I've only been boating a lot for the past few years. 14' Jon boat. All of these tips and tricks are great to see - really helpful. Appreciate all the videos - and yes I subscribed right away.
Your handrail looks the ideal spot for a short line to quickly tie off onto as you mentioned, I reckon we may see that added by the next video ;) Hope you got in the water today, was a stinker!
Three years late on this vid, a few good tips there Stu. I have always tied up with bow and stern lines loose and used long but taut spring lines cleated a boat length or more forward and aft of the boat as the main controlling lines, especially in areas with a large tidal variation. Always used doubled back spring lines to the boat cleats so all untying is done from the boat, a must for single-handed or short-handed boating.
Hi ya Stu, any chance of a vid on removing frozen bolts with rounded/corroded heads ? Lower unit into power head would be handy. I have tried welding another bolt to frozen bolt, heat, wd40, hammer and chisel, even swearing at it. Cheers Gaz
Hi there Stu and the Green Machine. Knowledge is power, and any information that increases the brains hp is always appreciated. Now we won't have to replace the Bimini or pay to raise our boats from the bottom, or worse, buy a whole new vessel. See, there's many was to save coin for the airfare, cause your right about the trim video, it would take awhile just with saving on fuel. Cheers!
Love the videos . Clearly explaining how to go about things on the water , makes things much easier. Could you do a video about boat ramp launching and Etiquette . We see so many people doing the wrong thing . Slowing down our local boat ramp and causing frustration for other boaters . Thanks Matt
This video covers a bit of that, but having a separate video on etiquette, if only just to make it searchable would be good. th-cam.com/video/svFJeG6BqLo/w-d-xo.html
thanks that video link really just about cover it all . . i like your point about prep the boat away from the boat ramp itself . leaving the ramp free for a quick launch and retrieve . i have seen people completely load or unload their family and gear , clean fish or take off straps right at the waters edge , on a busy day!!!! ive even seen wicked campers set up in the turning bay making a cup of tea. kinda makes the most patient people get frustrated. Good one Matty
i had an idiot winterizing and fogging his party barge on the ramp then his buddy comes up and jumps line and has the nerve to bitch when i told him to screw off. we were loaded and gone and they were still trying to back the trailer. sad thing was the ramp was more than wide enough for two at a time.
Nice tips Stu.I have a Quintrex estuary angler like in the video with side rails and have a short length of rope on the centre port/starboard side for tying off to pontoons/wharf when launching/retrieving.
nice roping skills there stu. when we bought the puddle bucket it had cleats on one side on the gunwales. never made sense. got a couple more for the other side makes life so much easier. like the spring line idea . im still learning
Thanks mate. Having cleats on both sides is pretty essential I think. Too often you don't get a choice about which side you pull up to because of the current or the winds.
Thanks for another awesome video Stu. It was great seeing that beautiful glassy water, all I could think of was getting my Slalom ski and tearing that up.. Here we are freezing our asses off in the Northern Hemisphere, and you're sweating your ass off in the southern. Too bad we can't both find a happy medium.
All great tips Stu. A rope in itself is the simplest thing. Knowing how to tie knots and secure boats and gear takes a bit more skill! Once again you’ve demystified another topic that most weekend boaters (like myself) can always use some help with!
Hey Stu, another very helpful vid. Keep up the good work. I especially liked the RAAF roundel on the outboard cover at 1.33. Let me know when you need a replacement sticker. ; )
Another good rule before driving the boat away from the dock, is to never untie last rope until boat motor is started, and when returning, never turn the motor off till the first tie up is made. If you don't know why, the wind and current will let you know pretty quick why that is a good rule to follow. I made this mistake the first time on a large river. I shut the motor off before tying up and the boat drifted away quickly from my tie up, I tried to restart the motor. Dead. The battery terminals had vibrated loose. Luckily I was not close to any commercial boat traffic or river barges that would have plowed me under. Thanks for sharing Stu.
No sympathy here about the heat from the UK today! 2 degrees and an icy cold strong wind... Great video, always interesting to see how others do it, our boat is around 10 tons and we have a 6 metre tidal range so do things a little differently. Also, it's never calm here! Happy new year, and enjoy the sunshine!
Yesterday I was dreaming of icy winds! A six metre tidal range is huge, it must make tying up a real challenge. 10 tonnes makes a huge difference too. I remember when I was working as a deckhand the bigger boats had plaited ropes that were 65mm in diameter. Makes the Green Machine's lines feel like string!
OMG 45! Here on the east coast of Canada we have been in a bit of a deep freeze for most pf December. It is currently -22 this AM (windchill is -33 right now) with a high of -16! Great video, learned a couple of great tips! Thanks!
VERY HOT! We usually see summer temps around mid 30s, never in the 40s! And mid 30s with high humidity is brutally hot! I can only imagine how hot 45 on the water would be.
Look up Marble Bar - I think their record is something like 100 days of over 45 degree C days in a row.Nice place to visit on a trip in spring- forget it any other time!
Don't complain, here in Holland it's freezing cold. Your flick flac system is usefull, not for impressing girls, I'm 56, but for tying up when having pain in my back :). Good video, some will never lean to tie up their boat properly.
Great vid Stu, Snow and ice here in England so it's nice to see your sweating it . :-) We will be following your advice next time we take out the R.I.B cheers
Great Video mate. Thanks for showing how to tie up at the Dangar public wharf. Gives me a lot more confidence. I’d certainly like a more detailed video on the anchor pulley system. -Jack
Never in my 67 years of life have I seen 45 Deg.! You folks must go through a lot of water.Sunny day in summer here on Canadian westcoast and it is 8 00 P.M. and 14 deg. Out on the ocean one needs a jacket! Wonder how much it cools down to at night.?? Thanks for great boating vids. Cheers!!
