otnmbrd wrote in message hlink.net...
Joe wrote:
Do you have a current were you dock?

When your docking your boat do you like a little current or not?

I loved one marina I lived in because it had a 3-7 knot current that
ran parellel to the dock. It was great having the current to work
against. Always made arrival and departure smooth as a feather.

Only bad point was marine life grew on the hull faster and we were
affected by wakes more often.

Here in the marina I'm at now we have still water and its 2 tight left
turns
into the slip. Windage is a bitch, and I have a left hand wheel and
dock bow in
port side to always throwing the stern away from the docking side
while backing, and I usually have to back some because of the speed
needed to make it in the slip without being blown down. If I stay here
much longer Im going to have to get a right hand wheel.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

I frequently have to make stbd side too dockings with right hand props.
As I'm approaching the dock, I try to be in a slow left turn, so that
when I back to stop for position, the prop walk stops my swing and I'm
flat alongside. If possible for your situation, same would apply, in
reverse.

otn

I do not have room to make a slow right hand turn, it's left turn
left tuen and no room for a S turn. And the way the winds channels
between the building here slow is usually not an option. But I know
what your saying.

Joe