"katy" wrote
| Most sailboats carry dock poles and preventer s...either works in the
| case specified...


Dock pole??? Preventer??? The only kind of preventer I know is used to keep the boom from jybing.
It's no use pushing off docks. I'm not familiar with dock poles. Are we talking about the same thing?
Here's a push pole. http://www.stiffypushpoles.com/stiffy.htm And here's a picture of one being used.
http://www.stiffypushpoles.com/image...poling-web.jpg Does that look like a sailboat to you?


Cheers,
Ellen