Excellent vid mate, and great advice as always...Maybe another vid on Spring Ropes, attachment to anchor chain lengths and so on ..So many different ropes with different stretch capacities now, some can almost double their length . Some just break...oops, and strong winds coming in from opposite quarters etc...
Your videos are great, Stu. If you're ever able to show us the process for changing a timing belt, and what to look for with early signs of timing belt wear, it'd be beaut. I'm a Yamaha F60 owner :)
I usually get a strong ocean breeze sometimes blowing me away from the dock. I throw a little longer bow line on the dock and then that gives me a few extra seconds as I do that loop trick on the stern to impress the girls before the wind blows my bow out of reach.
Stu, do you have a video on how to tie up a boat when bad or severe weather is expected? Are the procedures different then what you did in this video? Thanks keep up the good work enjoying your videos from the USA.
Hey Stu, have been binge watching your vids for the last few days (and nights😁). Was putting a new winch on the tinny trailer (old Belco) yesterday and got to thinking about moving/replacing some rollers and was wondering if you've covered roller/slide placement on trailers or could possibly be a future topic?
Luckily for me I live in an area of Puget Sound that has been in boatbuilding since thew 1600s so everyone boats and knows the value of floating docks that float with the tide! Every dock is like that here so no worries for me! Happy boating!
Interesting. I was in the deck force on an American Navy Cruiser a long time back. We used 2" hausers and cable springers to tie up. I remember using a rat tail stopper to hold the hauser tight while making the rounds on the bits. One day the captain backed up too quickly and ran over the loop on the hauser. Props cut it clean off. Not as bad as seeing an oiler loose control and deep sixed its anchor and chain.
Yes, you can certainly get some amazingly thick hausers. They were lucky they got cut by the prop instead of wrapping around and melting into a thick ball of nylon that would need a team of divers to remove!
Where I boat, a fresh water 25x5 mile man made lake, most people leave their fenders tied to their cleats only at one end hanging down as they drive around and the fenders bounce all over the side of the boat which I find annoying. I tied my fenders in series -------{____}----------{_____}------- like this with each end attached to the bow and stern cleats with spring carabiners (for easy attach and removal) just under the rub rail of the boat. I found that this helps them from bouncing all over under way and with them riding just under the rub rail when i pull up to our pontoons they meet the pontoon edge well and protect the boat from hitting without flipping up.
Hey Seth, that is a good way to go provide that you aren't tying up against another horizontal edge that they can roll off. I know what you mean about seeing fenders flying everywhere once the boat is underway. As well as being a bad look they can make people in the boat very wet!
Hi Stu. I am just going over some old content now that I am actively seeking my own boat - a stuation that your channel is responsible for (in every positive sense). I get the sense the tie ups you show here are for a few hours or overnight. What did you do to tie Renko safely when you left her due to the bad weather, on your way back to the Hawkesbury?
hey Stu, just wondering but with anchor ropes how ofen should it be replaced? mines starting to come undone and im not sure if its really something to worry about?
I wouldn't say there is a set time, but once it starts to feel very UV affected or show signs of fraying badly I would consider swapping it out. Sometimes I can just be a section where it joins the anchor in which can I just cut that section out and re-splice it.
Ah, a very good question. It really depends on hair colour. With blondes and redheads go for the bowline, most brunettes tend to prefer rolling hitches.
What about tying up parallel to a fixed structure where there's tide? Say you arrive at low tide, how do you keep the slack in the lines from getting too big as the tide rises. It's alright when you've only got a metre of tide or so, but what if you're stuck with two or three metres of tide?
AR1G3 - try Broome- we tied up there one Easter and had to have a deck crew available all the time due to the tides. Our gangway went from the main deck down at about 25 degrees to the wharf at high tide, and at low tide it went from 3 deck up about 15 degrees to the wharf before the gangway was closed to access for about 2 hours for safety reasons. If the deck crew was not moving the gangway , they were adjusting the lines (double stern and bow lines, main and mid fore and aft springers, along with fenders) Our usual in harbour deck crew was something like 6 people doing 8 hour watches, Broome was a crew of 12 and 2hr watches. The doubled lines were because of the tide race. That was on 2500 tonne oceanographic survey and science ship.
Large tidal variation can be tricky. As in Ron's situation, having crew permanently on deck makes a huge difference. Lines with weights and pulleys can help if it is a permanent docking place. Another option that I like in the situation where the boat is parallel to a fixed structure is having the deck lines go to the far side of the boat, but once again, this won't help once the variation is too great.
Oh, and should say that another thing I've seen is rings that slide up and down long piles. This way the deck lines to the rings can be quite short regardless of the tidal variation.
I like the thing with the rings, but I don't think they have them in a lot of places. The reason I asked was because of a place I used to go on vacation to in France, called the bay of the Somme. It's a bay that empties completely at low tide, you can litteraly walk across it. The tidal variation there is 10 metres, at low tide the boats are resting on their keels in the sand. Due to it completely emptying at low tide, the tide also comes in really fast. It takes only 15min between no water at all to the point where speedboats start to leave the harbour. Pretty crazy sight, seeing the tidal wave come rolling in. Anyway, there are also fishing boats there, small trawlers with a crew of +/- four. All the speedboats, sailboats, etc tie up to a floating dock so they don't have to worry about the tide, but the fishing boats tie up to the warf so they have to deal with the 10m tidal variation. I've always wondered how they worked around it.
