If you are very aware of the boat and the effects of wind and current on that boat you may get away with bringing the mooring anywhere past amidship. The less experienced with that boat, those currents and wind will end up with the mooring cable on the keel, rudder, skeg, or prop. For that reason only those that really understand where the mooring cable is and how each boat will perform to any throttle or rudder change in the sea and weather conditions of the day should ever attempt anything but a simple pick up of the pendant from the bow once the helmsman has stopped the bow in that place. The person driving the boat must stop the bow where the single crew tasked with lifting the pendant onto the boat can do that without effort. All the skill and work must be with the person at the wheel and throttle. The single person on the bow simply lifts and places nothing more.