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Ellen MacArthur Ellen MacArthur is offline
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Default Docking Situation Question #3


"Scotty" wrote
| the wind's blowing this bigger boat against the dock and
| you're going to hoist sail and THEN pull the boat INTO the
| wind by hand???


Well, yeah. But, I'm not talking about really big boats. I'd say anything up to 25
feet would work that way. A strong man could probably pull a 30 foot boat out in
say 10-15 miles per hour wind.

Cheers,
Ellen