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Watch the entire MBY How To series at. The boat will move sideways and you can adjust the forward motion and angle of the motion by adjusting thrust on the engines and the rudder angles.
Once its parallel to the pier turn your wheel hard away from the pier once more.
How to drive a twin engine boat. Here is a quick Simple thumb rule on how to drive a twin engine boat and back up a trailer like a pro. Thank you for watching. How to Dock a Twin Engine Boat in a REALLY Tight Slip BoatUS - YouTube.
Put your starboard engine in reverse and your port engine in forward. Give both enough power to get things moving. The stern will probably lead the rest of the boat toward the pier.
Ease your wheel slightly until the boat begins to straighten out. Once its parallel to the pier turn your wheel hard away from the pier once more. HOW TO DRIVE A BOAT SIDEWAYS WITH TWIN ENGINE BOAT AND NO BOW THRUSTER - YouTube.
In this video I go out for a short but intense drive with my boatFeaturing DJI Mavic Mini shotsBacking into a slipDriving a twin engine boatDocking with thro. A twin engined boat is designed to perform with two engines and will be difficult to manouvre with one engine. Apart from that it is bad for the engine gearbox of the engine not being used to be dragged along which is why our sailing chums have a feathering prop or a means to stop the shaft rotating whilst under sail.
What I want you to do is to move the boat forward and stop move the boat forward and stop each time holding the boat steady for a minute or two in that stopped position. 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3. With a bit of rythem.
With the boat stopped pick. You can make the cat crab sideways with the engines and rudders. Put the outside engine in slow forward and the inside engine in slow reverse and turn the rudders slightly away from the dock.
The boat will move sideways and you can adjust the forward motion and angle of the motion by adjusting thrust on the engines and the rudder angles. A twin-engine boat has the upper hand when maneuvering in tight marinas. The skipper can use differential thrust to turn the boat tightly usually within its length.
The newest fly-by-wire motors and steering systems are computerized allowing for amazingly easy docking with simple joystick control. A twin engine boat is designed to run with both engines so running a single propeller in a boat designed for two may also mean the single propeller will not be as effective as the seas build. As waves increase in size so does the wetted surface of the boat- requiring more horsepower to keep a given speed which burns more fuel with the.
In our latest How To video we show you how to move your boat sideways. Watch the entire MBY How To series at. Lets review the process on how to dock a twin engine powerboat.
Look for a flag or a similar indication of wind direction andor of the current if youre in a high-current area. Center the engines drives or rudders and take your hands off the wheel. Do this until you find the right set of twins for getting home on one engine.
If youre repowering an existing boat consider this an opportunity to boost the horsepower to make sure you can plane on one outboard. When running on just one of two outboards tilt up the non-operable motor. This gets the lower unit out of the.
Drive up close to your slip or berth. Maneuver your boat so its positioned to enter the berth or slip. Slow or stop forward momentum so you dont approach too fast.
Using small applications of intermittent power maneuver into the berth or slip. Use a small application of power to stop all motion. As a First time twin engine owner this past AugustI hired instructor Captain Rick who works out of Queens NY to come with me to bring my boat from broker to my marina 4 hr ride.
A week later he gave myself and my 2 sons a 3 hour lesson on close quarter handling with each of us taking turns performing each maneuver. You can steer a twin screw boat going ahead on one engine alone if you want to go to Port engage only the Starboard prop and turn the helm to Port and the stern moves to Starboard relatively quickly. To turn to Starboard turn the helm to Starboard the rudder actually turns to Port engage the Port prop and the stern moves to Port.
The twin inboard method will work great as the wind blows the bow down wind but youll find that it will never swing the bow back upwind against the windbut the arc method will every time. Many boaters assume that twin sterndrives handle the same as twin inboards. They have never tried my ARC method.
As you move parallel to the slip enter with both engines in reverse adjusting position by countering thrust and bumping the engines in and out of gear when needed. When ready to tie up put both engines in forward to arrest the movement and bring the boat to dock. Without Instructions for Your Specific Boat Drive Youre Doomed to Frustration Each Drive System Has its Own Set of Tricks and its Own Set of Docking Instructions.
Lessons are available for Power and Sailboats with single or twin engines. Depending on your boat type youll need the right lesson for outboard sterndrive or inboard. From here on out its easiest to turn the boat by opposing the engines shifting one into forward and the other into reverse and although tempting its best not to touch the steering wheel using only the engines for maneuvering.
Now oppose the engines to get the boat spinning.