Thanks so much for making this Nick. Feeling much more confident after watching this for docking our Sunsail 454 in Croatia later this year. 👌

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Excellent Andrew! Stoked it was helpful. Hope to see you on the water later in the season. Make sure to come say hi if you see us around 🙃

Great demonstration. I’m always worried to touch anything (foreign objects). I have to remember that well placed fenders do work at slow enough speeds, ha! Great job!!

@45DegreesSailing

9 ай бұрын

Being worried about making contact with foreign objects is smart! This worry is what makes us slow down and use our fenders wisely. Here in Croatia, docking stern-to means you cannot avoid making contact with the boats either side of you. And so it pays to know how to do it without inflicting damage!

"I don't advise on doing what I'm doing ... hold my beer ... !" Nice and clean maneuver! I only spent 3 days training on a cat and am a n00b in general, but the rear visibility on these massive modern cats was always a mystery to me.

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Haha. Hold my beer indeed 🫠 Yeh the visibility is such a crazy issue.

I must say as a Leopard owner they are excellent to drive around in tight spaces and dock. I learned to dock pretty well in a day.

@nooneanybodyknows7912

7 ай бұрын

For some Leopard owners, their boat sits on the hard waiting for serious warranty work in multiple marina in multiple countries. Buyer beware! Watch Travel Sketch's KZread channel to learn firsthand what it's like to own a Leopard. 😱

Awesome thanks Nick - this is super helpful. And the itinerary planning you and the crew @45Degrees did for us is awesome 👍👍👍⛵️🤞⚓️

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear!

Nice one Nick, great filming as always.

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy. Appreciate the comment

Great video, this kind of content we need. Docking video where you can see how to use steering and throttles. And drone view.

@45DegreesSailing

8 ай бұрын

Good to hear. Glad it was helpful

That was really impressive!!

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It is certainly a challenge!

Thanks for outstanding videos and choosen way of living, which makes me always jealous :-)

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

45ft boat, 2ft boat hook lol. Well done! Takes a lot of situational awareness to effectively operate single handed in such tight quarters

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Graham. Yes understanding the space around you is so important. Trusting the turn.

Boatic marina is super nice. Was just there last week. They have a serious operation there. Helpful staff

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Yes it is well set up. I am disappointed that they reneged on their stance to not have big messy flotillas sailing from there, now it is effectively a zoo like Kaštela and others that have sail week, yacht week etc. I look forward to them finishing the outer break wall extension.

nice video, thanks for sharing

@45DegreesSailing

11 ай бұрын

np. Thanks for watching 🙂

F..k I love watching your videos! You make it look so easy! Great stuff!

@45DegreesSailing

11 ай бұрын

Lol. Most welcome! Cheers!

Well bloody done! This shows it's possible - but will age you by ten years in stress haha

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha yeah its not for the faint of heart, that's for sure!

great job !

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks!

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Denis!

Thanks for a great video. Incredible how you do it with all the cameras. The different angles help so much to understand what's going on. I will go to Croatia end of September for the first time. We will also use a cat.

@45DegreesSailing

11 ай бұрын

Hahaha yep it is a juggling act, that's for sure! Where will you be chartering out of?

@silkekumar2282

11 ай бұрын

@@45DegreesSailing Pomer - we‘ll sail in the North

Great work and always good to practice on your own so you are ready for anything. I had a situation once where the second captain on my boat turned the wheel hard port without me knowing - wife was screaming as we kept going towards another boat - my famous response was "dont worry! we are out of control!" i just needed a second to go through everything to figure out why the boat was handling strange :)

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣 oh dear!

@philburtscher4375

Жыл бұрын

@@45DegreesSailing one thing ive learned and always scanning is the autopilot rudder angle - especially on a cat when it should be locked in the middle - good to practice so you can scan quickly. Cats are also soooo much easier to maneuver! Stern into the wind is my trick whenever its windy for all types of boats - much more control.

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

@@philburtscher4375 yes for sure. Stern to the wind is the best point. If only all of our berths were facing such a direction!

Perfectly done, as always... But what I appreciate most, is a lot of camera positions (incl. drone). You truly deserves THANKS... However, can I ask you about the crossing spring lines at the very end of the video? Was it done due to expectations of wind through the night? Or is it common way how to tie cat?

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏🏼 glad the camera angles are appreciated! The crossing is common for cats. Especially larger ones. Means less sway and less pushing on the neighbouring yachts when the gusts come. For me this is normal practice at a stern to dock on a cat.

Thanks for this, Nick. Would it have been an option to stop the boat with the Centre/Point of rotation in line with the middle of your parking spot and then rotate then reverse straight in? Or is it better to reverse in as you did? Thanks.

❤

Great job! And thanks for your videos, massively helpful. One noob question: any reason why you started your docking with your starboard line which was downwind? My instructor told me to go for the upwind line first. Have I missed something?

@45DegreesSailing

6 ай бұрын

Thanks Lucas. Sorry for the slow reply! Yes the main reason here is the proximity of that line to the helm and the ability to get in control (on your control line) faster and more efficiently. The time to get from starboard at the helm, to port stern to secure then back to the control to adjust is a lot on this cat. So either way is not wrong/right. I would consider everything to be situational.

@lucaserpietri1521

6 ай бұрын

@@45DegreesSailing Thank you!

@45DegreesSailing

6 ай бұрын

@@lucaserpietri1521 most welcome!

Hello Great Captain! I'm Tommaso from Milan Italy, congratulations indeed! And then I need your help! How does idea work? So I moored astern of Catamaran so I'm all alone as skipper in front of there is a pontoon without bollard!! can't leave a top! it's a mess by myself that my family are not experts. Then my family helped his hands to take the stanchion to another boat to stop and I jumped onto the pontoon and put a ring with the nautical rope up on the stern of the catamaran. What do we do without a cleat?! your idea how does it work? Unfortunately it depends without cleat or there is cleat. Thanks for your help! Tommy and good wind!

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

When you have the ring there are two options, even with inexperienced crew you can train them for this one job to step off and thread the line, pass it back. If I am on my own in this case I do one of the following: If I have a vessel to lay against on the leeward side I can manoeuvre close to her and fenders in place to protect as I fall against the vessel to stall, step off with the leeward line, (neutral engines of course) and thread it and return it to the cleat. If not vessel or not suitable to do this. Put large fenders well positioned on the stern of each hull. Very carefully manoeuvre your sterns very close to pier, slowly press your stern fenders against the dock/pier and hold postion with astern power against the dock. Then step off, thread, return. THIS IS RISKY of course, only certain situations allow for this and it needs to practiced and controlled very well. I hope this helps!

@tommasocavenaghi1655

Жыл бұрын

@@45DegreesSailing OK all clear! Thanks, it's very kind of you!! And I try! Good wind!👏👏👏👏👏

Before docking single-handed, have your doctor check your physical fitness. LOL

@45DegreesSailing

10 ай бұрын

Yup, it can certainly be hot work in that heat!

@ycplum7062

10 ай бұрын

@@45DegreesSailing You moved pretty quick. I hate to imagine if the boat had a forward helm or a flybridge. LOL

HOLD MY BEER 🙂

@45DegreesSailing

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

Where the heck do you get such ridiculously benign docking conditions? No wind, no current? Boring!

@45DegreesSailing

2 ай бұрын

This in Marina Baotić, near Trogir Croatia. Wind was 10 knots ish. Lovely day. I do not get to pick the conditions unfortunately! No current in Croatia almost anywhere, tide is negligible. Want some wind.. try this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c22H3Np_nqvVmbA.html