Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks.<\/p>\n
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Do you have a primary fuel filter and water separator for your engine?<\/p>\n
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Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on prop walk in reverse. 90% of those who replied do experienced prop walk and of those who don’t 88% have multihulls while 12% have boat’s with twin rudders. 66% say that prop walk definitely affects maneuvering and docking in reverse. The most common technique for managing prop walk is to gain stern-way and then put the engine in neutral. Other said they angle the boat to a make use of the natural prop walk as they back into a slip. Others said they “back and fill”. And, several said using the bow thruster helps correct for prop walk in reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. Do you have a primary fuel filter and water separator for your engine? Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on prop walk in reverse. 90% of those who replied do experienced prop walk and of those who don’t 88% have multihulls while 12% have boat’s with twin rudders. 66% say that prop walk definitely affects maneuvering and docking in reverse. The most common technique for managing prop walk is to gain stern-way and then put the engine in neutral. Other said they angle the boat to a make use of the natural prop walk as they back into a slip. Others said they “back and fill”. And, several said using the bow thruster helps correct for prop walk in reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45304,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45302\/revisions\/45304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}