![]() For boats with shape like Morgan’s Cloud, you get a decent angle with a short spring that leads to a cleat right there on the edge of the dock. Too steep an angle and the stern will end up too far in, too shallow an angle and it will end up too far out (where the line is fore and aft also has a similar effect). Lines can only react tensile forces in line with them so the line needs to have an angle to the dock so that it can react your engine thrust and also pull the boat towards the dock. Getting the direction of the load correct is dependent on where each end of the line is attached to. To get a load on it, you simply need to power against it, the more throttle you give it, the higher the load will be. The thing that pulls the boat against the dock is the spring line itself (with a single rudder you can cheat and use prop thrust instead if the spring line has no angle to it) so the keys are getting an appropriate load on the line and having it pull in the correct direction. I think that the magic spring line will still work well even without the help of prop wash. I then realized that the current on the outside of the turn was going faster so I switched to a port turn and the boat went around really easy despite being against the prop walk. I started my usual back and fill turn to starboard for our prop walk and the boat didn’t seem to want to turn. I was trying to turn around our 36′ boat in an ~50′ wide creek that was turning hard to the left with the current behind us. I learned something new in our single screw single rudder boat that should have been obvious a few weeks ago. It is crucial that you steer for the direction of water flow across the rudder and not whatever the engine is doing (this seems to be an issue for a lot of people based on my informal observation). ![]() Twin rudders is really unforgiving for people who drive as if they are using an outboard. By getting steerage up in reverse out in the open, you deal with the harder to control direction change (assuming it is not a tailwind) out there. I use this trick a lot on full keel boats and it works reasonably well here as well.īacking down fairways can be a better bet as it makes changing direction easier and these boats usually back just fine. Once you are in this orientation, it is relatively stable even without prop walk to help. Like most boats, you can usually get the stern into the wind even if it is against the direction of prop walk. My limited experience with twin rudder boats has highlighted a few things for me. Going Alongside (Docking)-12 More Tips and Tricks Going Alongside (Docking) in Current-Backing In Going Alongside (Docking) in Current-Turning in Confined Spaces Going Alongside (Docking) in Current-Fundamentals Leaving a Dock Against an Onshore Wind-Part 2 Leaving a Dock Against an Onshore Wind-Part 1
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