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.


Jeff

*******IF******** jeffies had the degree in physics he claims he has you would
know full well that loads that high and higher can be generated in a blow.
jeffies is too stew ped to know what shock loads wind gusts and waves put on a
boat.

jeffies is now going to spend hours on end googling to find some article in
BoatsUS that states the incorrect.

do not try to discuss anything even remotely connected to sailing or science
with jeffies unless his wife is standing behind him as he sits at a keyboard.
he really is too dense for words, and he will spin circles for weeks trying to
"prove" he is not dummer than a rock.