Nathan:
I have a 32....smaller boat....what I did to help backing out from my
slip was to tie a line , double looped with a knot for better grip on my
toe rail just of forward of my starboard gate....let all lines go pull
the boat backward on the slip and step up through the gate to the the
binnacle and put the boat into reverse with already some backward motion
to engage the rudder. Short bursts of reverse and
neutral...repeat.....or if the conditions are right, just back out.
I have days when I get a northeast cross wind that blows my bow out no
matter what.....on those days, I just wait on the slip...all lines
released except a special one mid ship I only use for this
situation....a line from the mid slip deck cleat with a brass snap
shackle I clip to the toe rail....I wait for the puffs and then it
subsidies....when I feel it is right to let go, unshackle, pull on the
line to get reverse before I put the engine in reverse and I have gotten
out without touching the 'aircraft carrier' next to me.....a Nonsuch 36,
very wide and doesn't leave me much room between boats.
Everyone will figure out something that works for them, both getting out
and getting in. And I say this as I single hand most days so I have to
figure something out that works for me.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - #277
Halifax, N.S.
On 2019-01-24 6:39 p.m., Nathan Post via CnC-List wrote:
On my 34 I found I have a lot of prop walk in reverse (worse than other boats I
have helmed - probably due to the two blade folding prop). I had a slip last
summer that only made sense to go in forward (we only have a gate on starboard
and the finger to starboard). I tried a strategy that was discussed on the
list last summer and found that it worked really well for me because I could
get the boat moving backwards and get steerage before putting it in reverse:
1) take a long spring line from the bow and loop it around a dock cleat near
the stern and take it back up on deck to my primary winch and cleat it.
2) Put the engine in gear forward and adjust the helm to hold the bow in place
and remove all other dock lines (the engine and spring line hold the boat in
place).
3) With all crew on board, put engine in neutral, center the helm, and start
pulling the spring line in the cockpit (around the winch). This gets the boat
moving backwards. Keep pulling until the cleat on the dock is even with the
winch and then flip the line off the cleat.
4) once the line is off the cleat with the boat already moving back I can put
her in reverse and accelerate backwards.
This works for single handing and with a crew managing the spring line - avoids
having an inexperienced crew trying to jump on board after the boat is moving.
Having the boat moving so the rudder is working as a foil before putting it in
reverse was the key to avoiding the stern going sideways into my neighbor
rather than backwards.
Nathan Post
S/V Wisper, 1981 C&C34
Malden MA
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