Single-handed docking: give me your best tricks (windy day edition)

Midship spring to a winch is THE answer, you're already there. Add: rig it before you enter the fairway, and come in slower than feels right — slow-motion mistakes are recoverable, fast ones are fiberglass.

Unpopular but real: a remote windlass fob in your pocket and confidence to abort. Three go-arounds is seamanship, not failure.

Talk to yourself out loud through the whole approach. 'Wind's pushing the bow, neutral now, spring on.' Sounds insane, works completely. The dock crowd thinks you have a crew below.

All adopted. The narrating thing I already did but pretended I didn't. Glad we're all insane together.