We have no issues with two person boat travel from St. Thomas to Martinique. The helmsman job is to put and keep the bow on the ball/pendant until the single crew working the bow gets the pendant secure. At the first hint of any load the standing order is the single person always ALWAYS lets the pendant go. You should never have more than one on the bow anyway. The helmsman should practice slowly approaching the mooring with no one on the bow until everyone on the crew is comfortable the helm can control the boat sufficiently for a single crew to walk forward and pick up the mooring with a hook. If one or more are ever wrestling or strained in any way on the bow during any anchoring, mooring, or docking the person at that wheel and controls is doing it wrong. The competent and prudent skipper will have a clear standing order to always release any line in the docking process that ever has any load on it. It is never worth it to risk injury to a crew member trying to overcome the errors of the person trying to drive the massive boat. The only reason to skip the two person trip is when one or more of the two do not have the passion to be on the boat. Have the crew working the bow stand just behind the helm. When the driver has the boat in control and in position the bow duty crew then walks forward to pick up the pendant just off one side of the bow. The helmsman drives and controls the heavy boat; never the person on the bow trying to use human strength to the horse the boat into position. Never try to hold a line under load ever! Never put yourself or any body part between the boat and dock. The boat is plastic. The human body and our hands are not.