Which Line First?

@7:20 That's got to be the best pyrate I've ever seen! 🤯

Very thorough explanation, thanks!

as someone from South Africa, Who understands Afrikaans, I REALLY appreciate the name of your boat 😊😊

Nice to see someone posting videos relating to modern, wide beam, twin rudder boats!

Just want to say great video, love your content and simple explanation of the physics. My new favourite YouTube channel. Keep the content coming 👍

Great video. Thank you

Spring is King 👍🏻🇨🇦😎

I have boated for 30 years in the Pacific NW...Mid Cleat ALWAYS....have a beer chase your girl or just admire the fact it isn't going anywhere!! Johnne in Clallam Bay WA.

So very useful. Thank you!

Great thank you from Italy😊

Very nice explanation

You have missed the best cheat of all, the single handed sailors go to for easy mooring in any conditions... run a line from the center cleat, outside everything, to a winch in the cockpit. Leave a lot of slack in the line. Approach the mooring and when the cockpit is parallel with the cleat you would use for a stern line, drop the line over the cleat and pull in the slack on the winch. Now you can motor forward and the line automatically becomes a stern line and spring, all without leaving the cockpit. The boat is made and you can step off and do your lines at leisure. This can also be done the other way round, drop the line over a cleat youwould use for a midship line and pop the engine in reverse, hey presto a midship line and spring in one. If the engine should fail, just winch in all the slack and you are along side as well. I have been living on board and sailing solo for 18 months now and this is my go to method for completely trouble free mooring. So much so, if people offer to take my lines I politely decline now, or just ask them to take the bow line. This is IMHO the safest way to come alongside in all conditions and has saved me many a blush in marinas.

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

Thanks. Rare to find advocate of midship cleat when docking.It is the easiest line to cleat first.

How many docks in Poole have the circumstances, where the current is perpendicular to the dock? On the Solent area (Hamble, Itchen, etc), I can only think of two. And in Portland, Weymouth, Torbay, there are none that I can think of. The scenario is pretty rare... and depending on the wind strength the ferry-gliding at 8:02 might not be possible at that angle. Also, I'd approach the dock as you show at 0:45 and then have a line ready as you show at 7:30, but I'd rig the bitter end around a winch, so you can take up the slack really swiftly, and you don't have to see-saw quite as much. On my boat, I'd possible I'd also approach it from the other side, so I can use the prop-walk to control the stern when I go astern after getting the line on the cleat (I have a RH prop, so on a LH prop this demo would be he correct approach).

Thank you

mid-sheet cleat is the way to go. the only downside is you need to leave the helm while single handing, but if you get good at stopping the boat when you dock it is not a problem.

3:25 if rudder is placed more to front than rope, try to turn rudder left, not right. Right rudder pushes hull away from harbour. Left rudder will push hull to the harbour. Still most of engine power is directed to the front, so it will cause turning hull to the right, especially if You'll make moore longer.

if i was solosailing I would come in directly from west and rund to the front and crash into the dock with as litle speed as possible and tie the front firs. then go back in the boat and pick up the rope from the back and go back on the dock and pull in the back.

One option I think worth considering is to tie the bow, turn to port, and engage forward. That would bring the stern to the dock.