How to pick up a mooring buoy when boating single-handed

How to pick up a mooring buoy when boating single-handed | Motor Boat & Yachting

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3 жыл бұрын

Visitors’ mooring buoys are likely to become a lot more prevalent in the years ahead due to concerns about possible anchor damage to sensitive eco-systems, so it’s worth knowing how to pick one up even when cruising single-handed or with guests who aren’t yet up to crewing duties.
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@MotorBoatYachting 3 жыл бұрын

For those asking, the boat is a Windy 28 Ghibli.

@Alex-cw3rz 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😊

@roberthennel 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for these practical "how-to" videos. As a novice boater, I really appreciate these .

@patrickmolloy6994 3 жыл бұрын

another really useful and practical video. Thank you John

@dorflonnigan4413 3 жыл бұрын

Love these how to videos, great information

@cookiemonster2299 3 жыл бұрын

Superb, I was only watching a vid the other day where a boat was on a bouy and I was wondering how to get on and off of one of those, brilliant timing MBY, thanks 👍🙂👏

@mathisdetremmerie9309 3 жыл бұрын

I simply love the how-to series, really clearly explained! I have a question, will you guys make a single engined shaft-drive docking how to? I have asked this before but the response was a (also very good) video of a single engined stern-drive. And there is a big difference in backing in a stern-drive in comparison of a shaft-drive. I would love to see something like that explained by you guys!

@MP_pov 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you

@siyabongablack9344 3 жыл бұрын

We definitely learning thank you 👌🏾

@Roxxettee 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@FinnishPanther 3 жыл бұрын

If you are boating you shouldn't ask yourself "What would Jesus do", but rather "What would Jon Mendez do?" 🙂 I like these how-to videos, keep 'em coming! 👍

@gregovens5040 9 ай бұрын

Good advice no question. Not so easy when its blowing 25 Knots, and a 3 knot current.....!!

@ragnarlothbrok9133 3 жыл бұрын

Nice explanation. We’ll done.

@itdoesntmatterok Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly, very helpful. Dock rental is quite pricey in Toronto so I may be looking into renting a mooring from a yacht club.

@jjrdias 3 жыл бұрын

The BOSS.

@ThatGuy-dj3qr 2 жыл бұрын

The challenge I find is that lacking a swim platform there is no easy place, bow or stern to reach to a morring ball. On my boat, the ball is one very long reach down (3 - 4 feet). I have a snap fitting that I can use to grab the ball by using a telescopic pole, but undoing that snap fitting is quite a feat.

@nexy7455 3 жыл бұрын

nice boat

@gerhardvanwaltsleben8944 3 жыл бұрын

Lekker man lekker

@genetheslof589 2 жыл бұрын

What would your boat cost as equipped?

@martin5504 2 жыл бұрын

What about when you have high topsides, in a current with wind and waves? The conditions in the video are rare.

@Greggspies 3 жыл бұрын

It's harder when you've had 8 pints and your pizza going cold

@PhilbyFavourites 3 жыл бұрын

So you were at the “Cowes Week” Friday Night Fireworks then?

@thomaslord756 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the how to :-) by the way what is the make and model of that boat?

@MotorBoatYachting 3 жыл бұрын

It's a Windy 28 Ghibli

@thomaslord756 3 жыл бұрын

@@MotorBoatYachting thanks 👍

@thomaslord756 3 жыл бұрын

@@MotorBoatYachting thanks 👍

@thomaslord756 3 жыл бұрын

@@MotorBoatYachting Thanks 👍😊

@rpm6085 3 жыл бұрын

Far simpler than when I (in a hired boat small enough to not need a boat licence) tried something like this with all my kids and my wife helping. 🤣

@darthkek1953 3 жыл бұрын

Are you American? I ask because in the UK you can skipper "small" boats / yachts, etc., offshore without a licence or any form of qualification or test. By small I mean upto and including the Princess X95. Google that boat to be impressed just how lax our laws are. :-)

@PhilbyFavourites 3 жыл бұрын

@@darthkek1953 and those boats, in every size and shape, are currently being sold like hot cakes to the “new to boating” ready to explode onto the water at the merest hint of sunshine. Keep a sharp lookout if you are sharing a piece of the water with them... If any of those group of “new to...” are watching this I respectfully suggest a few days RYA approved training before plunging headlong into the skippers chair. Today’s modern vessel, though marvellously well specced, does not come equipped with automatic parking. For that read mooring or coming alongside!

@invisiblerevolution 3 жыл бұрын

What's a mooring buoy???? Bringing that big "yellow" metal thing, so close to your boat, won't that damage it?

@zk9058 3 жыл бұрын

I like ur boat....what is it? And how large?

@MotorBoatYachting 3 жыл бұрын

It's a Windy 28 Ghibli, 28ft long.

@M1911jln 3 жыл бұрын

Buoys here in the US are very different.

@aarem01 3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that buoy scratching the sides of the boat? How can We avoid that?

@FlesHBoX 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. They have rectangular fenders that you could potentially use, but I would still worry about damaging the finish or gelcoat.

@jamessaward8253 3 жыл бұрын

Once the bow line has been threaded a gentle push off the bouy with your foot or boat hook will give you some distance. The wind and or tide will do the rest as you should be downwind.

@simonreid737 3 жыл бұрын

Where is that bay, looks a great place to go and practice

@nickstravels 3 ай бұрын

@@simonreid737 Fishcombe Cove, Brixham, Torbay, Devon. Apologies for late answer, only just discovered this video series!

@fancybobbybob 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t even own a boat...🙁

@handendaer 3 жыл бұрын

🐵👍🏿

@timowen8492 2 жыл бұрын

If you have a problem docking in that calm seas then you probably shouldn’t be on a boat. Backing in to a mooring when it’s blowing would be disasterous