Seriously, If you use a long enough, and heavy enough chain here's what will
happen..............


[snip the lazy b/s]

NObody chains a boat to a dock. Not even the US Navy with its warships. They
rope. Always.

the marina might
take a dim view of your dockchain sawing through their pilings

in wind and waves, the chain will tear the decks chock and/or the dock chocks
loose. At least that is the experience of the US Navy.

Next time I take my oil rig out for a spin..

you might want to check out just how the oil rigs are anchored. There is a
simiplified, 380 page overview of catenaries (in the context of oil rigs)
available for a mere $1,015, plus shipping and handling.

are we anchoring at the dock? You
equate anchoring with tying up to a dock? Reaching again, aren't we?


so, all chain to the dock is NOT okay, and all chain to a rock onshore is also
NOT okay but all chain to a rock on the bottom is?

Why is that?

Why, then, pray tell, do they make anchor chain, chain windlasses, and
hardware specifically designed to attach chain to anchors?


because fat, weak, lazy old men will buy them.Why, then, pray tell, do they
make anchor chain, chain windlasses, and
hardware specifically designed to attach chain to anchors?

Is everyone misguided, save you?

my opinion is no different that the physicists, US Mil Spec and the oil rig
designers.

Please tell us why a chain with
appropriate score has no holding or shock absorbing power....

it is taught in freshman physics class. Rather simple, too.

No physics class? No capability to understand physics? Well then, think what
happens when you chain a boat to a dock.

You
might want to throw in a few sentences, too, why all larger vessels
use chain.....

simple.

a.) the chain will run through their hoists, and

b.) they never weather a storm at anchor.

R you forgetting scope?

yo-yo, tie 375 feet of chain to a rock on one side of a ravine and you pickup
truck on the other side, the slack going down thirty or forty feet. put the
truck in gear and step on the gas.

wanna guess what is just about to happen?

now, chain the pickup out for a boat, and think again.

now, chain the pickup out for a boat, and think again.

compare the drive efficiency of tires on pavement with a prop in the water and
then think again.

Compare the friction between the vehicle and the road vs. a vessel and the
water, and then think again.

Compare the function of an achor, (to hold a vessel in place when not underway)
to your example of applying extreme amounts of throttle.

Then, think again.