Great how too Video Stu; Has your anchor ever gotten wedged in-between objects down under the water and you struggled to free it?. Looks hot !!! there, Freezing here, ***Burrrr !!!**** . Take it easy my friend. See you on the next one. Angelo.
Thanks Angelo. Yes, I have had anchors stuck before, and you've just reminded me how long I've been meaning to do a "recovering a stuck anchor" video for!
Can you do a video showing various ways to tie up on a beach/ somewhere with out a proper dock (wharf!)? Both "tidal" waters and lakes. Also (if you can) show a good way to anchor a boat to a rocky shoreline (where you wouldn't want the boat hitting rocks while at anchor) I often find myself in these situation while out fishing (alone except for my dog!) and I want to go ashore for a break, let the dog run around, have lunch etc. and I don't want to go back to the launch site.
Hi Mike. This is the video that briefly shows the use of the running line, I'll do a more detailed video on it soon. The same technique can be used at a beach only bow out to the waves th-cam.com/video/tMHGNf20aIw/w-d-xo.html
As a noob (confession time) I used 2 Spring lines to tie off to a WHARF. As a noob (I've already confessed) I used 2 MORE lines to cleats at the SPRING points to tie tight to the WHARF. While sleeping onboard after the TIDE went OUT...I heard a loud BANG...went on deck to find the boat was serious LISTING away from the WHARF...starboard side was about 2-3 LOWER than the WHARF. The forward CLEAT was RIPPED out of the boat and was still secured to the line. (Boat builder only used small washers to secure the cleats...and the resulting HOLES were the diameter of the small washers). Put the CLEAT back into the damaged holes (with Sikkaflex) and secured cleats from below with LARGER washers to cover the holes. All was good. OK...OK...I know YOU wouldn't make this mistake. But...I did...so maybe you REALLY won't make this mistake. Confession over.
Have you tried the beers from the little brewery at Mt Kuringai. Ekim and Happy Goblin. They are a tasty beer and thanks for your videos I have an old Glastron Tri hull bowrider that I am have a list of modifications I need to work on and you have helped a great deal already
Dangar Marine I didn’t realise you were doing a tutorial about tying tho a private wharf. Is there another one about tying off to a public dock? You could do an entire playlist. I genuinely enjoy your clips and find them informative
That's pretty interesting, a lot of stuff that the average newbie wouldn't think much about, until returning to find the boat either sunk, or hanging. My experience with tying up is limited to lake use and pretty much always tying at the same slips every time. When the boat is at "home" on the island, it parks in a spot between the wrap-around dock, nose-in, on a three-point restraint, where the port and starboard stern lines have eyes that slip nicely around cleats, and the bow line is a safety clip that clips to the eye ring right in the nose. When the boat is tied at the "land" dock, it gets tied again at 3 points, nose-in, to a dock. In both cases, it's not safe to point the bow-out to the open water, as the weight of the 70hp Honda on the transom causes the rear to sit low anyways, and nobody would want it to be striking on the rocky bottom near the shore if the boat should get bouncing due to waves or wind. 45Celsius, eh? We've been enjoying lows of -29 with wind chill of -39 around here, but they say it's supposed to warm up and snow some more today. Thanks for sharing a glimpse of summer. Cheers, and two thumbs up (for getting a train heading North over the bridge in the background) ! Hope everyone there is well.
The train is one of our double decked electric (1500v DC, overhead wire system) interurbans - an Oscar- 8 car made up of two 4 car sets. Pretty reliable having a good miles per incident ratio - but being an interurban they do a lot of kilometres between stops/door openings (main fail point is doors) and pretty good comfort wise except for the seats- way too hard for long trips. But made that way to lower vandalism effects. Sydney to Newcastle. And running slowly across that bridge as it is reported to have structural problems.
Hi Ron, I myself have years experience using commuter trains, and ours feature similarly "hard" seats. There is adequate padding, the bottoms are Velcro-held in place, easily removed/replaced for cleaning. For the distance that I would travel on them, 45-50 miles, I had no problem with them unless the train became delayed in an unusually long delay. I would simply get up and walk around a bit. Do a few "loops" in our bi-level cars, down one staircase, along the lower floor, and back up the other end. Ours don't have a name, other than simply calling them GO Transit bi-level cars. They were designed by GO Transit, Hawker Siddeley Canada in the mid 1970's. UDTC built a later generation, and now Bombardier builds them and owns the designs and manufacturing facility. They have consistently improved the interiors over the years. Every single car has a lavatory, 4 doors (2 per side), many used to have AC power available to riders for charging devices. Vandalism is a problem. Unfortunately, GO runs its' trains with only one crewperson inside the train, confined to a certain car. The other two operating crew members (engineman, brakeman) are not available to watch for vandalism. As for bridges, tunnels, overpasses, we have our issues too, but they are pouring money into major upgrades all the time. Our entire fleet is presently diesel-electric, (4000hp MPI MPXpress series), but they are committed to going totally electric. Our cars, unfortunately, use a 575volt HEP system, which differs from the "norm" of a 480v HEP system used by most other forms of pax transportation systems in North America. As for reliability, the trainsets do quite well. One of the things that can, and often does cripple an entire line, is level-crossing incidents, and suicides. The doors on ours are pneumatic, and occasionally become susceptible to snow, ice, salt or other debris to cause the doors to jam in the tracks. Sometimes, riders are the problem, abusing the doors by blocking them with a shoe or other object. This delays the train if the cause cannot be found a remedied quickly.
