In this video we have a sunsail bareboat cat driven by French skipper who had major problems with mooring, me (white shirt-khaki pants) had to wake up sunsail lead boat skipper named Deni who was fortunately on my shift in my marina takeing a rest before helping to moore his flotilla boats (about 10 boats). Deni as a excellent sunsail skipper who is allways willing to help jumped on the bareboat and handled cat on around 13 knots of North wind called Tramontana and bursts were up 20 knots in some moments. This is not easy manouver if you don t have skills especially in this marina where I work at on the first peer outside where you have wind coming from starboard side. Also many greetings to Mr.Knut who is filming this and helping all of us to see bouth our expirience and mistakes so we can acknowledge it, practice and work it out.
@Pio: Thx for your comment. Your trick, twisting the loop two or three times around the Stern-line to hold the load is good. But the technique to pull the rope straight towards you, is not very effective, I think. Maybe it's more effective if you use the Vector-pulling technique. Vector-pulling means you pull the standing part of the rope in 90 degrees angel. Your pulling force will increase up to 170% approximately. 😉 Regards
This is an interesting situation. I wonder what can be improved. Of course, as always, it's easier to comment here than doing all this in real life :-) Knowing there is so much crosswind, maybe the person on the dock could have immediately done a couple of round turns around the small bull-bar to hold the cat ? I mean ... the cat was postioned nicely (timestamp 00:30) , but the person on the dock was letting the cat go for 15 seconds before trying to hold the cat. Secondly, as crew on the boat, I am inclined to throw a second line which is tied onto the midcleat of the cat. The second person on the dock can do a couple of roudn turns around the bull-bar which is also used by the dingy. That should prevent the drift towards leeward. Another way of doing all this,, is to throw the mid-cleated line as first to the dock, instead of throwing the stern line first... That would allow the skipper to fight less against the crosswind and keep the cat much more in its lane.
At this Marina(Milna) it is always the problem that there is no cross bollard like everywhere you will find cross bollards on a pier. During strong cross wind you always lose valuable time. With a Monohull it is even more difficult there. The rings are under the platform - this takes time to pull a mooring through. Some of the comments here let me think "the greatest captains are always on land".
In this video we have a sunsail bareboat cat driven by French skipper who had major problems with mooring, me (white shirt-khaki pants) had to wake up sunsail lead boat skipper named Deni who was fortunately on my shift in my marina takeing a rest before helping to moore his flotilla boats (about 10 boats). Deni as a excellent sunsail skipper who is allways willing to help jumped on the bareboat and handled cat on around 13 knots of North wind called Tramontana and bursts were up 20 knots in some moments. This is not easy manouver if you don t have skills especially in this marina where I work at on the first peer outside where you have wind coming from starboard side. Also many greetings to Mr.Knut who is filming this and helping all of us to see bouth our expirience and mistakes so we can acknowledge it, practice and work it out.
@Pio: Thx for your comment. Your trick, twisting the loop two or three times around the Stern-line to hold the load is good. But the technique to pull the rope straight towards you, is not very effective, I think.
Maybe it's more effective if you use the Vector-pulling technique. Vector-pulling means you pull the standing part of the rope in 90 degrees angel. Your pulling force will increase up to 170% approximately. 😉
Regards
A cleat or bollard near the rings would be very helpful
@@TassieTiki ... that's obviously! Regards
This is an interesting situation. I wonder what can be improved. Of course, as always, it's easier to comment here than doing all this in real life :-)
Knowing there is so much crosswind, maybe the person on the dock could have immediately done a couple of round turns around the small bull-bar to hold the cat ? I mean ... the cat was postioned nicely (timestamp 00:30) , but the person on the dock was letting the cat go for 15 seconds before trying to hold the cat.
Secondly, as crew on the boat, I am inclined to throw a second line which is tied onto the midcleat of the cat. The second person on the dock can do a couple of roudn turns around the bull-bar which is also used by the dingy. That should prevent the drift towards leeward.
Another way of doing all this,, is to throw the mid-cleated line as first to the dock, instead of throwing the stern line first... That would allow the skipper to fight less against the crosswind and keep the cat much more in its lane.
At this Marina(Milna) it is always the problem that there is no cross bollard like everywhere you will find cross bollards on a pier. During strong cross wind you always lose valuable time. With a Monohull it is even more difficult there. The rings are under the platform - this takes time to pull a mooring through.
Some of the comments here let me think "the greatest captains are always on land".
Both, crew and dock hands are unable 🤦🏻♂️
Chartering an easy to steer boat, but having no skills.