Using a Control Line: Docking Stern to

[@grahamt8434]

The moments before the correction start I find very unsettling. Those few seconds pass so slowly. Well demonstrated!!

[@45DegreesSailing]

Haha yes they do. And then the gust comes! 😫

[@derveltensail]

Love this way to dock / leave dock...it makes life so much easier and I am always suprised that so many people don't know about it

[@45DegreesSailing]

Indeed! Control lines are the best. Should be skills that are in everyone's wheelhouse :)

[@64Golfy]

As always Nick, great video. Thank you! Have a great season,😊

[@tonyhalsall3170]

Thanks for linking to this video, again this is a great presentation -perhaps add the full mooring sequence one day? I hadn’t seen it before. Last weekend at the end of a charter in Corfu, my wife and I were faced with highly unusual conditions for Corfu. Twenty knots straight down the pontoon with (as in your video) all the wind coming across from starboard side. As it happens, I did almost this exact manoeuvre with some slight differences…. Once I had the stbd quarter line on, I engaged full power and full stbd helm which just about kept us in equilibrium. I then, tightened off the helm nut while my wife hooked the only lazy lane available (also starboard side) and I held the loose end of the line inside the boat whilst she tied off the business end forward. I was shaking at the end of it all because it was such an unusual (for Corfu) wind phenomena. I had learned the technique of using a control line years earlier when I owned a small power boat and its mooring was in crosswind by default but I never imagined that this technique would also work with a sailing bot in much more extreme conditions. Nice one Nick. Love your vids. I must come to Croatia one day lol

[@45DegreesSailing]

Thanks Tony! And well done! It is a very stressful move when beam on like this. In this case the helm postion is irrelevant due to the twin rudders. With single rudders is certainly plays a part. Holding the lazy end of the line clear from the propeller is excellent work well done :)

[@mennovanrij9334]

Very informative. Especially the 'more power' situation. Can you do a video like this 'How to approach a mooring ball duo-handed'. We've seen a lot of near-accidents last summer with that. 'Hafenkino' is the German word for what you witness when others try to 'park' their charter boat.

[@45DegreesSailing]

Haha. The ‘docking cinema’! Indeed I will work in a 2 handed version. For now we have this which you can just add a crew member to: How to Pick up a Mooring over the Stern Singlehanded kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5_InoJrp9CtipI

[@cf1237]

That was a great video and it is clear you are a good teacher

[@marianiandre]

Great video and explanation, very helpful thanks! I've just a couple of questions: first, is the helm neutral or is it to starboard when you increase engine speed, not clear in the video? Second, is there any different approach to adopt if the propeller is right-handed or left-handed? Thanks, Andrea

[@45DegreesSailing]

Hey Andrea. The helm position is neutral, this is a twin rudder yacht so it makes very little difference where you set the helm when the boat is stationary. No different approach based on propeller. You will have a change in effect between the two, and the process is still the same :)

[@furrom152]

As a wise man once said, MOOAAR POWAAAAA!

[@45DegreesSailing]

“I just can’t do captain! We don’t have the POWWAAARR!”

[@philippratz9304]

Hi, your Videos are Great! If it was a catamaran, wich Engine would you put in forward Idle to use the Controlline?

[@45DegreesSailing]

Windward control line and windward engine. You would likely need both engines if the wind is medium to strong. more power on the control line side. Get the second stern line on asap. Then both engines ahead.

[@felixsailing]

When applying power where is your rudder... hard to starboard (in this example) ? ..

[@Osuruktan_teyyare]

Straight

[@andrewmccann3460]

I was going to ask the same question…then I clocked the marker on the helm as top and centred…I did think at first, perhaps he’s over to starboard…but dead ahead now makes sense! Great lesson, confidence and in control!😃👍🏾 loving your work!

[@felixsailing]

Hang on .... he did say it was a twin rudder boat . ? ..I did not know that a twin rudder boat would hold straight or turn windward with the rudder centred. .with a single rudder boat I would "hard rudder" in the direction I needed to turn to hold the boat against the wind... please correct me if I am wrong 🙂

[@45DegreesSailing]

@@felixsailing Love this conversation! So, good answers above. Rudder was straight in this case, and as said, its a twin rudder yacht, so the position of the helm has very little if any effect in this manoeuvre. So she will turn to windward, as you have the line attached to the windward side creating an imbalance of forces, as the prop is in the centre. It will not hold straight if there is no wind effect countering the pivot. It will continue to rotate in the direction of the side of the control line.

[@45DegreesSailing]

@@felixsailing with regards to the 'hard rudder' you can use this for sure, just understand that it will have a large effect on your stern initially. If we were single rudder in this video, and hard rudder to starboard. It would have the effect of pushing the stern to port drastically in the beginning. Whereas if you had a port rudder it would bring your stern to stbd (windward here) and the bow would also follow eventually.

[@wolfgangdostmann2308]

Is it a hanse boat with double rudder?

[@45DegreesSailing]

This is a Bavaria 46 Cruiser. Twin rudder.