Capt. JG wrote:
Here's the original question:

How do you sail off a dock when the wind is
setting you towards the dock. [Assume an end-tie
situation with no motor] 1 pt

Nothing said about kedging off. If the question had been how do you kedge
off the dock so you can sail, then we could have a discussion about
particular techniques.

As Scotty said, it's *an* answer, not the question.

I'm still waiting for the explanation about how one kedges off the dock when
there's no one around to take the kedge out or you don't have a dinghy to do
it or the conditions are such that you shouldn't take your dinghy off.

Heh. Nobody said it was *the* answer, only that it was *an* answer.

I can't understand the bit about not having someone around to take the
kedge out anyway. The boat's tied up to a dock, right? What's to stop
*you*, if singlehanding, taking the kedge out yourself?

In addition if the wind/waves are bad enough to stop you
rowing/motoring a dinghy off to drop the kedge anchor, I'd like to see
you get the big boat off the dock face. You sure aren't going to be
pushing it off.

Besides you missed the obvious scenario where kedging off wouldn't
work, if you're looking for reasons not to do something.

Now I've lost interest. You're just arguing to try and obfuscate a
pretty simple answer that you don't agree with, because Mooron
suggested it originally.

PDW