Using a Control Line: Docking Stern to

Sharpen Up Episode 13 - Using a Control Line, Docking Stern to explores the use of a windward stern control line and the use of the engine to regain control and position your yacht upwind.
This technique allows you to control the yachts position and give the crew time to set the bow lines and second stern line without a time pressure.
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[@64Golfy]

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

[@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 :)

[@cf1237]

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

[@furrom152]

As a wise man once said, MOOAAR POWAAAAA!

[@45DegreesSailing]

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

[@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

[@felixsailing]

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

[@evocan]

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.