Velcro cushions- they would be ripped out and thrown out by the lovely idiots we have as passengers. A 1hr trip is just a local for us, some local runs are 70-80 minutes long. Intercity runs by trains such as these are 2- 4 hrs long.The seats are way too hard for those trips. Our sets are crewed by two, driver and guard, no fireman/off sider here. But the guard has cameras- up to 96 per 8 car train and recorders going full time. That hasn't stopped the vandalism, or sex acts, going on at all.
Wow. Sounds like your train agency needs to administer IQ tests at the point of ticket sales. Need to weed those sorts out. Our seat cushions are Velcro-placed so that when the cleaners do their thing, the scraps and crumbs can be vacuumed out. Also if someone pukes or spills something, the entire cushion can be swapped out and sent off to the cleaners. In North America, a train MUST have a brakeman, and that comes into play sometimes when some fool yanks the emergency brake cord because they've missed their stop or whatever. No complex camera systems (as of yet) on GO Trains. I guess our idiots are a bit more refined than yours are, and I'm not bragging about it. We certainly have them here, they're just generally not that destructive.
There is a risk of this, but given this is how everyone ties up here people are aware of it and come in straight between the boats from a safe distance out. New rope that still floats with the main problem. Once it absorbs a bit of water it will sink and it much safer.
The beginning was excellent! But then there was lots of talking and no examples. If you weren't a experience boater, it would be hard to understand what he's talking about.
Hi Richard, I appreciate you being one of the few people that takes the time to say what you think could be improved rather than just silently disliking. One of the hardest things is to remember what it was like to have no experience at all, but that is what you need to do when making videos. In the Beginners guide to driving a boat video people would ask things like "How do I start it?" "How do I change gears?" and I realised that I needed to do an absolute beginners video. It's good to be reminded of that and of the benefit of using as many examples as possible.
Your humour is great Stu, "Just have a look around, cause if there's no girls watching, there's really no point doing it"
Lol the deadpan delivery of that "if there aren't any girls watching" line. Gold. Great vids mate, very helpful for us novice boatie/d.i.y'er.
Thanks mate. Great to hear you've been enjoying. :)
He really knows his way around operating a boat, Well done.
Thanks Jonathan. :)
I've only been boating a lot for the past few years. 14' Jon boat. All of these tips and tricks are great to see - really helpful. Appreciate all the videos - and yes I subscribed right away.
Thanks Richard, glad you've found the videos helpful. :)
Your handrail looks the ideal spot for a short line to quickly tie off onto as you mentioned, I reckon we may see that added by the next video ;) Hope you got in the water today, was a stinker!
Hey Matthew, yeah, I do need to add that line, they are really handy. Yep, managed to get quite a few swims in. Hope you stayed cool too!
THE FLICK THING have a look around if no girls watching no point doing it , Geezs I needed that laugh.
I thought he was going to say something like that too
Everybody needs a good laugh to get through life. :)
Thanks for the chuckle.
Three years late on this vid, a few good tips there Stu. I have always tied up with bow and stern lines loose and used long but taut spring lines cleated a boat length or more forward and aft of the boat as the main controlling lines, especially in areas with a large tidal variation. Always used doubled back spring lines to the boat cleats so all untying is done from the boat, a must for single-handed or short-handed boating.
If you can’t tie knots, tie lots. Thanks Stu!
Hi ya Stu, any chance of a vid on removing frozen bolts with rounded/corroded heads ? Lower unit into power head would be handy. I have tried welding another bolt to frozen bolt, heat, wd40, hammer and chisel, even swearing at it.
Cheers
Gaz
A solid policy!
Yep, have one of those planned soon.
thank you again for the learning. I still have lots to learn but my skills are coming along.
You're welcome mate, glad the vids are helping you. :)
Hi there Stu and the Green Machine.
Knowledge is power, and any information that increases the brains hp is always appreciated.
Now we won't have to replace the Bimini or pay to raise our boats from the bottom, or worse, buy a whole new vessel.
See, there's many was to save coin for the airfare, cause your right about the trim video, it would take awhile just with saving on fuel.
Cheers!
Hey Andrew. I've certainly seen plenty of windscreens smashed by not following the "check the anchor isn't dragging" step!
Your spot on, there are all sorts of methods ppl use and they all reckon theirs is the best
And that yours is useless. ;)
Love the videos . Clearly explaining how to go about things on the water , makes things much easier. Could you do a video about boat ramp launching and Etiquette . We see so many people doing the wrong thing .
Slowing down our local boat ramp and causing frustration for other boaters . Thanks
Matt
This video covers a bit of that, but having a separate video on etiquette, if only just to make it searchable would be good. th-cam.com/video/svFJeG6BqLo/w-d-xo.html
thanks that video link really just about cover it all .
. i like your point about prep the boat away from the boat ramp itself . leaving the ramp free for a quick launch and retrieve . i have seen people completely load or unload their family and gear , clean fish or take off straps right at the waters edge , on a busy day!!!!
ive even seen wicked campers set up in the turning bay making a cup of tea.
kinda makes the most patient people get frustrated.
Good one
Matty
i had an idiot winterizing and fogging his party barge on the ramp then his buddy comes up and jumps line and has the nerve to bitch when i told him to screw off. we were loaded and gone and they were still trying to back the trailer. sad thing was the ramp was more than wide enough for two at a time.
