Multiple mooring/docking scenarios

[Alex Ovi]

Hello, I'm really happy that I've found your application. It is really great!
But as a newbee in sailboat owning, I would like to ask for some extra scenarios for mooring/docking, because they are the most challenging for amateurs.

So, here is my list of suggestions:
1) Bow mooring as popular in scandinavic countries
2) Multiple winds and currents conditions (ideally with possibility to set them)
3) Usage of single lines to change orientation of the boat in dense conditions
4) Maybe it is realized, but I've not seen the propeller effect

Also basic scenarios for tugging can be useful — these situations a rare (actually not), but require specific skills, both on the side of tug and on the side of tugged boat.

Sorry if these items are already in a backlog.

Thank you again for such an amazing sim!

[TheArgento]

Hi,
All these suggestions are very good. I aggree with you as a new amateurs. number 2 and 3 will exactly be very usefull. Also we can set lines for directions such as stern - port - aft before docking and by clicking the related button activate them for tight to lines.
Best regards. And thank you for this project.

[cbaldwin256]

Thank you both for your excellent suggestions. We will be looking at mooring again and will have another look at these ideas then. Don't forget to leave a review if you have not already!

[76561198983663288]

Hi all! I also support the above feature requrest. Docking is my no 1 challenge. It would be cool to be free with lines and points to attach the mooring lines, e.g. just fixing the windward line aloneand finish the maneuver by line control and engine.

Additional scenario (Baltic Sea, Germany, the Netherlands..) is docking in a box.

[cbaldwin256]

Thank you for these. I will look into the 'docking in a box'. Is it where you have a big pillar which you lasso, then go stern-to (normally) like you get in the Caribbean and some other places?

[Tommy Lee]

This reminded me on tales from sailors in my country (Croatia), that some marinas can be so entagled in ropes (not everyone is carefull sailor I guess) that in many ocasions they moved from their marina slots manually. So it maybe usefull to have some places in game with tight and crowded marinas, so player could practise that (That is number one thing that scares me off from charter and even try to go sailing in real life).

[Sabasti]

Originally posted by Tommy Lee:

This reminded me on tales from sailors in my country (Croatia), that some marinas can be so entagled in ropes (not everyone is carefull sailor I guess) that in many ocasions they moved from their marina slots manually. So it maybe usefull to have some places in game with tight and crowded marinas, so player could practise that (That is number one thing that scares me off from charter and even try to go sailing in real life).

Consider taking tuition, lots of tuition. This game is no substitute for the real thing. It'll merely bring you up to a level when learning to sail is more practical and less homework. It won't teach you how to dock, just the concept. (Though it does really well with the spring lines).