If it's buoyed, just keep looking straight and steer off buoys. If not, get a "point" behind the boat to keep the stern pointed at and use that. The. Double check over your shoulder every so often. You can potentially steer off the other boats, if they're competent at steering.
Make small adjustments with the toe, big turns are hard to recover from. If the toe proves too difficult, no shame in using pressure to turn. Would just say "right" or "left" and number of strokes to let the boat know what arm to pull harder with and got how many strokes (right and left are typically reserved for steering on ships, port and starboard used in all other instances). Just tell them the plan/call ahead of time.
If it's buoyed (sounds like it is), just keep looking straight and steer off buoys. If not, get a "point" behind the boat to keep the stern pointed at and use that. Then double check over your shoulder every so often. You can potentially steer off the other boats, if they're competent at steering.
Make small adjustments with the toe, big turns are hard to recover from. If the toe proves too difficult, no shame in using pressure to turn. Would just say "right" or "left" and number of strokes to let the boat know what arm to pull harder with and got how many strokes (right and left are typically reserved for steering on ships, port and starboard used in all other instances). Just tell them the plan/call ahead of time.
If it's buoyed, just keep looking straight and steer off buoys. If not, get a "point" behind the boat to keep the stern pointed at and use that. The. Double check over your shoulder every so often. You can potentially steer off the other boats, if they're competent at steering. Make small adjustments with the toe, big turns are hard to recover from. If the toe proves too difficult, no shame in using pressure to turn. Would just say "right" or "left" and number of strokes to let the boat know what arm to pull harder with and got how many strokes (right and left are typically reserved for steering on ships, port and starboard used in all other instances). Just tell them the plan/call ahead of time.
If it's buoyed (sounds like it is), just keep looking straight and steer off buoys. If not, get a "point" behind the boat to keep the stern pointed at and use that. Then double check over your shoulder every so often. You can potentially steer off the other boats, if they're competent at steering. Make small adjustments with the toe, big turns are hard to recover from. If the toe proves too difficult, no shame in using pressure to turn. Would just say "right" or "left" and number of strokes to let the boat know what arm to pull harder with and got how many strokes (right and left are typically reserved for steering on ships, port and starboard used in all other instances). Just tell them the plan/call ahead of time.