Product Details

• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Bennett Marine Video
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2007
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000077VP7
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,665 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Bennett Marine "Handling and Anchoring Your Boat" DVD covers all aspects of boat handling, docklines, docking and undocking, effect of wind and currents, steering the boat and maneuvering with no engine. The anchoring section covers the types of anchors, how to select them, chain and line rode, selecting an anchorage, setting the anchor, dragging surge, retrieval and stowing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Simply Terrible!!!, June 22, 2008

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Boatrjack (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handling & Anchoring Your Boat [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the the worst DVD I have bought relative to Boating/Boat Handling.

The Video quality that of a poor home made video, and the Audio is overshadowed with constant and very loud wind noise that not only makes what is being said hard to hear but extremly annoying.

Now onto the video contents. First off, for the two narrators who are supposed to have 25 yrs of boating experience each, I ask -- Did anyone ever tell you that you are instructing how to tie a line onto a dock cleat incorrectly?

This DVD is complete trash. I realize that I only paid $19 for it (ie. suggested retail is around $34 or $39) but it is worthless. I just threw it into the garbage, and believe me I'm not in the habit of throwing my money away.

Don't get ripped off. Stay away from this product as it is worthless.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low quality, but informative, October 27, 2007

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Bill Kearney "wkearney99" (Bethesda, MD USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Handling and Anchoring Your Boat (DVD)

The information presented on the Bennett DVDs is good. Unfortunately the quality is terrible. Basically it looks like someone simple dubbed their VHS versions of these onto DVDs. They didn't even do a decent job of setting up the DVD menus. I would not recommend these to others. I picked up mine cheap off of eBay, but there's no way I'd pay retail for material of such low presentation quality.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE, June 22, 2008

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Boatrjack (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handling and Anchoring Your Boat (DVD)

First off, I wish I would have read the other review done on this DVD before buying it.

The video quality is less than home made quality. The audio is horrible with VERY LOUD wind noise that not only overpowers the narrators, but is very annoying.

The contents of the video are worse than a B rated movie. Hey guys -- you have 25 yrs experience in boating and you don't even know how to properly tie a line onto a dock cleat???

The publishers of this Video DVD should be ashamed of themselves for distributing such garbage.

If you are new to boating and make the mistake of buying this DVD before reading this review, my advice is to trash it.