Docking in High Winds with Gusts

pretty windy day down here old port code North Palm Beach Florida northern dyes it is March we're looking at this Sun Deck motive got come in you can see he's sliding a little bit to my left because of the wind will be coming in docking to the left or to the port side of the boat that I'm standing on and he's got his fenders deployed both port and the starboard side can see he's talking to the radio to the dock hands on the dock here we get to watch this and see how the wind will affect him now the boats sliding to my right because of the wind and he's uses twin engines to straighten it up this Attali craft sees burgee on the bow of the boat thali craft Stig he's got a North Carolina registration it's got a golden doodle or Labradoodle on the back deck and they pushed against it to use it as a spring bouncing back out a little bit wind seems to be giving the minimum fit see that wind doesn't feel strong to look what it's doing to his boat and he's got two inches that he's calm his fingers on the starboard side looked to be a little bit too high gets a stern inside that piling you can bounce off that piling on our right-hand side good job for Jack great welcome Florida March

Channel: Ask Captain Chris

Views: 1,234,882

Keywords: Docking, Boating, Ask Captain Chris, Docking in the wind, Trawler Training, Trawlers

Id: KnTVlozM01E

Length: 6min 45sec (405 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 01 2016