Go outside where you won't hit anything. Drive around in reverse at various
speeds. Practice.
The 30-1 has an offset prop. It doesn't back well in good conditions (20
year owner). So the prop walk (the sidewards motion that the prop exerts on
the boat) coupled with the offset make it doubly difficult to back. You must
have some speed on to make it do anything in reverse and when you throttle
up, it will have more prop walk.
I have found that if you get it going in reverse and headed where you want
it to go, then throttle down and let the rudder do its thing. If you keep
the engine going, the prop walk will screw you up. I stand next to the wheel
facing aft and drive it like a car, it seems to make more sense.
But practice. I still have problems at times. For your docking situation, I
would work on making up a mid-ships cleat arrangement where you can sneak up
on the piling outside your slip, grab the piling and pivot the boat into the
slip. Because the tide movement and the wind variations will make every
effort you have different from the last.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curtis" <cpt.b...@gmail.com>
To: <CnC-List@cnc-list.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:25 AM
Subject: Stus-List C&C 30 MK1 backing help
As a new sailboat owner and no experance backing.
can I get some insite as to how to back one of these boat into a slip.
I am on a inside finger dock in the AICW Is South carolina.
We have 8 foot tides and a 2 knot current at times. My bow faces the
north and we have a predomanently southerl wind 4-12 knots.
Any help would be great.
--
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
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