{"id":10980,"date":"2010-04-04T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/solo-landing\/"},"modified":"2010-04-04T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T07:00:00","slug":"solo-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/solo-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-100\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-100.jpg\" width=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Docking a new boat for the first time in a tight marina is always going to increase the blood pressure a bit. Doing it in a 65 foot \/ 20m yacht in a fairway less than two boat lengths wide with a beam wind makes it even more interesting. Mike Parker is at the controls, and while he is an experienced boat and sailplane driver, the tension shows (the public was watching).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"430\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-102\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-102.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were docking to pick up Brian Rickard after a night at anchor. Brian was coming aboard to do some final tune up on electronics before heading back to the states.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"518\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-103\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-103.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mike is coming in at an angle. He&#8217;ll use the prop walk to starboard in reverse to bring the boat parallel with the dock.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-104\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-104.jpg\" width=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian hops aboard, arms loaded, while Mike backs down.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-105\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-105.jpg\" width=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Had Brian waited just a few second more the deck edge would have been over the dock.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-110\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-110-1.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In aviation parlance Mike &#8220;greased parlance&#8221; his first landing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-107\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-107-1.jpg\" width=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later on, after dropping Brian off, we need to exit in a somewhat stronger beam wind. Mike could torque the boat around in the narrow channel using forward and astern, but he decides to try the bow pivot spring.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"439\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-106\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-106.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The spring is already rigged on the dock and he is going slow ahead with hard starboard rudder.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-111\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-111.jpg\" width=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Avatar<\/em> is rotating around the bow pivot spring.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-113\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-113.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The engine is in forward at idle providing plenty of thrust against the rudder to rotate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Mikes-1st-anding-115\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/mikes-1st-anding-115.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another thirty seconds and the boat will be pointing out the channel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Docking a new boat for the first time in a tight marina is always going to increase the blood pressure <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/solo-landing\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb-64-sea-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}