Docking Competition - Chesapeake Bay Deadrise Workboats

[SteveM]

This is something else. Looks like fun.
https://www.facebook.com/ChesapeakeBayDeadriseWorkboats

[Carl]

Looks like a typical day at my Ol' marina.

Except a few more knocks to the poles and boats in general vicinity at my marina.
Almost had a guy turn his slip into a dry storage space...but boat slid back off the dock when he came off the throttle.

[Rawleigh]

Yep, the guys around here on the water all day are pretty good with those 40' single screw deadrises! they are fun boats to run with what we locally call a "Guinea stick" for steering that is a vertical stick attached to the gunnel that you push forward for port and pull back for starboard (named after a local backwoods watermans' community). You can go full throw of the rudder from one side to the other in about a second. They have lots of names elsewhere I am sure.

[bob lico]

Trust me when i tell you this is not fun! Thats how i normally have to dock Phoenix . Fellow boaters at your dock are thinking what if i screw up. I have derated the props and wot. Speed down to 7.2 mph at idle but still a little fast for docking.