macpete said:
+1 The best place for the most helpers is in the back of the boat. If you need another pair of hands, keep it to one person.
"I'll grab the pennant and haul it up, when I do, pass the line through the eye and then let the pennant go"
Seen real rugby scrums on the trampoline of a charter boat, many attempts, few successes. Far too many people, each with an opinion and a helpful suggestion.
Many hands make light work - unless you're trying to pick up a mooring ball.
Add another +1 That group "rugby scrum" can easily block the sight lines of the helmsman and distract the helmsman in many ways. The experienced the helmsman the more important to keep the distractions to a minimum. Even for the best the concern of who has their hands and fingers where is very distracting. Unless someone has an agreed assigned task on the bow they should not be there during anchoring or mooring. That task or "help" should only be requested by the person running the bow.
Nothing broadcasts "credit card(s), inexperience, incompetence like this on your anchorage approach.
How not to approach any anchorage The helmsman should do a 180 and allow the person assigned to work the bow to come up with a plan to complete that task with 2 or fewer. Then start the approach over.