Nice tips Stu.I have a Quintrex estuary angler like in the video with side rails and have a short length of rope on the centre port/starboard side for tying off to pontoons/wharf when launching/retrieving.
Thanks Fabian, yep, that certainly is a very handy line to have. I'm definitely going to get around to adding it very soon.
Very helpful advice. Thanks Stu.
You're welcome George. :)
Very interesting Stu - thanks for posting :)
nice roping skills there stu. when we bought the puddle bucket it had cleats on one side on the gunwales. never made sense. got a couple more for the other side makes life so much easier. like the spring line idea . im still learning
Thanks mate. Having cleats on both sides is pretty essential I think. Too often you don't get a choice about which side you pull up to because of the current or the winds.
Thanks for another awesome video Stu. It was great seeing that beautiful glassy water, all I could think of was getting my Slalom ski and tearing that up.. Here we are freezing our asses off in the Northern Hemisphere, and you're sweating your ass off in the southern. Too bad we can't both find a happy medium.
Thanks mate. A happy medium would be very nice! :)
Take care with that heat. It has made the news here. -3 to -8c here and then there is the wind chill. Cheers.
Fortunately it has cooled off a lot now. The garden it is still looking very burnt though...
All great tips Stu. A rope in itself is the simplest thing. Knowing how to tie knots and secure boats and gear takes a bit more skill! Once again you’ve demystified another topic that most weekend boaters (like myself) can always use some help with!
Thanks Jack. We all have have lots to learn when it comes to boats. I'm not sure you can ever master them!
Hey Stu, another very helpful vid. Keep up the good work. I especially liked the RAAF roundel on the outboard cover at 1.33. Let me know when you need a replacement sticker. ; )
Thanks Paul. I thought the roundel was appropriate for a boat made by DeHavilland. ;0
Another good rule before driving the boat away from the dock, is to never untie last rope until boat motor is started, and when returning, never turn the motor off till the first tie up is made. If you don't know why, the wind and current will let you know pretty quick why that is a good rule to follow. I made this mistake the first time on a large river. I shut the motor off before tying up and the boat drifted away quickly from my tie up, I tried to restart the motor. Dead. The battery terminals had vibrated loose. Luckily I was not close to any commercial boat traffic or river barges that would have plowed me under. Thanks for sharing Stu.
No sympathy here about the heat from the UK today! 2 degrees and an icy cold strong wind... Great video, always interesting to see how others do it, our boat is around 10 tons and we have a 6 metre tidal range so do things a little differently. Also, it's never calm here! Happy new year, and enjoy the sunshine!
Yesterday I was dreaming of icy winds! A six metre tidal range is huge, it must make tying up a real challenge. 10 tonnes makes a huge difference too. I remember when I was working as a deckhand the bigger boats had plaited ropes that were 65mm in diameter. Makes the Green Machine's lines feel like string!
OMG 45! Here on the east coast of Canada we have been in a bit of a deep freeze for most pf December. It is currently -22 this AM (windchill is -33 right now) with a high of -16! Great video, learned a couple of great tips! Thanks!
45 degrees celcious
VERY HOT! We usually see summer temps around mid 30s, never in the 40s! And mid 30s with high humidity is brutally hot! I can only imagine how hot 45 on the water would be.
It turned out to peak at 47.1 C (116.8 F) Ouch!
Ulladulla got to 43 or so ( we are bit south of there) but the humidity at 90% was the killer. Glad I am holidays so were in the water nearly all day.
Look up Marble Bar - I think their record is something like 100 days of over 45 degree C days in a row.Nice place to visit on a trip in spring- forget it any other time!
Don't complain, here in Holland it's freezing cold. Your flick flac system is usefull, not for impressing girls, I'm 56, but for tying up when having pain in my back :). Good video, some will never lean to tie up their boat properly.
Hey Hans, it can definitely save your back, that's for sure.
So thanks...
Beautiful place, sea and day too...
Thanks mate. :)
Great video Stu, was 47.5 at Penrith and 46 on the Central Coast
Thanks Anthony. Hottest day since 1939 I believe.
Wow, I just learned so much! Thanks :)
Good to hear! :)
love your videos keep up the good work ... i have swing mooring in Cornwall out at see uk not that easy on your own..
Thanks Guy. It certainly can be hard to pick up mooring on your own in a larger boat.
The green machine makes me laugh, its like a car mechanic who's car is running rough and looking shoddy. LOL
Great vid Stu, Snow and ice here in England so it's nice to see your sweating it . :-)
We will be following your advice next time we take out the R.I.B cheers
Thanks mate. Going to be getting my first diving video up in a few weeks. :)
Excellent I will be looking forward to that. Cheers
I love muf* diving videos
Great Video mate.
Thanks for showing how to tie up at the Dangar public wharf. Gives me a lot more confidence.
I’d certainly like a more detailed video on the anchor pulley system.
-Jack
Thanks Jack, will definitely do a vid on the pulley system soon. :)
Good instructional video Stu
Thanks mate.
Never in my 67 years of life have I seen 45 Deg.! You folks must go through a lot of water.Sunny day in summer here on Canadian westcoast and it is 8 00 P.M. and 14 deg. Out on the ocean one needs a jacket! Wonder how much it cools down to at night.?? Thanks for great boating vids. Cheers!!
Yes, it was a very hot period. Fortunately it isn't that hot most of the time. Summers are generally in the 30s
Excellent vid mate, and great advice as always...Maybe another vid on Spring Ropes, attachment to anchor chain lengths and so on ..So many different ropes with different stretch capacities now, some can almost double their length . Some just break...oops, and strong winds coming in from opposite quarters etc...
