Westview Sailing & Yachting Monthly Videos - Berthing Blunders.flv

The video of the Berthing Blunders article in Yachting Monthly's October 2012 issue

[@davidfstreek7531]

'... careful not to suffer from any delusions of adequacy'. Indeed Duncan and I will be sure to check out stress-free sailing. Your delivery is exceptional. The videos have been helpful and enjoyable.

[@jake4101]

Mr Wells, you are a great gift to the novice sailor community. Thank you so much for your wonderful videos.

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you

[@jhyacinth]

Really well done! The little trick changing fender heights is priceless. I often sail with a novice crew and watching them struggle to reposition fenders as we prepare to raft-up can be painful to watch. This will be a big help.

[@Westviewsailing]

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[@geetaramnath4878]

Hunting in Arica

[@spelunkerd]

This kind of classical teaching is excellent, and often only learned by experience. This is the best youtube video on berthing I have found. You've got my sub! I was a little confused by the explanation of the calculations for boat speed, but your example cleared that up. Put another way, multiply measured water speed in ft/sec by 0.6 to get water speed in NM/h. That tip about quick repositioning a fender was a nice practical idea, too.

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you

[@lubberwalker]

Very "Hitch-hikers-Guide"-like. My brain the size of a planet instantly recognized your Peter Jones-ish delivery.

[@nigelmtb]

As the others have said, many many thanks Duncan! As a new day skipper, this is exactly what I panic and sweat about. I reckon I could navigate anywhere, then bash the boat off everything in sight getting alongside. This video is a huge help. Keep up the good work!

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you. Do check out Stress-Free Sailing

[@jaxxbee12]

Thank you Duncan. Love the bit about the marina being void of people until you make a mistake, so true.

[@Westviewsailing]

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[@lubberwalker]

We HAVE to park stern-to for the next members. I came in once against a beam wind blowing from our finger, reversing in WITH the ebb, opposite a really long visiting boat with it's massive bowsprit and looming anchor restricting the "safeside" and my turning circle. Huge luck over judgement got the thing in somehow straight in the slot. You guessed it.....the whole place was totally devoid of any sign of life. Post-apocalyptic eeriness as I drove against the lassoed and tied-off-in-4-seconds sternline to keep against the windward finger.....anticlimax or what?

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you for that. Yes perhaps sometimes I go too fast but then of course the beauty of video is that you can pause it or rewind. I'll bear the speed thing in mind. And yes, my favourite, the spring. As a single hander that's how I always do it. I had this in the video and then realised this video was about the problems and that I will be doing the springing article soon and so want to leave the video of it until then. So, coming soon, is all I can say. And I'll watch the speed. Best, D

[@sfayers3361]

As commented previously. The fender height tip was worthy of the artical alone, a light bulb moment, thank you!

[@Westviewsailing]

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[@crimsonbarrie999]

Excellent, as usual Duncan. Feel a bit better now about trying to get off a mooring agaist 3-4 knots of spring tide, 25 knots of wind aft and pouring rain in The Hamble this summer, in a charter yacht for the first time.

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you. At least you were getting off. Trying to get on if that lot were against you could have been a nightmare. Do check out Stress-Free Sailing

[@Kingfisherk26]

Thanks Duncan this is the first YM vid I have watched and it was very useful. As a new Westerly Berwick owner I now know why my far more experienced friend Michael spent 10mins explaining prop walk to me. At Porthmadog we have the added problem that coming alongside and getting blown onto the mooring can mean getting tangled up on your pick up line (got the t shirt for that one already). John

[@Westviewsailing]

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[@ianhowarth1130]

Awesome video. So true about the meerkat-like audience emerging on their previously deserted decks when things go bad.

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you

[@lubberwalker]

Yes the shouty thing....I have on-board discussions about what I call "transmitting stress" (that spoils the experience for others) and that doing so is a "fail" that only inadequate people who are out of their depth do. Everybody can always see the logic and nod in pensive sage-like agreement....but then they forget...in the heat of the moment (or panic). Once it happens, the heads pop out and then they're shouting even louder through embarrassment and need to look as though they're the in-control guy that's redeeming the situation.....even more heads pop-up...

[@francismontocchio9910]

Great video! Thank you!

[@mikenco]

Lots of nice little tips, very humourous too.

[@noddyandbigears2]

great. very helpful

[@Westviewsailing]

you

[@mymonster156]

Excellent video and presentation! I am a firm believer in midship docking lines especially is single handling a larger boat. Your opinion? Thanks so much.

[@lubberwalker]

Me too. I like to rig a midships lasso on the normal finger side. But I'm usually just 1st mate with 2 YM's who alternate as skipper (well that's how each outing starts out) and they tend to ignore me or snort at this idea. They're fixed on getting a stern line on before driving forward on that to get alongside....usually grinding away on the bowthruster to get there...AND it's just a fin. I'm just waiting for the day my midships loop prevents the cacophony. I think the difference is that they think that there's a risk things won't work because someone fouls up whereas I assume it's not if but when things go wrong EVEN when everybody has done everything right. Also an instructor tipped me that it was a good short-handed tactic or a contingency (plan B) for when your crew is un-fumbling their lines. Also, I independently "invented" the fendor-flip and Mr. Wells is patently in patent breach.

[@paulcurzon146]

Nice

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you

[@MajorJimPlays]

slow is pro!

[@stevenr8606]

There is NO WAY anyone can know just what time they will be returning to their birth, specially in a return emergency.

[@Westviewsailing]

Well they should. Plan ahead. I do.

[@svalchemy]

Duncan, I just cited this video as an authority in a Cruisers' Forum query: www.cruisersforum.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=2160679

[@Westviewsailing]

Thank you