any of the guys >> boats in the marina. >> >> >> >> Cheers. Curt >> >> >> >> >> http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s31/LTGoshen/New%20Bimini%20Nov%202013/20131031_180302_zpsb64aa2f6.jpg >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Chuck S <cscheaf...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Agree about dockside help. Many times a powerboater not used to pointy >> boats, will pull my sailboat's bowline too tight to the finger. Last year, >> A 20 year veteran boatyard worker helped me to tie up. I had all my lines >> coiled at the gate and was motoring in neutral into a slip with a slight >> headwind, keeping steerageway and planning to give her a slight burst of >> reverse after I got inside the outer pilings. I asked the guy to take the >> bowline as it came in reach and before I knew it he tied it tight to a >> cleat midway on the float, and before I could do anything the bow was >> pulled to the side and the hull pulled into the finger. I jumped onto the >> float and stopped the boat but not before the hull ahead of my fenders was >> gouged by a sharp edge of a plank. I asked why he didn't allow the boat >> to fully enter the slip and why tie to the wrong cleat? He said wasn't >> aware of my ability and he didn't think I could stop the boat and he was >> used to 70 foot Viking Yachts that have so much power they can destroy the >> dock. He meant well. We're still friends, but now I only hand out a >> midship line when people want to help. If they pull on that too hard, the >> fenders will protect the hull. >> >> >> >> Chuck >> *Resolute* >> 1990 C&C 34R >> Atlantic City, NJ >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From: *"Bill Bina" <billb...@sbcglobal.net> >> *To: *cnc-list@cnc-list.com >> *Sent: *Friday, January 3, 2014 8:10:13 PM >> >> >> *Subject: *Re: Stus-List single handing >> >> I actually don't like strangers assisting me in docking. We haven't >> rehearsed together, and that makes for surprises that I can do without. >> The other tip, is that although you don't want to come in too fast, most >> botched dockings I see are caused by going so slow that steerage and >> lift on the keel becomes weak or lacking. When entering my slip, I'm >> traveling downstream, usually with a crosswind. I have to move faster >> than the river to maintain control. Knowing what stage of tide is >> critical, as just before low tide, is the fastest current of all. That >> also means my boat goes sideways faster as I make the turn across the >> current to enter the fairway. So I need to compensate for that as well. >> If the tide is rising, current is slower and docking is considerably >> easier for me. Practice is more than just repetition. You have to >> observe details and remember them. >> >> Bill Bina >> >> On 1/3/2014 11:42 AM, Curtis wrote: >> > Being a good single handler doesn’t mean you can’t ask for help. It’s >> > not that you have to do it all yourself at the dock. Plenty of people >> > at my dock, and always willing to grab a line. Asking for help in a >> > tight means you are being smart. The more I do it the better I get at >> > doing it. I also think of all sorts of thing that help me aide the >> > process. Like running the anchor chain and rode in a loop from the bow >> > to the stern with a pin release to let me drop anchor. Makes it real >> > nice and simple and safe to boot. >> > Keep us posted on the progress. >> > Cheers, LT >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> “Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, >> should really be running the world.” - Nicholas Monsarrat >> ------------------------------ >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3658/6472 - Release Date: 01/03/14 >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> CnC-List@cnc-list.com >> >> > > > -- > “Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, > should really be running the world.” - Nicholas Monsarrat > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > >
_______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
