Man, excavated thread, I'm almost sure I voted this poll 2 years ago but it seemes I could vote now again?

I've had that happen with several of these. Apparently if the thread is left open long enough you get 'unvoted'.

I try not to dock at the same pen, because of that bug I've heard a couple of times.
If coming in at night, I might fire some starshells... I figured this might not be really realistic... but it's fun.
I only docked astern once... don't know why I don't do it that way anymore... I'll start doing it from now on.
What's the speed setting you guys use? I switch to the knotmeter and enter the pen at 3 knots, then reduce to 1 when almost half the boat has gone through and then order a "back slow" untill 0 knots (I might even man the CE post so as not to have the normal delay)... ooops... I think that'll have to change if I start doing it backwards!

Within 30km of base ...

I don't trust myself to dock the boat without doing damage to it, therefore increasing my stay in port.