Manoeuvre Port 2.0 (Mono)

Port Maneuvering for Monohulls Simulation

Do you still want to know what "Force in the front guard" means?

This maneuver, as well as all the important maneuvers, can be found in this application which is a professional harbor maneuver training program for skippers of monohull sailboats.

This course features a simulator with which you can experience the maneuver yourself under different circumstances. You can also load autopilot maneuver files from the maneuver library. Perfect for seeing how maneuvers are performed, for recording your own maneuvers, or for showing them to others.

All the maneuvers are described and can be performed as an interactive movie, step by step. Thus, for example, the different possibilities of a docking maneuver are described and clarified.

In addition to the basics, such as sailboat types, drift, propeller effect, the most common beginner mistakes are also described and made explicit. Perfectly suited as a presentation medium.

The software also contains exercises that you can show the crew aboard your sailboat.

The basics: Crew training, language on board, safety on board, types of sailboats, marinas, types of berths.

Driving Techniques: The basics, propeller effect, drift and thrust, wind influence, stance, flow on the rudders, leverage, spin in place, bow thruster, rookie mistakes.

Mooring: Preparations, force in the front guard, in the aft mooring, moor alongside the quay with the bow thruster, the basics concerning the moorings, mooring with mooring lines, Dukes of Alba, catways.

Docking: Preparations, along the quay, along the quay with bow thruster, force in the aft mooring, in the middle guard, in the front mooring, mooring with mooring lines, with Dukes of Alba, in catways, Mediterranean style.

Maneuvering with buoys: Docking, docking with buoys, using the propeller effect, docking from behind, maneuvering the lasso.

Anchor with an anchor: The basics, maneuver, hawser on land, anchor in the Mediterranean.