Agreed, enjoyable videos but always in a very expensive new twin screw boat. I would like to see it with a 25ft single stern drive (Like mine:))

Ok same scenario using no thruster This is want we really need to see

The same here if there is some side wind and I'm not in my home berth where all lines are prepared at the dock. Tying to any other cleat first will quickly let the stern or bow drift too much.

I have a 40 foot Tiara with twin diesels. No bow thruster. Would it come in handy? Perhaps but with diesels (like the yacht in this video) low torque is more important. I have no issue docking the Tiara even in snotty conditions. However I also have a 32 foot Everglades center console with twin 300's. It has a bow thruster and I find myself using it quite often in windy situations because the outboards do not have low torque like the Tiara.

@@treydrier3169 Hi Trey,is your 40 ft tiara a stern-drive/outdrive like the boat in this vid or do you have twin shafts?

Just what I was thinking - dual motors and bow thruster is easy. Single engine and rudder with no bow thruster and 50' of windage aloft - that's a challenge (but of course 6 feet and 5000 kg of keel below helps).

@@kingwr12 not to mention power steering

Why is your other hand normally up the skirt of some BROAD! -(colloquial American slang term denoting a female).

True ,George, also worth mentioning that outdrives (stern-drives), tend to sometimes, depending on propeller sizes,has little prop-walk- aka-; transverse thrust, hence the reason for driving that vessel like it has an outboard engine.

YOU DO CLIVE, YOU DO ,JUST THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND CLIVE!

Sterndrives/outdrives means less transverse thrust than twin shafts.

You get far greater spin created with outdrives turned full lock and single engine engaged. You can of course still get a lot of spin happening with twins driving opposite directions but i find far faster spin created using single and full lock

Really? Could have fooled me. Looks like there is literally zero wind and not even a ripple in the marina.

Do you wash your clothes by hand just to make it the old way?

@@skunkjobb skunks don't wear clothes? ,but regardless prefer to stink anyways.

@@kenlee-97 Skunks don't stink normally but they can spray and make other animals stink. The point is that if there is modern equipment facilitating life, why the hell not use it then? Would you go down to the harbor and tell the captain of a container ship "Don't use the bow thruster, there are tug boats for that!"? I find it ridiculous to trash talk bow thrusters. They are very good for docking and undocking. If you don't want to use them, fine, I wont come pulling your drain plug for that.

Ha ha Mike...well i have to sort of sympathize with you..BUT: my dad was old school, and all we had was twin engines, and a lot of guidance from my old man himself - nevertheless I am grateful for the bow thruster these days, if it makes it easier and safer - why not!! ??

@@panosp94 ....sigh... the point is 90% of the boats out there have no bow thruster.

@@treydrier3169 indeed... but not only bow thrusters...will give you another analogy: i happen to be a pilot as well, when i was trained it was old school guages, where one had to really understand how they work, INSIDE, and how they transmit information to the pilot, and only then comes the part where the pilot interprets the information and makes a judgment call. Today, with the Glass cockpit being so ubiquitous even in the smallest of aircraft (and boats) it took me years to accept that flight students didnt really have to go through the pain of training with old antiquated technologies but embrace the new. I also thought theyre "cheating'" by having all this information at their fingertips while we had to really calculate our way to qualified information. . I guess its also a matter of our personal comfort zone as well. dont you think?

And how exactly are you supposed to run a stern line if there is noone on the dock?? You've obviously never docked a boat.

Sorry you are TOTALLY CORRECT, AS THAT PERSON CAN FALL OVERBOARD AND BE KILLED BY THE PROPS-(A MASTER-

@@mariscalcus7 Hi Maris, great question, what I would do is to suggest to throw the bight of the line (rope), so that it catches on the bollard on the wharf to then secure the boat and then the loose end that you now have in your hand, to secure it to the same cleat on the boat as you have already attached the other end of the rope on already. In the interests of safety, you should do all of this preferably standing on a part of the vessel that you normally walk on, that's not anywhere close to falling off the swim platform into the water. Cheers.

On boats of this size, most have bow thrusters.

@@skunkjobb fair enough but I've just bought a 31ft sports cruiser which doesn't have bow thrusters. I'm guessing most people don't buy a massive 50ft as their first boat. These instructional videos are only relevant to boat owners with bow thrusters... which means a big vessel... which probably means prior experience and no need to watch videos. So I still don't see the point of these videos.