How to Throw a Line while Docking

[@MartinsMovement]

Thanks for the video! Hope you’re still sailing. Best wishes🤙🏼

[@rcytb]

The best video I've seen on the topic.

[@hzz6652]

Great video! 🤩

[@bjswope8797]

After watching your lasso video and this video I noticed you said to coil the lines into loops and I think you did it such that the loops crossed over like an x for each loop. Am I seeing that? If so, what were the hand movements to do that as opposed to making just straight loops? Would a short video on how to loop a line to prevent fouling make a good addition to this playlist?

[@WillN2Go1]

Off hand I'd toss more loops (greater mass) from my dominant hand. This way more mass is directed at the aiming point, so if the non-dominant hand goes awry there's more momentum heading in the right direction. You're practiced, Cian wasn't but still did a good job. (So of course I might be right about the physics, wrong about the application.) I'd suggest trying 4 loops in the dominant hand, 1 loop non-d. Then the exact opposite. Another experiment would be a bad throw from the non-dominant hand. If more loops are in the dominant throwing hand and on their way, then a bad throw from the non-dominant should be less likely to mess up the throw. I'll take your word on the two hands, but normally I'd think everything from the dominant hand. I do think your method towards a cleat (the other video) looks really effective (meaning more effective than what I've been doing. I'm a rookie.) Thanks for the videos. I once spent over an hour trying to find a clear video showing how to coil a braided line. I know all the 'old' methods but it was remarkable how vague and unclear so many videos were. The biggest problem most of them had was they spent more time showing how Not to do it. We tend to retain what we see most. So "This is how to do it" (your method), can efficiently train someone randomly doing a thing into near perfect form than, 'don't do this, don't do this, and don't ever do this." My son and I did that in a huge motorhome on the tiny roads of Scotland. I just got worse and worse. It was scary and we were right to be nervous and cautious. When he took over I decided to only give him positive feedback (unless he was about to hit something.) Within 45 minutes it was like he'd been driving that motorhome for years. I could see the white line on the edge of the road in the side mirror. It was amazing how with positive feedback he quickly dialed it right in. He couldn't tell you what he'd learned to do but he sure learned to do it well. He then did the same for me in France with a rental car that had been in an accident and pulled hard to the right. I could keep it on the road, but I wanted to look at the scenery, using this method he dialed me right in. I hope you do more videos.

[@BrianWest-r1u]

I don't think he will understand your proper English or this much vocab mass at once.

[@BrianWest-r1u]

Whats a two arm coil?

[@uschurch]

Simple but effective.

[@RPDCH1]

Thanks.....

[@jeffbenson1013]

Is that 1” line

[@SavvySalt]

I don't recall exactly. But I think it's either 5/8 or 3/4; it came off a 43' hunter and I think they were the same diameter as my 3/4" docklines but they might have been one size smaller

[@SavvySalt]

If you want to see some truly impressive line heaving skills you need to check out Maritime Throwdown on facebook. It's next level line handling: facebook.com/watch/?v=2202581849998499