Docking in a Tidal Stream with Tom Cunliffe

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2 жыл бұрын

Docking can be an anxious experience at the best of times for many but add in the tide and it can become downright stressful - but it doesn’t have to be. The tide can be your friend.
Watch as Tom Cunliffe offers food for thought before docking in a tide, as well as demonstrating how best to approach coming into a berth with the tide running.
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@jaysonlima7196 Жыл бұрын

So about two years ago, I brought my Glenayr up the Piscataqua River and into a berth for the first time, and not being used to the extreme currents that river produces was terrifying. Just over 5 knots of current and running at about hair over half throttle simply to hold position. The pucker factor was through the roof! And the marina being just down stream of a bridge made for some interesting edies as well. Lined up to come down the fairway and we had to be all of 75° off of intended track just to go where I wanted her too. Once in the fairway proper, There's no turning back now, pass the finger pier and cut the helm to starboard and jamb the throttles forward to have her lerch and creep into the slip. Overall it wasn't actually difficult, just frightening, which led to comments from the dock master about how maybe I'd done that before... another proud moment brought to you by soiled underware!

@MDLMarinas Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great story, replacement underwear will be in the mail!

@jonybeam21 8 ай бұрын

i know that feeling very well.Last weekend with about 15 knots of current and said to the harbour master hey up chucky now that's what i call a reverse round the corner park and you know what?He agreed!

@MrDoyley35 Ай бұрын

@@jonybeam2115kts of current? Unlikely 😂

@StefJuncker Жыл бұрын

"it will end on tears!" love it. You are very funny and an excellent teacher... Thanks. Stef Juncker, owner Parapax tandem paragliding Cape Town

@sailingmrnice 9 ай бұрын

The stream outside St Katherine's dock on the Thames is the scariest ever, I was solo in a 37' managed to get a line onto the ferry pontoon.

@billholcomb2730 2 жыл бұрын

Excelllent Tom. Shoreline transits are great advice.

@davidcoulling9521 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant as always- many thanks for another wonderful video and one I will be putting into practice on my day skipper practical in July no doubt on the Hamble:-)

@Oceancharter 8 ай бұрын

The king ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge

@anesthesiabeyond8519 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! A great teaching video! 👍👍👍 Thank you 🙏 thank goodness

@Dreancaidi 3 ай бұрын

So easy to follow.

@akathesquid5794 2 жыл бұрын

Slip selection criteria is great. I waited for my home marina slip. Dead south in a s/sw prevailing wind area. Directly into incoming tide. First dock facing this tide so clean flow. 6th dock in outgoing tide so flow is almost negligible in that "wrong" direction. Port finger and starboard approach. Also perfect for my prop-walk reversing out into the fairway. Worth the wait and dockmaster bribe. But also makes me soft and completely useless in any challenging marina situation.

@nickwebb9290 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tom for another wonderful ‘how to’ 👍

@Mikeandlucy1 8 ай бұрын

Oh Tom, you make it look so easy, what you haven't factored in though is the difficulty in moving about the boat with your buttocks clenched tighter than a drum as you near the pontoon.

@TheBeasag Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom, can you possibly do a video on solo docking into a marina pontoon, using a single spring line and other methods

@catspaw3815 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely done

@robertscott7591 2 жыл бұрын

Nice one Tom, how about adding some wind into the mix, I would definitely benefit from that how to.

@markreed1768 Жыл бұрын

Legend

@epicnavigator Жыл бұрын

Hello captain! Can we do the same up-tide maneuver but with the stern against the current? I mean By reversing in to the current

@jonnorousseau3096 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, I suppose it's a similar situation without tidal stream but with windage, I've had situations where I've had to berth beam to a strong breeze, 25 Kn true, always easier to go into it than with it especially when turning the boat beam to the wind. You need to keep water moving over your rudder at all times, I think tide is easier than breeze, but again same principles apply

@columkenn Жыл бұрын

How many attempts were made before we saw the edited version))

@AdrianSmythe 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video... But I respectfully disgree with the final point, about how to approach the port-side berth. As you say, the tide is our friend, so rather than going down the way, turning and coming into the berth that way; I'd come in as you did, but even slower, and then straighten the boat out using the tidal flow over the rudder, and then enter the berth stright on. That'd be even easier than how the demo to the starboard side was done; and I'd have no qualms doing that single handedly even. Just my humble opinion... 🙂 I'd back into a downstream berth doing a similar thing... use the current, forward trottle, and the rudder to 'side-slip' and then ease you into the berth (although I'd not do that solo). But I agree that it's not worth berthing bow-to downstream.