Thursday 30 August 2012

Bow thrusters

Today i helmed a sunseeker 52 manhatten. A really nice boat. When coming out of the berth it al went a bit wierd. The bow thruster came on intermitantly . I turned it off and backed it out into the river with the tide still flooding [ not very wise ] . Then tried the thruster again  and it worked fine. Eventually got it in the dock with a nice force 5 cross wind. Turned the engines off and all of a sudden the bow thruster came on by itself the unit had already been turned off . I had to run and turn off the main batteries. Not good when the boats worth a million sqid. Had to take it back an hour later. But we turned off the bow thruster breaker. No bow thruster no stern thruster and a cross wind. Thankgod for big fenders. I Love sternthrusters and big  fenders.