Well - it's amazing how many helmsmen still manage to make a "horlicks" of it. On this occasion, admittedly, there was very little wind and what there was was blowing onto the port side of the boat (and therefore tending to blow the Trader away from the pontoon) - but obviously the twin screws and the thrusters make it easier - provided, that is, that you know what you're doing with them.
Now do it with single screw and no thrusters + there is easily enough room to turn it around! I might of been slightly impressed if he had done at 3 times the speed.
Why put "dont try this at home!!"? - it is so simple. I have a 30' Versatility 30 MFV with 3' draft and inboard diesel SINGLE prop and NO other help. Docking my boat is really a trial and if you have tight spaces as we do here in Baltimore harbour, West Cork, with backwash from the frequent 2 ferries and strange currents that occur inside the harbour, well, it never is easy and almost always several attempts, but I get far more satisfaction by actually achieving my manoeuvres without twin engines, or bow thrusters.
Got to be honest a good helm wouldn't require a bow thruster and certainly not a stern thruster. Plus he had the biggest bit of pontoon ever. We stick boats that size and bigger into gaps with little inches to spare without all the driver aid rubbish. The amount of people that rely upon silly thrusters and the when you really need them they stop working. How good are you then!.
I have a 40 footer twin engine with a full enclosure (like a sail with any wind) and NO THRUSTERS .. this boat having bow AND stern thrusters??.. he should be ashamed to be anything less than perfect... gorgeous boat though...
This video was posted on U tube, by an unknown person, without the boat owners knowledge, and only recently found by accident when searching for something else on the internet. It is just a routine berthing operation.
Good God with twins and mixer's you parked it...you didn't dock it...wind from the Port... there's a bank and a building blocking it..! Good God man stay on the dock please !
I agree. I just don't understand why so many people have watched this video. Nothing goes wrong - no matter how many times it's run! To be fair though the helmsman and the boat had nothing to do with making the vid.
Whats great about this? with all those toys on board any muppet could put that alongside. Try a single engine with wind and tide pushing and pulling it all over the place then that would be somthing.
Sweet looking yacht! Will you adopt me? But seriously, what's the point? Bow and Stern thrusters? Holy crap a blind guy could dock a boat with those! No current, no wind, no one in your way? Should have (and looks like it was) a cake walk. Impress us by nosing in and spring lining around the stern with just the engines! Some day, your thrusters might not work. It's nice to know how to do it the old fashioned way. I'm still open for that adoption though! :-)
there was enough room for a 90 foot boat on that dock. no wind whatsoever, bow and stern thrusters and plenty of room. i make that docking with my eyes shut after consuming 8 beers and catching 200 pounds of fish. not worthy of a youtube vid there guy. geez.
Great manouvering. With side thrusters, it's so much easier, and I noted that the water was clam, with little wind (perhaps). This kind of weather is excellent for some docking training. On the other hand, some old-school guys love to use the "hard way out" by nosing in and spring lining around the stern. It's just like parellel-parking a longish Porsche Panamera. Do you rely on audio and visual electronic parking aids, or do you just "park by feel/judgement"?
why do it at the hardway?? I'm 15 years old and hav done it before, without bow thrusters.... it was a 40ft sunseeker so it was a smaller boat but still...
Everybody is right, there is nothing much to watch here. Penarth marina is very sheltered under a cliff, so most boats just go where they are meant to. The agent for these Taiwan boats based a lot of boats here, so was probably heading for the fuel pontoon very frequently. I suspect he didn't think as much of the process as the cameraman.
That is nothing. I know a 10 year old kid that regularly backs a single engine 85 foot 120 ton shrimp boat down a quarter mile long canal with two feet on either side. Granted that is a little exceptional, but where I come from most any kid over 14 could have handled this boat and made this guy look like a beginner. most of us had boats before we had bicycles.
rbodell btw that’s kinda illegal considering you need to be 18 to have a license to drive a boat of that weight. Can’t just have a standard operating license on anything more than 100 tons
"Dont try this at home"?
With Twin diesels and a bow thruster it aint rocket science.
Ain't that the truth 😂😂😂
Nice job and one of my favourite boats
Well - it's amazing how many helmsmen still manage to make a "horlicks" of it. On this occasion, admittedly, there was very little wind and what there was was blowing onto the port side of the boat (and therefore tending to blow the Trader away from the pontoon) - but obviously the twin screws and the thrusters make it easier - provided, that is, that you know what you're doing with them.
Yep, and if you don't you don't belong to that chair. :-)
Did you forget to mention that you have bow and stern thrusters? No wind and current either. I don't see what is so impressive about this.
me too, with a boat like this a child can do the job
It clearly says in the video that it has bow and stern thrusters so I don't know why you talk about forgetting that.
Agreed with the comments, this is easy peasy. Twin screws and thrusters, no current or wind and plenty of room. A cave man could do it.
Now do it with single screw and no thrusters + there is easily enough room to turn it around!
I might of been slightly impressed if he had done at 3 times the speed.
Why put "dont try this at home!!"? - it is so simple.
I have a 30' Versatility 30 MFV with 3' draft and inboard diesel SINGLE prop and NO other help. Docking my boat is really a trial and if you have tight spaces as we do here in Baltimore harbour, West Cork, with backwash from the frequent 2 ferries and strange currents that occur inside the harbour, well, it never is easy and almost always several attempts, but I get far more satisfaction by actually achieving my manoeuvres without twin engines, or bow thrusters.
my dog could dock a boat with bow and stern thrusters. this is nothing special. twin diesels are not worth mentioning either, with the thrusters.