Thanks mate. Yes, there is a lot more to show, that's for sure. Hoping to do more on-water videos before the summer is over.
Your videos are great, Stu. If you're ever able to show us the process for changing a timing belt, and what to look for with early signs of timing belt wear, it'd be beaut. I'm a Yamaha F60 owner :)
Hi Kun, I'm planning to do that job on The Green Machine soon so I'll be sure to film it.
I usually get a strong ocean breeze sometimes blowing me away from the dock. I throw a little longer bow line on the dock and then that gives me a few extra seconds as I do that loop trick on the stern to impress the girls before the wind blows my bow out of reach.
It's good to have a few extra seconds to do the rope trick as it lets you do it slowly while looking wistfully towards the horizon.
Stu, do you have a video on how to tie up a boat when bad or severe weather is expected? Are the procedures different then what you did in this video? Thanks keep up the good work enjoying your videos from the USA.
Mostly it is about having extra springers etc and lots of fenders. Ideally you also have a anchor and a line holding it away from the wharf.
Hey Stu, have been binge watching your vids for the last few days (and nights😁). Was putting a new winch on the tinny trailer (old Belco) yesterday and got to thinking about moving/replacing some rollers and was wondering if you've covered roller/slide placement on trailers or could possibly be a future topic?
Hey Liam. Yes, definitely have a video on setting up a trailer planned. Won't be long!
Sweet. Have a Bluefin 4.3 Mangrove jack and have been trying to work out if there's any difference between wobbly rollers etc. Cant wait👍
Luckily for me I live in an area of Puget Sound that has been in boatbuilding since thew 1600s so everyone boats and knows the value of floating docks that float with the tide! Every dock is like that here so no worries for me! Happy boating!
Interesting. I was in the deck force on an American Navy Cruiser a long time back. We used 2" hausers and cable springers to tie up. I remember using a rat tail stopper to hold the hauser tight while making the rounds on the bits. One day the captain backed up too quickly and ran over the loop on the hauser. Props cut it clean off. Not as bad as seeing an oiler loose control and deep sixed its anchor and chain.
Yes, you can certainly get some amazingly thick hausers. They were lucky they got cut by the prop instead of wrapping around and melting into a thick ball of nylon that would need a team of divers to remove!
Great video
Thanks mate.
Where I boat, a fresh water 25x5 mile man made lake, most people leave their fenders tied to their cleats only at one end hanging down as they drive around and the fenders bounce all over the side of the boat which I find annoying. I tied my fenders in series -------{____}----------{_____}------- like this with each end attached to the bow and stern cleats with spring carabiners (for easy attach and removal) just under the rub rail of the boat. I found that this helps them from bouncing all over under way and with them riding just under the rub rail when i pull up to our pontoons they meet the pontoon edge well and protect the boat from hitting without flipping up.
Hey Seth, that is a good way to go provide that you aren't tying up against another horizontal edge that they can roll off. I know what you mean about seeing fenders flying everywhere once the boat is underway. As well as being a bad look they can make people in the boat very wet!
Hi Stu. I am just going over some old content now that I am actively seeking my own boat - a stuation that your channel is responsible for (in every positive sense). I get the sense the tie ups you show here are for a few hours or overnight. What did you do to tie Renko safely when you left her due to the bad weather, on your way back to the Hawkesbury?
hey Stu, just wondering but with anchor ropes how ofen should it be replaced? mines starting to come undone and im not sure if its really something to worry about?
I wouldn't say there is a set time, but once it starts to feel very UV affected or show signs of fraying badly I would consider swapping it out. Sometimes I can just be a section where it joins the anchor in which can I just cut that section out and re-splice it.
If girls are watching, which is usually best, a bowline or a rolling hitch?
Ah, a very good question. It really depends on hair colour. With blondes and redheads go for the bowline, most brunettes tend to prefer rolling hitches.
And if they are married use a slip knot in case the husband comes in earlier than planned.
OMG this is too funny!
What about tying up parallel to a fixed structure where there's tide? Say you arrive at low tide, how do you keep the slack in the lines from getting too big as the tide rises. It's alright when you've only got a metre of tide or so, but what if you're stuck with two or three metres of tide?
AR1G3 - try Broome- we tied up there one Easter and had to have a deck crew available all the time due to the tides. Our gangway went from the main deck down at about 25 degrees to the wharf at high tide, and at low tide it went from 3 deck up about 15 degrees to the wharf before the gangway was closed to access for about 2 hours for safety reasons. If the deck crew was not moving the gangway , they were adjusting the lines (double stern and bow lines, main and mid fore and aft springers, along with fenders) Our usual in harbour deck crew was something like 6 people doing 8 hour watches, Broome was a crew of 12 and 2hr watches. The doubled lines were because of the tide race. That was on 2500 tonne oceanographic survey and science ship.
Large tidal variation can be tricky. As in Ron's situation, having crew permanently on deck makes a huge difference. Lines with weights and pulleys can help if it is a permanent docking place. Another option that I like in the situation where the boat is parallel to a fixed structure is having the deck lines go to the far side of the boat, but once again, this won't help once the variation is too great.
Oh, and should say that another thing I've seen is rings that slide up and down long piles. This way the deck lines to the rings can be quite short regardless of the tidal variation.
