Great to see how much detail a professional skipper talks about, good awareness of other water users. Always annoys me with KZfaq videos when people say that skippering a boat is easy because there is nothing to do other than throttle and steering! Very informative. Great vid

Thing i love in this video, is that he shows it with targa. BEAUTIFULL.

Great drone footage and very clearly explained, it's just the footage of the electronic plotter is all reflection.

this was excellent. I liked the drone view too, I'd add that because of these videos I've gone and booked a day skipper course! Thanks for giving me such a great insight

That was a lovely sunny trip! Thank you!

I found that video extremely informative and interesting. great video

You are a great captain

Stumbled on this videoseries and this video gives thurough and good information just as all the other videos I've seen. As for HU vs NU... working as a 2nd Officer on a merchant vessel, I can say that I always use NU on my ECDIS. Sometimes I use HU on my radar screen in narrow channels, but the Electronic chart always stays the same as the paper chart. And that''s a good practice to stick to just in case you have to jump over to a paper chart, it reduces risk of confusion. Most of my colleagues I know do the same.

Thanks. An interesting look at following a course entered into the plotters advising the course and when to make your turn etc. And also as you pointed out keeping a good eye on all that is going on around you

Excellent information really useful

Great video sir, a beautiful boat and gorgeous place as well. You make it so easy to understand and enjoy which of course is the whole point. I would love to have that boat in Carlingford Marina as the lough here is always quiet,except for the wonderful large ships coming in each day..Take care!

Interesting video. Unfortunately there was a fair amount of glare when looking at the electronic chart.

These videos are amazing, thank you for all the information shared!

Superb, enjoyed watching and learning 👍, keep these how to vids coming if you can.

Valuable input as usual, thanks

Very instructive, many thanks 👍

Really informative and useful. Thanks

Lovely video. Very practical and very well presented. Thank you

Great stuff you make it look easy

"Bimble along" thats what officers do 😆

excellant video thank you

Lekker man lekker

John...you need a bigger boat! All hunched over like that. This was a really interesting video. I'm going to have to watch it again though as there was a lot of info. Poole harbour always looks to me like a sea of buoys, markers, posts and whatever else...then there is moored yachts and a multitude of craft going in every direction. It also looks like some people seem to use the centre of the channel which makes things a bit difficult.

The head-up mode is like playing video games - all good

When you set a plot course, do you still have to watch out for your depth or does the plotter only take you through deep waters. I have lots of sandbanks in my area and boats often run aground on them. How does that happen when they have depth gauges?

Apart from having the sun in the middle of the screen so couldn’t see what you were pressing to get the chart up. Well. It was every time you looked at the screen. You couldn’t see it. But other than that. That was excellent.

How come sometimes you pass with red on your starboard and then you switch to red on your portside when seemingly going in the same direction.

If there’s one thing I learnt from that it’s that the Targa isn’t suited for a tall guy. I watched Jon permanently hunched as he stood at the wheel and just having to duck to keep his eyeline below the top of the forward screen and the instrumentation tucked up there. I’ve never driven the Targa, but have spent many a Southampton Boat Show trying to wipe my blatant dribble from the wheel and instrumentation. I’m 6’3” and I couldn’t keep up that position for much longer than the harbour transit before I had to take to the helm seating. On the plus side a great video for the chart plotter use. A friend who is old and bold RN swears by North Up - he even has his car set up for it. All I would add is that at speeds that probably start as the boat slips onto the plane it’s very disconcerting to have your rapidly approaching marks or hazards appear from left or right. I accept that the old North Up method is excellent for a Sailing Yacht and all my old sailing qualifications were learnt in that fashion. But the world moved on and fast planing boats, I would suggest, need to orient the skipper with what’s ahead and in their forwards field of vision. Most of those coming new into the sport now come from a time when Sat Navs in the Head Up position are standard in their cars and they find it entirely common place to use that system. If the discussion ensues, as it surely will, then think long about the opposing position to the one you hold dear. There is room for both and maybe you should look at one becoming a pilotage method and one becoming the passage planning/running option. Off you go internet....

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No Autopliot ? It would be nice to have a non glare protective screen protector on the screen.

For those that don't know.... When looking towards the pointy end of the boat (fore), left is port, right is starboard. This doesn't change, port is always the left side when looking at the pointy end, even if looking at the blunt end (aft) and you think it's right, its actually port

I can not see the skrin for the sun

Too much glare on the screen, so no benefit. Pity because it is a major part of the discription. Not enough visual time on the chart to see what is being shown.

jet skis, the rats of the waterways lol

Poor view of chart due to camera angle and glare unfortunately made this useless as a teaching aide

is this guy an ex bootneck?

To bad glare is strong so I cannot follow