There are two types of sailors - those who had problems while mooring their boat and those who will. It is good there are people around ready to help!

noone injured - nothing damaged - everyone got a little physical work out - perfect mooring.

With only an emergency tiller and windy conditions, the best solution is to remind focused on the main goal: moor the boat safely even if it's not in "required position". Everything else is secondary. In this condition trying to moor the boat with 90° angle of the wind looks to be not the best solution. Come in the wind and moor direcllty on the warf ; a single line at the bow of the ship and on on one warf's boolard and you are safe. Ok, your take 3 or 4 room place, but you are safe. After that, prepare a simple translation using lines in the correct position and enough people to haul the boat parallel to the other boat. It's a common error to stay focused to the initial goal: if the things goes wrong : adapt your project and find simpler solution. And yes, it's clearly windy that day, but not 40 knots in this exact position at this time. They are in the harbour and the wind is lower.

Remember, the best captains are always the ones safely on land yelling at you.

Give the guys a break! They have suffered steering failure and are using the emergency tiller. I've never used one, but I have been told they are extremely difficult to handle. Attempting to moor stern-to in those conditions with the emergency tiller would have been near impossible, so they have used the other boat plus warps. It may not have been pretty, but they got the job done.

agree with Andrzej, he is on emergency tiller which is not easy to use ! Defo not 40 knots, more like 15knots max !! For all of you out their who think its easy, then think again ! It is incredibly difficult to moor a yacht in any breeze at all ! never ever think its easy when you watch a sailor try, it takes years of experience and failure !

Seems crazy to try backing up a light Bavaria 36 cruiser (?) in those conditions, especially if there were lazy lines available! Just go bows in, sometimes better if there are shelves or rocks near the wall as there are in a lot of Med harbours. With a loop rigged between the two forward cleats the skipper could nose up to within a metre of the quay, crew member drops the loop over one of the bollards available and then picks up the lazy line. All over except for opening a beer! Stepping off the bow is a bit of a pain but no reason not to switch ends once the wind has dropped. What you learn from experience is that there is more than one way to do things! As someone else commented, even going alongside was an option until it all calmed down as there was so much quay available!

There are bunch of heroes and professionals (!) in youtube's comment section judging by just watching the video. This youtube comment culture has to be changed for good.

Молодцы ребята. Им было сложно но они хорошо справились.

Know the port well. If you've got bora you get it from starbord right through the harbours entrance. Solution is: go astern with some speed from the harbours entry turn in leeward astern beside the berthed neighbour stop up get your windward aftspring fixed QUICK engage the prop until your lean on your neighbour disengage the prop take the mooring from the marinero

The hardest part about docking boats is.... watching people, and there is like hundred people :D

What an absolute clusterfuck. Ill prepared to dock a boat in any conditions, much less these. Lines under fenders, failure to cleat off lines, throwing a "clump" of line, instead of a coil- it's just a total mess. Glad that wasn't my boat chartered out to these clowns.

All's well that ends well!

Not a bad job considering the conditions and having to use the emergency tiller.would have been easier to put a bowline on the stern warp, get the helper ashore to put it over the bollard and use the yachts winch to bring the stern to the quay, rather than have five people ashore pulling there bollocks off.

Its called med mooring, he should have at least 3X chain out and reverse in. I have a Bavaria 38 and after some years of sailing never had that problem. I am glad that they did not charter my boat, complete plonkers.

What seems to be the problem??

First thaught is to come along side the wall - extend the line to the mooring attach stern lines then transition to the correct position - no flapping about in a beam wind and no stressing - did good though apart from a tangled line and alot of confused shouting

Prerequisite: take a sharp lookout if the marinero keep the moorings pilot line on the quay if the line is in the water you might get it in the screw.

WTF ...!!!??? Thank goodness for the shore-side samarathans helping 'em to dock ...

Hi doesn't have a wheel, he uses an emergency tiller, as clearly visible from 3:05

how many villagers does it take to dock at sail boat?

Not easy in those conditions. Lots of armchair admirals here.

They had broken steering wheel mechanism and were using just steering pine - difficult to properly steer a boat floating backwards...