Scooby's Scoop I’m inclined to agree. I’d like to see them do this in a 4kt current with a 20kt cross-wind!
Beautiful boat !👋
Got to be honest a good helm wouldn't require a bow thruster and certainly not a stern thruster. Plus he had the biggest bit of pontoon ever. We stick boats that size and bigger into gaps with little inches to spare without all the driver aid rubbish. The amount of people that rely upon silly thrusters and the when you really need them they stop working. How good are you then!.
and he's making a right meal of it too!!
If you have two engines you surely don't need bow and stern thrusters as well???
Sounds like a river boat from Rambo. Stinky, polluting thing that is. Nice maneuvering though
I could do that single screw. Backing down is much easier than nosing in.
Not a big deal anyway. Coulod be easily done with no trusters and a single engine :)
That beats the heck out of what I used to have to do on my 48' in Brisbane, CA with 30 knot winds, no thrusters.
I have a 40 footer twin engine with a full enclosure (like a sail with any wind) and NO THRUSTERS .. this boat having bow AND stern thrusters??.. he should be ashamed to be anything less than perfect... gorgeous boat though...
As in anything. Car, house and boats are no better than who owns them. If your friends was junk most likely it is because of long term neglect.
bow thrusters where is big deal? No wind No thight squeeze No Tide=easy
MORE THAN EASY
Nothing special, no wind no current u can use a paddle to dock in these condition.
I could do that with my eyes closed man! No wind, protected from wake and he had a HUGE lane to work with.
I thought the skipper of this Trader handled it well - but I have absolutely no idea why so many people have viewed this rather modest video!
This video was posted on U tube, by an unknown person, without the boat owners knowledge, and only recently found by accident when searching for something else on the internet. It is just a routine berthing operation.
Good God with twins and mixer's you parked it...you didn't dock it...wind from the Port... there's a bank and a building blocking it..! Good God man stay on the dock please !
Talk about laughable self praise...
Come on.. with thtusters is super easy. I could have done it without... No wind current etc.... Thrusters are for real big or people who cant handle,,
I agree. I just don't understand why so many people have watched this video. Nothing goes wrong - no matter how many times it's run! To be fair though the helmsman and the boat had nothing to do with making the vid.
Whats great about this? with all those toys on board any muppet could put that alongside. Try a single engine with wind and tide pushing and pulling it all over the place then that would be somthing.
Sweet looking yacht! Will you adopt me?
But seriously, what's the point? Bow and Stern thrusters? Holy crap a blind guy could dock a boat with those! No current, no wind, no one in your way? Should have (and looks like it was) a cake walk.
Impress us by nosing in and spring lining around the stern with just the engines! Some day, your thrusters might not work. It's nice to know how to do it the old fashioned way. I'm still open for that adoption though! :-)
That was NOT impressiv...rather boring!
there was enough room for a 90 foot boat on that dock. no wind whatsoever, bow and stern thrusters and plenty of room. i make that docking with my eyes shut after consuming 8 beers and catching 200 pounds of fish. not worthy of a youtube vid there guy. geez.
NO I won't try it at home. But I will try it with my vessel on the water.😂😂
Great manouvering.
With side thrusters, it's so much easier, and I noted that the water was clam, with little wind (perhaps). This kind of weather is excellent for some docking training.
On the other hand, some old-school guys love to use the "hard way out" by nosing in and spring lining around the stern.
It's just like parellel-parking a longish Porsche Panamera.
Do you rely on audio and visual electronic parking aids, or do you just "park by feel/judgement"?
Nice video but dumb hype
why do it at the hardway?? I'm 15 years old and hav done it before, without bow thrusters.... it was a 40ft sunseeker so it was a smaller boat but still...
Everybody is right, there is nothing much to watch here. Penarth marina is very sheltered under a cliff, so most boats just go where they are meant to. The agent for these Taiwan boats based a lot of boats here, so was probably heading for the fuel pontoon very frequently. I suspect he didn't think as much of the process as the cameraman.
Oh please. If it hand been a single engine boat with no thrusters it might have been with watching. This is just pathetic.
Dont see why reverse was needed.. except that you over shot the fuel wharf
Great maneouvering. Dead calm day in a confined marina with twin screws and fore&aft thrusters. Kids - do it anytime! I dare you to get it wrong!
calling the boat way too many [shes] its not that nice its old and not nice
that thing would be so easy to dock way you talking bout it is so small
not real, but thrusters make handling and docking much more easier
That was not hard to do!
Awful boats those traders too, my friend owned a trader 70 called quintessence. pile of junk it was too!
You smell
That space is huge! You should see him park it in their home birth.
That is nothing. I know a 10 year old kid that regularly backs a single engine 85 foot 120 ton shrimp boat down a quarter mile long canal with two feet on either side. Granted that is a little exceptional, but where I come from most any kid over 14 could have handled this boat and made this guy look like a beginner. most of us had boats before we had bicycles.
rbodell how old is this boat I don’t remember the last 40 foot boat without 2 engines
rbodell btw that’s kinda illegal considering you need to be 18 to have a license to drive a boat of that weight. Can’t just have a standard operating license on anything more than 100 tons
Not that hard. Do it all the time
LOL....I really think the caption was meant to be a joke. I'm laughing no matter what..lol
Not impressive with thrusters.
easy as pie with bow thrusters
nice video!
Total waste of time.
Twins with fore and aft thrusters...a caveman could do it
nothing special..
And your video is where?
whats the big deal?
Where's your video then?
Your are the best
youtube is a mystery
BFD
piss easy.......just do everything slow
HEY! Anyone docked under sail alone?? I have. lol
crap.