Driving any single engine direct-drive boat, be it sail, trawler or even a wakeboard boat, you need that maneuver in your arsenal of skills. Which side you can do it on depends on which direction your prop rotates. Earlier this summer I let my neighbor drive my boat since my son started having a meltdown cause we were going home. After about a minute of the boat doing nothing he wanted it to, he screamed, "I can't do this, switch!" It was windy and he never even got it pointed towards the dock. They just don't behave like stern drive boats most people are used to.
first I’ve heard of the ability to do it having to to with the direction of your prop’s rotation. That’s really a thing? I’ve never had an issue doing it on either side, with boats from small John boats and ski boats to rigid hull inflatables to the monohulls and catamarans they were part of.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_walk I'm talking about single engine, shaft drive boats, like the Wanderer. Things with outboards or I/O drives, or twin engine boats like most catamarans, have a lot more maneuverability. Yeah, some single engine shaft drive boats you can still do it to either side, but there will be a better, easier side, because of prop walk. Some boats you won't be able to do it to either side. I delivered a Morgan 35 that would spin counter-clockwise on a dime with reverse, but a tight clockwise turn was nearly impossible.
I dint know who had the idea to give Kurt Russel the funny role and Martin Short the straight one.... but it worked. It’s like “Major Payne”, where the title character is so exceedingly hilarious you forgive the dumb stuff happening when they’re not on screen. “Ted’s!!!”
Video chatted with my mom. She has some phrasing on things that I desperately want to correct but go the passive route of just using correct phrasing when I speak. Today she referred to a baby sucking its thumb as ''pleasuring itself.'' Mom. God. ''Self soothing.''