It 's not right to make fool of the sailors in trouble. The situation with side wind was very difficult for landing.The sailor should go firstly with the stern into the wind and tried to land on windward side of other boats. In this case a boat is landing on the leeward side of the moored boats and they should be very fast on mooring in tethering of the bow. Skipper should help with the wheel into the wind and with a few gas (at fixed stern).

these people should not be allowed to be on the water on there own. Everything that you should not do they did. Unfortunately we always encounter these cowboys in so many harbours around the world.

why didnt they just anchor and wait for the wind to die down?

All hands on dock!

it is not easy to park in such weather conditions,but.....they could put boat side along the peer...it would be better for such wast knowlidge of sailing they had :)

40 knots?

Oh my god!! Qui sont ces marins du dimanche !! Probablement un voilier de Loc avec des néophytes à bord , heureusement qu'ils étaient au port et qu'on leurs à donner un coup de min ...

The rudder wheel didnt function - the boat was driven by the spare rod.

Oh gosh, if they werent nervous from the beginning all those guys screaming sure made it all worse!

you still need a certificate of competence to rent a boat like that... prolly got his from the back of a cereal box.

It's called a Med tie up. Drop the anchor and slide back into the dock.

İt s a charter boat and they are maybe second time on a boat.Thanks god they moored in a harbour. We have lots of them at south turkey....

Keep safe pray for safety Ľ

That was fun to watch

Czech crew... We are landlocked for a reason.

That's not anywhere near 40 knots. Nobody's perfect, we all have our moments eh?

Doesn't look like even close to 40 kts of wind, 20-25 at the very most...

40 knots is about 8/9 Beaufort.

two rather small fenders , well four larger fenders would make it easier.maybe just go bow in , throw a warp to other boat from stern.......

Windy and … clumsy !…

Everyone can have a big boat when they aren't able to handle and dock it..

40 Knoten Wind ist zwarn nicht wenig, aber etwas unfähig stellen sich die Kollegen schon an.

40 knots? Yeah, right.

hey seriosly guys take a skipper next time if you don't know is not your fault, understandable, but if you are approaching my boat like that, you will get in deep trouble!believe me

NIXE YACHTING PALERMO Come to Palermoooo ! Come to Sicily

rental boats ??????????????

3:15 hahahaha xD

Que desastre de tripulação!

erm....... no sailing seen in this video.......

why in the hell doesnt he just park it alomgside the dock instead of desperatly trying to park parallel with the other boat, at leasr till the wind drops. i dont understand why in europe people obstintly wanna park that way

Windy day makes docking difficult. So they weren't professional sailors, so what? They did all right. Leave them alone, at least they were out there doing it and not sat on the sofa like all us commenters....

Job was done.

BYC1984 : you're right!!! I'm a German and probably you know the Germany.... all is correct ;-) so it's not good when people do the "Patent" in croatia!!! They can't sailing!!!

The worst thing about the sailing community is its propensity to mock inexperienced sailors. These were some very tough conditions and they were faced with a crowd of panicky people who think they know best all shouting conflicting instructions at them. Wind makes the inexperienced panicky and shouty leading to confusion and mistakes. Rather than shouting back why not calm the situation down? Anyway what is the problem? They got in in under 4 minutes and the boat is still floating!

the tenchen...

12 - 14 knots ok. Not 40 ....

Hihihihi!!!!

OMG whats all the fuss about,fair enough unexperienced captain obviously cause once bow was secured to the other boat ,the rest wouldve been simple,all steer/rudder to port side,one good kick of reving the engine, which with the saildrive prop it has it wouldve reacted imedeatly turning the boat 90 degrees side by side to the other boat, specialy when the strong wind wouldve hit stbrd side and helped in turn,then reversed strongly with all steering/rudder to starboard side and quickly securing ropes to aft of other boat and land,and voila u are side by side tied :) ok before anybody starts with all that,yesyes very easy from the keyboard sailors point of veiw etc,i am a profesional captain who owns the same boat but bigger,a 41 foot bavaria,so i know what im talkin about,that wouldve been the right manouver ;) but as i say probably unexperienced captain and crew,so yes i guess simple things can turn complicated in these cases... :/

A boatload of clowns. By the way, you do not knot a line to a boat, you make it fast.

amareur seamenship

What the fuck are they trying to acheive

they are Czech, that is the problem :)

haha, anfänger unglück, mal en bissel üben gehn leute

they were from a mountain :P

There are no "ropes" on a boat ..stop saying "ropes"...

ukraine and belarus???

kot asistent nimaš blage veze