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


"silverback" wrote

| Row out your anchor to windward. Set your sails. Pull your vessel to the
| anchor. Tie off and set the sheets. Hoist anchor as you sail by. I've done
| this so often it's second nature. It's called casting off from a lee dock.
| No big deal.


I agree with you but Capt. JG says I should forget about using an anchor
to sail off a dock. For a captain maybe he's inexperienced???

Cheers,
Ellen