My marina is primarily a dry stack operation with about fifty wet slips and fifteen or so of these under an annual lease. Dry stack boaters use the remaining slips if they want a slip for the night or weekend.
There is an adjacent boat dealership dealing in mostly bow riders, deck boats and center consoles. We get a constant flow of brand new boaters.
A couple weeks ago, a guy managed to drive his boat sideways actually over a finger pier and hit a boat in the next slip. Mostly what I see though is people driving too slowly and the current taking them into finger piers or other boats. Often, when they see they are about to hit something, they turn the wheel and hit the throttle, forgetting that unlike a car, a boat steers from the back. This just makes the collision worse.
There is a captain at the marina who gives group and individual training and I try to recommend this when I can without sounding insulting.
There is an adjacent boat dealership dealing in mostly bow riders, deck boats and center consoles. We get a constant flow of brand new boaters.
A couple weeks ago, a guy managed to drive his boat sideways actually over a finger pier and hit a boat in the next slip. Mostly what I see though is people driving too slowly and the current taking them into finger piers or other boats. Often, when they see they are about to hit something, they turn the wheel and hit the throttle, forgetting that unlike a car, a boat steers from the back. This just makes the collision worse.
There is a captain at the marina who gives group and individual training and I try to recommend this when I can without sounding insulting.