As someone who owned and drove cruisers quite a bit in the Netherlands I'd like to make this point: Practice makes perfect, never be ashamed to try and become familiar with your boat. I got to the point where I could reverse into a narrow boathouse without using bow-thrusters, regardless the wind, just by practising for hours. Might have driven my wife insane at the time, but man did she like the control when approaching a tricky mooring! As an experienced skipper said - a bad skipper blames his crew.

Nice informative and educational video... Thank you for sharing... Regards

Split-screen would be useful then we could see as you talk the reaction of the craft. Good show anyway.

Good review

Thank you so much 👍

Nice video & vary informative. Where can I find videos with a overview of all the controls on a boat such as this to show what they are, what they do & how the controllers work?? If someone can help me, let me know please, Thanks.

very nice way to learn motions of boat in port

tip 1 and 3 were the same. if you use the wind right, can do it with a single engine boat too. done it with a rib last year

I love all of these videos but would love a few of these guides with single stern drives.

Very very very Good

Like too see him do it on the conwy river! on a full spring tide running at 8knots

Nice video. For me, this would have been a little easier to follow had the helm shots been looking over the shoulder of the helmsman to give a POV perspective.

I have never seen anyone work the steering wheel that much. But it worked

That joystick is amazing

Also one of those Tube Bandages on the index finger helps

Next time it would be cool if the camera view was over his shoulder

What boat are you using in this video? Some Sort of azimut?

Unfortunately the video did not make use of a double screen one showing the helm, another a synchronized aerial view if the vessel while maneuvering.

Now do it with some wind and current. And hands off the bow thruster. That would make it impressive!

I've come to the conclusion after watching some videos my controls are the issue they are so hard to move

Seeing the boat that was used in the example, I was expecting him to just say "push both bow and stern thruster sticks towards the dock" or "move the joystick to the side"

Is it IPS we have the same boat.

UH! NANI!? Kansei Dorifto!

He said the boat has stern drives and a joystick, did he mean IPS drives?

Can a single engine boat be walked sideways? I have a Tahoe Q6 so that is a 20ft bow rider. Any reason I couldn't learn how to do it in mine?

wow it must be hard to maneuver a boat with 2 props and a bow thruster

"The English and Americans are two peoples divided by a common language." .....Bernard Shaw ☺

He used thrusters almost every time . Do it without any thrusters

Ah, ah, ah…@5:35 you cheated with the bow thruster

:)))) Funny video

do not see the point with the joystick when one have thrusters

No wind and no current

What boat is that?

Jesus, what a performance. "This is a boy with a toy"

Twin engines w. bow thrusters and a joystick. If someone w. that setup is watching a KZfaq video on how to maneuver a boat, then they should sell their boat.

Thrusters..... give me a break....

All very nice...now add wind, waves, current, other boats coming in and out with angry pilots, fatigue after a big day, non-electronic controls, non power steering, no bow thruster, no joy stick and concrete edges on the dock. Please do that video. If you can nail that you'll be a legend.

I seen the bow thrusters at the end. Cheater lol

Instructions unclear--boat sitting on surface of dock

Having all those different options like bow thrustor etc this video is totally unnecessary. If you can´t move the boat with such help - sell the boat and do something else!!

Terrible teacher. Too much waffle

Come on man you have bow thrusters