jpl2407
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- Aug 1, 2013
- 98
- Boat Info
- 1995 250 Sun Dancer
- Engines
- 5.7 Mercruiser (Non EFI) W Alpha 1 Gen 2
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There's not much in the water on the front half of those boats. The wind coming down the fairway was causing him problems, you can see that from the moment he pulled out of the slip. All you experts could have done better I'm sure:wink:, just as he probably will too the next time.
LOL. If my boat was there I would chip in! Not that I would defend that display of seamanship but the line of flags at the end of the clip are flapping pretty well. It looks to me like one engine working. Did almost the same thing first time out on our Catalina C36. The prop walk pushed the stern to Port, the wind was coming from the Port side, I had the rudder all the way turned Starboard and the boat backed straight up. Shifted to forward gear, turned the rudder to Port, and the boat went straight forward. Only the wind had moved us down the fairway. Took me almost to the end to figure out how to use the prop walk to get where I wanted to go, and we had lots of attention by then. Hit nothing. With twin engines (or an outdrive where the prop turns as you steer) this is hardly ever an issue. However, try to drive your boat on only one engine and you will see it presents some interesting problems. Assuming this guy had one engine out of two working, I would have probably used a spring line or a 'dock assistant' to get the boat headed the right direction before sticking my nose out into a narrow fairway with minimal control. Never mind the wind. What if another boat came? What if it had an equally inept Captain?What wind? Look a the burgee on the boat on the left side of the video. Not even moving. This guys needs to swallow his pride and get some lessons. I'm sure his neighbors would take up the collection if he can't afford them. Simply pathetic. Hey....that would be a good name for his boat!