driving a boat vs a car

[mollykins]

Driving even an automatic car is a tad trickier than a motorised boat isn't it . . . .

I think my dad has finally lost his marbles. He let me drive the Jag!!! But it was only up the driveway (which is our private land so perfectly legal for me to do so). But it isn't a little driveway straight onto the road, it's about 20-30 metres and curved, and at the end there is no solid boundary betwen our driveway and our neighbours (who have a different entrance/exit) and on their side of the boundary is a caravan I could have easily crashed into. PLUS it's an automatic car and dad didn't warn me that if you're oon flat land, as soon as you put it in drive, and take your foot off of the brake it starts rolling forwards! Which took me by surprise a little.

[boxtops]

Well done molly - yes it is different! Unless you are always going to drive an automatic, I'd learn in a manual if I were you, then it's easier to drive anything.

[NazNomad]

"Driving even an automatic car is a tad trickier than a motorised boat isn't it . . . . "

Until you need to park it tidily, maybe.

[mollykins]

He has a manual van that he might let me do the same with tomorrow!

[mrs_overall]

I've had my Yachtmaster qualification and a full, clean driving licence for more years than I care to disclose, so I feel well qualified to say.....yes there is a difference lol

[Mick-Talbot]

yeah, but i persume he also told you, that if you put your foot back on the brake pedal and push your foot down. The car will stop????

[mollykins]

Mick everyone knows that, that's why it's called the brake pedal.

[Mick-Talbot]

and dad didn't warn me

that if you're oon flat land, as soon as you put it in drive, and take your foot off of the brake it starts rolling forwards!

Which took me by surprise a little.
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[Mick-Talbot]

iI thought it said 'did'

your dad, has lost his marbles.

[mollykins]

Mrs_o, but sailing is different to driving something like a cheverton champ, that's the kinda boat i'm comparing it to.

[mrs_overall]

I hate sailing! We've always owned motor boats - usually around the 40 ft size

[mollykins]

aahhhh . . . . okies.

[AlBags]

Remind me to stay away from your area : )

[mollykins]

mrs_o i don't know if i asked this before, but how hard do parallel parking a boat and car compare?

Albags, my dad said he won't put me on the insurance until i've passed. By which time i might be down south, unless I go to UEA

[mollykins]

dun dun duuunnn I've just realised that this means the fist time I ever drove a car was a JAGWARRRR !!! but does it not count if it weren't on the road? I had full control of it and had to turn the wheel and use the accelerator, brake and handbrake!

[boxtops]

The road doesn't go up and down and ebb and flow while you are trying to tie up.

[mollykins]

But at least when you are tieing up a boat, you can pull it a bit if you haven't parked perfectly, you can't do that with a car . . .

[mrs_overall]

Molly - it all depends
I find parking a car dead easy
Our boat is moored against a pontoon between two other boats. If the tide is running and it is windy, it is a total swine to moor up

[mollykins]

I can imagine mrs_o, when I did my boaty parallel parking the two boats either side belong to another nearby cadet unit that was different to mine or the instructor who didn't care if we bumped it. (everyone in the district hates the unit whose boats they are and especially the commanding officer.)

[AlBags]

Seriously .. Get started early.
More practise the better!