I like the thing with the rings, but I don't think they have them in a lot of places. The reason I asked was because of a place I used to go on vacation to in France, called the bay of the Somme. It's a bay that empties completely at low tide, you can litteraly walk across it. The tidal variation there is 10 metres, at low tide the boats are resting on their keels in the sand. Due to it completely emptying at low tide, the tide also comes in really fast. It takes only 15min between no water at all to the point where speedboats start to leave the harbour. Pretty crazy sight, seeing the tidal wave come rolling in.
Anyway, there are also fishing boats there, small trawlers with a crew of +/- four. All the speedboats, sailboats, etc tie up to a floating dock so they don't have to worry about the tide, but the fishing boats tie up to the warf so they have to deal with the 10m tidal variation. I've always wondered how they worked around it.
Great how too Video Stu; Has your anchor ever gotten wedged in-between objects down under the water and you struggled to free it?. Looks hot !!! there, Freezing here, ***Burrrr !!!**** . Take it easy my friend. See you on the next one. Angelo.
Thanks Angelo. Yes, I have had anchors stuck before, and you've just reminded me how long I've been meaning to do a "recovering a stuck anchor" video for!
Can you do a video showing various ways to tie up on a beach/ somewhere with out a proper dock (wharf!)? Both "tidal" waters and lakes. Also (if you can) show a good way to anchor a boat to a rocky shoreline (where you wouldn't want the boat hitting rocks while at anchor) I often find myself in these situation while out fishing (alone except for my dog!) and I want to go ashore for a break, let the dog run around, have lunch etc. and I don't want to go back to the launch site.
Hi Mike. This is the video that briefly shows the use of the running line, I'll do a more detailed video on it soon. The same technique can be used at a beach only bow out to the waves th-cam.com/video/tMHGNf20aIw/w-d-xo.html
As a noob (confession time) I used 2 Spring lines to tie off to a WHARF.
As a noob (I've already confessed) I used 2 MORE lines to cleats at the SPRING points to tie tight to the WHARF.
While sleeping onboard after the TIDE went OUT...I heard a loud BANG...went on deck to find the boat was serious LISTING away from the WHARF...starboard side was about 2-3 LOWER than the WHARF.
The forward CLEAT was RIPPED out of the boat and was still secured to the line.
(Boat builder only used small washers to secure the cleats...and the resulting HOLES were the diameter of the small washers).
Put the CLEAT back into the damaged holes (with Sikkaflex) and secured cleats from below with LARGER washers to cover the holes. All was good.
OK...OK...I know YOU wouldn't make this mistake.
But...I did...so maybe you REALLY won't make this mistake.
Confession over.
Don't worry mate, you aren't the only one that's been stuck by a shifting tide when tying up. Seen it happen many times!
I did it all wrong! And yes girls were watching. lol
It only goes wrong when people are watching. ;)
"If there aren't any girls watching" lol.
Reminded me of this clip
th-cam.com/video/2V-RKHtBIFg/w-d-xo.html
Was a warm one that's for sure!
Her shorts are better. ;) It was too hot, that's for sure...
Hahah the straight faced timing of that line. Brilliant. Now back to the video...
Thanks
Welcome. :)
Have you tried the beers from the little brewery at Mt Kuringai. Ekim and Happy Goblin. They are a tasty beer and thanks for your videos I have an old Glastron Tri hull bowrider that I am have a list of modifications I need to work on and you have helped a great deal already
Little skeptical of this channel till the ol boy tied his boat without bending down
LOL
I'll use this method when the girls are around. Rock star!
Thank you for the video, "It's hot today". Ehhh No, 8 below zero here.😉
That certainly doesn't qualify as hot!
What time of year did you do this video?
It was filmed the day it was uploaded.
Dangar Marine nice weather
slick film/edit/post times - quite awe inspiring!
What the **** is that strange boat/barge thing going past in the background around 12.40?
It's a house boat.
Why no bumpers on side next to boat on the right?
The pontoon has a rubber strip around it. That is enough most of the time.
Looks nice down there, it's 9* F here in Ohio now 😟
Quite a difference!
How do others use the cleat with that much macrame on it? A simple OXO is sufficient.
Better yet, use a bowline
It’s a private wharf.
Dangar Marine I didn’t realise you were doing a tutorial about tying tho a private wharf. Is there another one about tying off to a public dock? You could do an entire playlist. I genuinely enjoy your clips and find them informative
That's pretty interesting, a lot of stuff that the average newbie wouldn't think much about, until returning to find the boat either sunk, or hanging. My experience with tying up is limited to lake use and pretty much always tying at the same slips every time. When the boat is at "home" on the island, it parks in a spot between the wrap-around dock, nose-in, on a three-point restraint, where the port and starboard stern lines have eyes that slip nicely around cleats, and the bow line is a safety clip that clips to the eye ring right in the nose. When the boat is tied at the "land" dock, it gets tied again at 3 points, nose-in, to a dock. In both cases, it's not safe to point the bow-out to the open water, as the weight of the 70hp Honda on the transom causes the rear to sit low anyways, and nobody would want it to be striking on the rocky bottom near the shore if the boat should get bouncing due to waves or wind. 45Celsius, eh? We've been enjoying lows of -29 with wind chill of -39 around here, but they say it's supposed to warm up and snow some more today. Thanks for sharing a glimpse of summer. Cheers, and two thumbs up (for getting a train heading North over the bridge in the background) ! Hope everyone there is well.
Hey Stan, good point about the depth of water coming into the bow out / bow in equation. Keeping your motor in deep water is sometimes the priority.
