BLUEMOMENT

In my other post I mention that the wind was blowing the wrong way today - blowing me into my berth and off the pontoon.
So I started the engine, then undid all the lines ready to leave. Stepped back aboard and pushed the gear lever back and gave it a few revs - once she is moving I knew she would go straight. Lots of revs, not much motion, and what there was was in the wrong direction - I then realised that I'd forgotten to push the wee thing in the middle of the gear lever back in, so swiftly put the lever back to vertical, pressed in the pin and off we go.
Now to get out of my berth I go backwards about 2 boat lengths, then tiller hard to starboard and lots of revs forward and the propwash spins me to face along the trot towards the main marina channel. Only this time I'd put my autopilot in place ready and it prevented me engaging full helm so I had to do a sort of 2 point turn.
After a start like that was it any surprise that my berthing on return went so badly?

Pete Cooper wrote:In my other post I mention that the wind was blowing the wrong way today - blowing me into my berth and off the pontoon.
So I started the engine, then undid all the lines ready to leave. Stepped back aboard and pushed the gear lever back and gave it a few revs - once she is moving I knew she would go straight. Lots of revs, not much motion, and what there was was in the wrong direction - I then realised that I'd forgotten to push the wee thing in the middle of the gear lever back in, so swiftly put the lever back to vertical, pressed in the pin and off we go.
Now to get out of my berth I go backwards about 2 boat lengths, then tiller hard to starboard and lots of revs forward and the propwash spins me to face along the trot towards the main marina channel. Only this time I'd put my autopilot in place ready and it prevented me engaging full helm so I had to do a sort of 2 point turn.
After a start like that was it any surprise that my berthing on return went so badly?

Pete, is it not the case that the red neutral button (press in for neutral/fast idle) should pop back out once the lever is brought back to the central/neutral position?
That's the way it is on mine and most others which I know off.
Anyway the main thing is you got out and it looked from where I was, as if there was a good sailing wind.
Glad to see you are getting out.
Sadly HB and Besula are retiring up river for winter this wk end, with our usual stopover on sat night at Holyloch with a pub crawl in Dunoon included.
C_W

Pete Cooper wrote:After a start like that was it any surprise that my berthing on return went so badly?

jings stop complaining! On the 14th and blowing hard and being blown off the pontoon, we took 11 goes to get the boat in a space approximately 6 ft longer than she is. It cost £58. We missed it by about an inch, that's all, and lost the front nav light on the bloke ahead's furling drum.

The 14th wus a record day fer wind power, eh? Grand. Shame it wus also a Scottish record day for constrained power

Wiz that ra day ye honded oot a bollikin tae ra fair an lovely Mrs P, ye scurrilous auld git?

claymore wrote:Wiz that ra day ye honded oot a bollikin tae ra fair an lovely Mrs P, ye scurrilous auld git?

The wee jezzabell's telling porkies agin ...