"Jeff Morris" wrote

Booby, the breaking strength of a dock line is around 10,000 pounds.
There's no
way a properly setup line should encounter this force in a little
blow. You've
even said that you expected the blow and checked the lines a few
hours before.
If you doubled the lines that should have reduced the stress on any
one line.


his idea of checking lines is to see if they weren't stolen , yet.


The only explanation for this is incompetence.


YUP, gross incompetence.