Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Capt. JG" wrote
| You don't need, nor should you use, an anchor to sail away from a dock.


Sez who?

You certainly don't need it for your boat.

I can understand using it for a 6 ton crab crusher. For that matter,
I'm not sure about my boat, especially if I had a lot of constraints.

On the other hand, I did it many times, perhaps hundreds, with boats
like a Rhodes 19. You just push it off and get going. Or you get
someone else to push the boom.