You are 15 feet off a pier and docking a vessel using only a bow breast line and stern breast line. Once the slack is out of both lines you begin to haul in on the bow breast line. What is the effect on the vessel?

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The bow will come in and the stern will remain the same distance off the pier.

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The bow and stern come in equally closer toward the pier.

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The bow will come in and the stern will go out.

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The stern will come in and the bow will remain the same distance off the pier.

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