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[vyv_cox]

Re: Reality

Try it before being so confident. I would have expected to lift my wife easily with only the 8:1 mainsheet, no winch. I couldn't. It may help if you have davits as the lead from the boom end is not very fair on my boat. But in that case, presumably the davits are already occupied by the dinghy.

 

[rallyveteran]

Re: Reality

No davits. We lifted the loaded dinghy using the spinnaker halyard with a 4:1 tackle clipped to the end. If it worked with the dinghy, I can't see why it wouldn't work with a, much lighter, casualty.

Our problem with using the mainsheet would be how to position it so that the pull can be straight down. With our boat, this would require raking the boom to a huge extent, and even that might not work. If you can't position it in this way, the amount of pull does become a matter of crew strength, rather than crew weight. Then you would need a winch, I imagine.