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A short anchor-braking technique lets a single-handed or short-handed crew reposition a boat in a tight marina berth without resetting the anchor from scratch.Watch Alexandros Retsinas demonstrates the maneuver at Scala Marina after port police redirect him to a deeper berth mid-approach.0:15 While backing in, he orders the anchor stopped; the rode goes taut, halts the boat, and the hull recoils forward.0:24 He uses that recoil momentum to swing the stern to port by cycling the rudder hard to port then hard to starboard, adding a short burst of forward throttle to accelerate the pivot.0:30 Once the stern is aligned with the new berth, he reverses again, centering and then shifting the rudder to port to control the final approach.0:49 Critically, he never retrieves or re-drops the anchor during the pivot — he marks the position where the boat first stopped and resumes paying out chain only after the bow crosses that same point on the new approach line, ensuring correct scope for the final set.1:01

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