silverback wrote:
"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
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"Scotty" wrote
| the wind's blowing this bigger boat against the dock and
| you're going to hoist sail and THEN pull the boat INTO the
| wind by hand???


Well, yeah. But, I'm not talking about really big boats. I'd say
anything up to 25
feet would work that way. A strong man could probably pull a 30 foot boat
out in
say 10-15 miles per hour wind.

Six tons of full keel cruising sailboat.... in 30 knots on a lee dock....
can be pulled to hook point.... even by a wimpy sissy like Ganz.

The wind force on the typical 30 foot sailboat in a 30 knot breeze is
about 700 pounds. And that's without the sail up.

I use to sail my 25 footer without firing up the engine for a season.
One of the few times I used it was to raise a well set anchor in a
crowded anchorage with a strong breeze. Even though I was 30 years
younger, I could just barely haul the boat up to the anchor with sails
set, and that was probably 500 pounds on the rode.



I bet even Ole Thom could easily manage a 40 footer. The only thing to
overcome is inertia....

With a 40 footer, the strain goes well over 1000 pounds. Yes, there
are probably a few tricks you can play, but just hauling hand over
hand isn't going to do much.