Are you a good coxswain?

[Matt]

Try this...

http://www.addictinggames.com/dockingperfection.html

[LTGunner]

Are you a good coxswain?

No, I'm a Naval Gunner, try this:

http://www.allfunnystuff.com/content.php?type=recent&iid=2794&cid=29   

[sethjamto]

I'm pretty damned confident in my boathandling skills, but damned!  Thats tough!  I swear that I am making perfect port side to approaches and it still sinks me after over a dozen tries!

[vftb]

Hey, believe it or not there's actually a pretty good ship simulator out there; it's called "Ship Simulator" put out by Vstep.  To an old driver, it's pretty realistic.  I believe it originates in Holland and there are no service ships at the present; I like the container ships the best.  If you really want to test your patience, try moving the Titanic around.

[Peter3_1]

Operated an old WW2 Launch when I was a kid , taking boatowners out to their moorings. Got pretty good at it too. One day, the throttle jamed whids open as I came along side a very expensice yachy. Jammed it into reverse, stopped about an inch from the yacht and killed the motor begore it exploded. Motored back to the dock on the ignition switch, on for a secong, off as the motor wound down, then on for a second or two, etc etc. It was an old hydralic throtle setup and the gasket failed, the fluid ran out except for enouch to open the throtle.

The marine mechanic had it repaired by the next day, and it never failed again, but I piloted it with more attention and more care than I had before.....

[Matt]

Hey, believe it or not there's actually a pretty good ship simulator out there; it's called "Ship Simulator" put out by Vstep.  To an old driver, it's pretty realistic.  I believe it originates in Holland and there are no service ships at the present; I like the container ships the best.  If you really want to test your patience, try moving the Titanic around.

Stick to the topic, Hans 

Can you dock this boat without using a bow thruster?    

[Matt]

I'm pretty damned confident in my boathandling skills, but damned!  Thats tough!  I swear that I am making perfect port side to approaches and it still sinks me after over a dozen tries!

Yep it's a tough one...I gave up after only 5 tries

[vftb]

Hey, believe it or not there's actually a pretty good ship simulator out there; it's called "Ship Simulator" put out by Vstep.  To an old driver, it's pretty realistic.  I believe it originates in Holland and there are no service ships at the present; I like the container ships the best.  If you really want to test your patience, try moving the Titanic around.

Stick to the topic, Hans 

Can you dock this boat without using a bow thruster?    

  I guess I don't get it; just like

I'm pretty damned confident in my boathandling skills, but damned!  Thats tough!  I swear that I am making perfect port side to approaches and it still sinks me after over a dozen tries!

  Is this a trick game; slide up to the dock and it does nothing.  Are you supposed to throw out lines, or what??

[JerryG]

I was a PS.

While at the King Adbul Aziz Port in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, I went from being an FNG (boat-wise) to doing bow-ups in four foot seas for my coxswain in about three months on a 22-foot TPSB Raider boat.

I got my crew letter, 3/4's of my engineer quals signed off, and 1/2 of my coxswain quals done.  I never finished because the !@#$%^&*() war ended and we had to go home.

Oh, well!

[OFFSHORE DIESEL]

Another short story...
I was an Engineman and qualified as Underway OOD on an 82 WPB. To those non Coasties reading this that means I could run the boat, drive it ,dock it, tie it up, whatever. Very few Engineman got to do that.

A friend bought a big fast twin diesel 55 foot dive boat and invited me out for a ride. He knew I was Former Coast Guard and allowed me drive his boat. I told him he was being too gentle with the boat and needed to push the two red handles harder. He hesitated, so I did it for him. Those two Detroit 8V92's started screaming. Then I asked him if I could show him how we used to come alongside the fuel barges in Vietnam at 20 knots and stop in a boat length. He decided that I was finished driving the boat. Whenever I come on in his pilot house, he watches me like a hawk.

Thank you for Your Service.
Diesel
NY

[vftb]

I had just the opposite experience Diesel; my dad and his buddies were deepsea fishing fools.  They used to want to go fishing off of Santa Cruz in stupid weather and seas; sure nough, my dad used to proudly state "Hans was in the CG, he can drive" and the fools would turn their expensive boats over to me.  What's even dumber, I was dumb enough to get suckered into it.   

[BuoyJumper]

      That's funny Diesel, it kinda reminds me the first time I did that with my Dad's 40-foot Matthews.  I asked him if I could dock the boat so he says, "think you can do it son?"  Probably not a good idea to issue a challenge like that to a smart ass 15 year old kid but he did.  Now mind you I had taken the boat out of the slip many times and I knew how to handle the twin screw diesels so I was pretty ****ey.

So I get behind the wheel and he goes up to the bow to handle the bow line.  I come stormin in the slip head on at a pretty good clip and he's yellin, "SLOW DOWN - SLOW DOWN" and his arms are wavin like he's a chicken tryin to fly off the bow. So I set the wheel amidships and ram both morse controls down to full reverse and my Dad nearly takes a header off the bow.  The Matthews comes to a perfect stop just exactly where I wanted to be to tie up.  So I thought, oh ****, he's gonna whip my britches for a month of Sundays I better get the hell outta here.

So I secure the stern line and jump off the dock and swim across the marina.  By the time I had up enough nerve to come back to the boat he had cooled down but he was still really pissed off.  So he told me, "First, you docked the boat a little fast but it ended up where it should have and second your grounded for thirty days.            

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[fishnfanatic]

Another short story...
I was an Engineman and qualified as Underway OOD on an 82 WPB. To those non Coasties reading this that means I could run the boat, drive it ,dock it, tie it up, whatever. Very few Engineman got to do that.

A friend bought a big fast twin diesel 55 foot dive boat and invited me out for a ride. He knew I was Former Coast Guard and allowed me drive his boat. I told him he was being too gentle with the boat and needed to push the two red handles harder. He hesitated, so I did it for him. Those two Detroit 8V92's started screaming. Then I asked him if I could show him how we used to come alongside the fuel barges in Vietnam at 20 knots and stop in a boat length. He decided that I was finished driving the boat. Whenever I come on in his pilot house, he watches me like a hawk.

Thank you for Your Service.
Diesel
NY

Maybe you should have showed him how you could turn it around on a dime and give him 11 cents change.