The pendant below would be the bare minimum on a 40+ footer if you want to stop "hunting" use two of these at equal lengths. That splice is perhaps 2% as strong as the line and flat out dangerous for a 43 footer!ģ) You have no thimbal or any sort of chafe protection on the mooring ball end of this bridal!Ĥ) The figure 8 reduces the line strength and could be a source of chafe! Here are some of the problems with that picture.ġ) Running riging has NO elasticity and should not be used to attach a boat to a mooring!Ģ) Your splices are, shall we say, M-I-C-K-E-Y MOUSE and would not hold you boat in anything more than utterly benign conditions. My boat was already hit once by a guy using similar mooring etiquite. If you actually plan on using that please, please, please don't ever come to Maine. Surely you would not attach a 43 foot boat to your mooring with that.
Also, save yourself a lot of aggravation and get a pick-up buoy.then you can sail right to your mooring single-handed and calmly walk up to the foredeck and pick up the penant with your hands. As far as line length, just make sure there is an approx 30 degree angle on the primary and an extra 30% length on the chain. Even on the bay last weekend, it blew 49 knots.Īnyway, good luck. If this sounds like overkill, in MHD, my boat was hanging by the chain after the rope primary was sawed through by the movement of the boat in the no-name (Perfect) storm. The attachments to the mooring are anchor shackles that are wire tied shut. The chain is your secondary line to the boat and goes around the other (opposite) cleat. The backup safety line should be chain that you can attached directly to the chain part of the mooring (often below the mooring ball-in the bay, rope is attached to the chain to go through the buouy). A braided penant is also not as strong as the equivalend 3 strand. With 3 strand, you can braid the loop that fits over one of your deck cleats, and the other end can be braided to the metal cleat that is attached to the mooring (forgot the name of those parts). Relative to the rope penant, I recommend 3 strand (1 inch or whatever fits the cleat). I've been on a mooring for the better part of 20 years.some in Marblehead Mass (open to the NE) and 6 yrs on the Chesapeake Bay (Hartge's on the West River).Īlthough people say it's overkill for the Bay (not MHD), I firmly believe you should have two lines going to the mooring.
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