"Scout" wrote in message
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Frank,
don't know if you jinxed me or not, but I had a devil of a
time backing into
the slip last night. While backing, the prop kept pulling
the boat hard to
the port side and it didn't matter how the rudder was
positioned. I thought
maybe I needed to be further away from my slip before I
had the advantage of
rudder steering but there wasn't much room to be had.
Isn't there something
known as "prop walking" that refers to this tendency?
Anyway, it was difficult and I was tired but I got her in,
ugly as it was.

Funny you didn't notice it before. You can use prop walk to
your advantage, just remember which way it walks, and line
yourself up accordingly. When I first got my current boat, I
practiced docking maneuvers, on a calm day, away from the
dock. I have a pronounced prop walk to port, in reverse.

Scotty