SFS Getting off Bow Bridle

[@DaveandGinny972]

I’ve tried many methods on how to leave the pontoon but the bow bridle is by far the best. I found the technique in your excellent book Duncan 👍

[@sailingsummerbreeze]

Love the video Duncan and love your book. I use this technique all the time when sailing alone or with novice crew, I think it's brilliant. As someone with a fairly light boat, twin rudders & a lifting keel, more tips on marina manoeuvring with twin rudders wouldn't go a miss :)

[@mickobrien6360]

Firstly I love your videos. Yesterday I used what you called the Giles method to get back onto my mooring (from your fab book) . It worked great. But because I had been practicing with it before I set off, so was all set up etc I had already removed all lines. To check I had got the set up correct. The boat held to the dock and I could see no reason why it wouldn't work even with a strong wind trying to push the stern or the bow off. I then put the boat astern and just took the line of the winch and off the cleat and away I went no fuss and I think it would be fine single handed in most conditions for entering and leaving your birth. It would also act as a good reminder of how to get back onto your birth single handed with no heroics. A great book Stress Free Sailing. very useful.

[@StressFreeSailing]

Thanks and good news! D

[@mickobrien3156]

Hi, Mick... I have nothing to say except ... We have the same name. Cool. Small world. Though, this isn't my real name. I got it from an old 80s teen prison movie with Sean Penn. Anyway, I just thought it would look cool to comment from Mick Obrien to Mick OBrien.

[@lubberwalker]

Great idea. I like it but I'm nervous when you walk around the pontoon and finger untying lines. I'd prefer to set the stern line to slip (for release b4 your bridle) and stay on the boat as much as possible when preparing and releasing the mooring lines.

[@eddiefio]

Love your book Duncan and I suggest it to everyone. Really fits a nice niche for the many of us who find ourselves single handed often. However this part confuses me: it seems to suggest this maneuver can be completed without getting the lines wet. But I dont see how thats possible, even in this video the line gets wet.

[@StressFreeSailing]

I don't mean to suggest that you won't get the line, the bridle wet, you will. I am suggesting that it will not snag on the keel or prop. It will definitely get wet. DW

[@CaptMarkSVAlcina]

Looks good

[@ParrotSailor]

Nice!

[@geoffallen1331]

Duncan I have the ebook and can't play the videos on my tablet what is the password for the videos on the site. Or is it somewhere in the book Geoff

[@StressFreeSailing]

Check the Westviewsailing.co.uk website for the password

[@whitefields5595]

Duncan. Simple problem here. You are pulling a long line. Its going to foul on something e.g. the pontoon cleat or other gubbins. You cannot see it from the cockpit. Crazy. Far better to use the midships cleat with a large loop round the pontoon cleat

[@StressFreeSailing]

Each to his own. Can you manage your system single handed from the cockpit? Actually I have evolved a system when we use 4 lines for driving ahead against a a head spring. This is bow-lined to the cleat by the stern on the pontoon with a trip line led to the cockpit. I drive ahead against this and the boat is held alongside. i get rid of the bow line, stern line and back spring. Then into astern and when alongside the cleat on the shore i lift off the bow-line. You are wrong about the line from the bow bridle fouling something. I have never had this happen and prior to running a 4 mooring line set up i used it all the time.

[@marklampo8164]

Don't advertise the xanax and hooch to the coast guard!