Who gives a sh*t. Kedging is used by those who know when to use it and when
not to use it. You don't need to kedge off a dock to get going 99.999% of
the time.

Nothing in the link provided describes kedging so you can sail away from a
dock.

If you want to discuss running aground and how to deal with that, feel free,
but to use your anchor to leave a dock is not something that should be
considered without a lot of forethought. I suppose you're going to swing it
over your head and then throw it like the hammer throw in the Olympics? What
a joke.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
reenews.net...
Capt. JG said "You need to get past the anchor thing. It's not going
to help you much."


You've been nothing but snooty to me today. What's wrong? Get up on
the wrong side of the bed? :-)
But, I forgive you. No, not for your silly statement about the *anchor
thing*. BTW it's called *kedging*.
So you're wrong about using anchors for kedging off docks and so forth.
Maybe you should click this link:
http://www.nsc.ca/nsc_library/techta...te_kedging.htm
As you can see captain, it's a time honored tradition. How do you
think they got boats off docks before
motors were invented? Did they wait until the wind was right? Maybe you
should Google "kedging". You'll
see how it's valuable to know about it.
Anchors aren't just for anchoring.

Cheers,
Ellen