Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Buoy overboard

New maneuver today. Buoy overboard, which is to symbolize man overboard. Man overboard can only be used for emergency. It's not so easy to just drive up to the buoy. This is how it's done (and in case I get something wrong, I'm sure I will be corrected, right boat teacher?). As soon as you hear buoy overboard, go into neutral, turn around to check where the buoy is. Make a loop so that you approach (speed max 3 on the screen, whatever it is that it is showing) from a 45° angle from the wind. Slow down speed and turn the wheel to the left (while a couple of boat lengths from the target), go into neutral and glide into parallell position and stop by making a reverse. Switch off engine, and pick up the buoy on the starboard side. Sounds easy? Well, it's not :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey A!
Pretty much how it should be done! Next time I'll test you:-)

Witchbitch said...

Ah thanks. Yes, see you next Wednesday...(jeez, I cannot believe I booked early in the morning!).