HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:


I guess JimH really doesn't want to know, so I will tell you. The
problem with most single screw boats is the prop walk. So instead of
keeping the boat in gear, you just "bump" the boat in and out of gear
(keeping it in gear for less than a second), you want to keep enough
movement to offset the wind or current. As long as you have movement
the outdrive acts as a rudder, and since you don't have continual prop
torque/walk, it is a piece of cake to back a single screw boat.

If you have a boat with a lot of surface area, it can be effected by
the wind, and you have to compensate for that with your initial
approach, but with a tiny runabout it becomes 2nd nature to spin the
boat around and back it up.



What a secret! Why, it is *amazing* no one ever thought of this before.
I mean, this gem of an original idea has never been seen in any boating
magazines, books or websites. Wow! Frippin' amazing.

Next thing you know, Reggie will climb aboard a boat that isn't indoors
at the Atlanta boat show.

Harry,
Maybe you didn't see my quotes around "secret". As I said, the marina
showed it to all new boaters and I see it used by people up and down my
dock, so it was a very well known "secret", but there are some
(obvioulsly JimH if could not back his boat into the slip) who don't
know it. When I see someone having trouble docking their boat, I always
suggest they try it, and it always seems to solve the problem for them.
I think you might be so upset because you didn't know about it
either. That is ok, even a boatless fool like me can teach you some
stuff, so just keep reading all of my posts.

Harry there are some people who have to pretend about their boating, and
they make up imaginary boats and imaginary boating trips. I don't.