That's sort of what I was getting at. The only other thing I want to add (on top of what I wrote earlier) was this thought. If the boats were largely crewed by Cirdan's folk and required the crews the boats that size would need (given the size usually picked by "approved" illustrators I would estimate we are talking about a crew of twelve to fifteen constant which proably means a crew of twenty to thirty total (elves don't tire like men, but I would imagine that you would still need at least some spare sailors and more than one shift,) and who would make the trip one way, then that would bring up the question of whether people ever got "stuck" at the grey Havens for a time, that is were froced to stay there until sufficient quantities of "weary" had accumulated to make a full crew. Then again if by the end of the third age, eleves really were beginning to desert Middle Earth en masse , maybe such a wait was uneccary as boat were leaving fairly often, so getting together thirty took on a few days or weeks.
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