The train is one of our double decked electric (1500v DC, overhead wire system) interurbans - an Oscar- 8 car made up of two 4 car sets. Pretty reliable having a good miles per incident ratio - but being an interurban they do a lot of kilometres between stops/door openings (main fail point is doors) and pretty good comfort wise except for the seats- way too hard for long trips. But made that way to lower vandalism effects. Sydney to Newcastle. And running slowly across that bridge as it is reported to have structural problems.
Hi Ron, I myself have years experience using commuter trains, and ours feature similarly "hard" seats. There is adequate padding, the bottoms are Velcro-held in place, easily removed/replaced for cleaning. For the distance that I would travel on them, 45-50 miles, I had no problem with them unless the train became delayed in an unusually long delay. I would simply get up and walk around a bit. Do a few "loops" in our bi-level cars, down one staircase, along the lower floor, and back up the other end. Ours don't have a name, other than simply calling them GO Transit bi-level cars. They were designed by GO Transit, Hawker Siddeley Canada in the mid 1970's. UDTC built a later generation, and now Bombardier builds them and owns the designs and manufacturing facility. They have consistently improved the interiors over the years. Every single car has a lavatory, 4 doors (2 per side), many used to have AC power available to riders for charging devices. Vandalism is a problem. Unfortunately, GO runs its' trains with only one crewperson inside the train, confined to a certain car. The other two operating crew members (engineman, brakeman) are not available to watch for vandalism. As for bridges, tunnels, overpasses, we have our issues too, but they are pouring money into major upgrades all the time. Our entire fleet is presently diesel-electric, (4000hp MPI MPXpress series), but they are committed to going totally electric. Our cars, unfortunately, use a 575volt HEP system, which differs from the "norm" of a 480v HEP system used by most other forms of pax transportation systems in North America. As for reliability, the trainsets do quite well. One of the things that can, and often does cripple an entire line, is level-crossing incidents, and suicides. The doors on ours are pneumatic, and occasionally become susceptible to snow, ice, salt or other debris to cause the doors to jam in the tracks. Sometimes, riders are the problem, abusing the doors by blocking them with a shoe or other object. This delays the train if the cause cannot be found a remedied quickly.
Velcro cushions- they would be ripped out and thrown out by the lovely idiots we have as passengers. A 1hr trip is just a local for us, some local runs are 70-80 minutes long. Intercity runs by trains such as these are 2- 4 hrs long.The seats are way too hard for those trips. Our sets are crewed by two, driver and guard, no fireman/off sider here. But the guard has cameras- up to 96 per 8 car train and recorders going full time. That hasn't stopped the vandalism, or sex acts, going on at all.
Wow. Sounds like your train agency needs to administer IQ tests at the point of ticket sales. Need to weed those sorts out. Our seat cushions are Velcro-placed so that when the cleaners do their thing, the scraps and crumbs can be vacuumed out. Also if someone pukes or spills something, the entire cushion can be swapped out and sent off to the cleaners. In North America, a train MUST have a brakeman, and that comes into play sometimes when some fool yanks the emergency brake cord because they've missed their stop or whatever. No complex camera systems (as of yet) on GO Trains. I guess our idiots are a bit more refined than yours are, and I'm not bragging about it. We certainly have them here, they're just generally not that destructive.
"IF THERE'S NO GIRLS WATCHING" good advice .
;)
Stu: when you tied up to the wharf, isn't you anchor line a hazard for the boats near you re getting wrapped up in their props?
There is a risk of this, but given this is how everyone ties up here people are aware of it and come in straight between the boats from a safe distance out. New rope that still floats with the main problem. Once it absorbs a bit of water it will sink and it much safer.
do you miss the green machine? I feel like your new tender has less personality but maybe its function outweighs that.
Yeah, it's certainly no Green Machine but it is more suitable as a tender for Renko. Will get another bigger runabout one day though.
@@DangarMarine I felt kinda sad when the supports started to break. so much character.
Rub it in stew it’s 6 degrees here and I won’t be out in the boat for another few months ... but great video
I gotta say, I would have killed for a stint in 6 degrees yesterday. Sure, only a five minute stint, but it would have been nice. :)
Just to let you know that I'm very jealous, temperature here today is minus 18 degrees C :(
Ouch, that's cold!
3:02 Before you do that have a look around. If there's no girls near there's really no point doing it. Ahahaha :D
I think I can speak for just about everybody here in the U.S. when I say we’re jealous.
Fear not, your summer will be here soon enough!
Why do a video today? In Sydney it was 42 degrees!!! Anyways great video though.
Contractual obligations. Life's hell! ;)
Only issue if girls are watching im bound to stuff up with the loop throw.
It's one of the immutable laws of the universe unfortunately.
2:05 I like you a lot but this is a bad example of a cleat hitch. 3:02 lol 😆
Just remember all the advertiser's are supporting censorship
The beginning was excellent! But then there was lots of talking and no examples. If you weren't a experience boater, it would be hard to understand what he's talking about.
Hi Richard, I appreciate you being one of the few people that takes the time to say what you think could be improved rather than just silently disliking. One of the hardest things is to remember what it was like to have no experience at all, but that is what you need to do when making videos. In the Beginners guide to driving a boat video people would ask things like "How do I start it?" "How do I change gears?" and I realised that I needed to do an absolute beginners video. It's good to be reminded of that and of the benefit of using as many examples as possible.
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Ah, I saw that. Some nice old brass kit you have there. We'll worth putting on eBay or something.
what about the book you like it?
No girls huh