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A bit, yeah...

Moi, jamais...

Rental boat and most likely the first time at the wheel for the captain. (These boats can be rented by anyone, even without a license).

See above comment. It was far from easy even for an experienced canal boat captain & they explain why. Easy to be a keyboard captain.❤

@yinny11-11 I'm a retired ships captain, marine pilot and have also sailed small boats for 64 years . Believe me it's an easy manoeuvre .

Depends on the specifics of the boat, this can happen and get out of control if you aren’t used to the boat.

This is a rental boat and they always have a lot of fenders as most people hiring them don't have a license.

JasonWoods He is the type who wouldnt accept help..its a member of the family/party thats quite rightly laughing.. so calm down cupcake !!!

Stephen Bradley. I am a hire boater (unashamed and unapologetic,) but mostly narrowboats on UK canals. We did Nieuwpoort - Dixmude - Ypres - Nieuwpoort - Brugges - Nieuwpoort a couple of years ago in a similar cruiser. What with wind, rain and commercial barges, the Ghent - Ostende is not a place to do that sort of thing. However, the boat we had, did have slightly different turning characteristics than a narrowboat. It was easier, in fact. The instruction I had from the boatyard was to keep the wheel in the same place, once you had started the turn and then fore and aft (gently) on the throttle and it will keep turning. Prop walk is present all the time, of course, but it is almost negligible going ahead, but very prominent going astern. In very serious cases (like an ex navy motor whaler) the trick was to centre the rudder, give it some beans astern, then close the throttle and point the rudder in the direction you want to go. I don't know if there was something wrong with that boat, but it didn't seem to want to turn left? Even after the mysterious 360 degree turn, he snatched defeat from the very jaws of victory, by drift off right - again. There didn't seem to be much wind? I agree about the laughing. A bit of gentle, timely advice might have gone down quite well.

I spent 15 years up and down the Thames doing Windsor to Henley alone, forgotten how many locks. But I was spoilt I had twin engines and the boat handled great, yes of course there was a current flowing but all rivers have a currant that's how the water gets to the sea. My ropes were set so I just had to flick them over one bollard and use them as spring lines not fore and aft lines. But I was taught all this, the crew and I would practise mooring up, and handling ropes, there is an art to it. I also solo'd the canals and inland seas of Belgium and Holland, where I found it was the sail boat crews that were the worst. Seams they slip in the morning and moor at night and that's the only practise they get. But to be fair to the vlog crew they were on a hire boat, with about 30 mins of tuition.