A New Design for Moorings

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G'day All,

Another Ozzie invention.....

Just thought you might like to look at a new mooring system that: meets insurance requirements, will not damage the sea bed with a chain dragging all over it, has been tested to 80 knots, reduces the swing circle by up to 50% so should increase mooring availability, is cheaper to maintain, provides a more comfortable ride with no snatching, and the list goes on.

see the link below.

http://www.ezyridermooring.com/

Avagoodweekend......
 
Looks like a clever system. Hope that means that there might be a few more moorings available in the Whitsundays.
Can't see it catching on in my neck of the woods, UK Thames estuary. We have plenty of sticky mud, I don't think the environmentalists have declared that as being endangered [yet].
 
Another web-site with too much gimickry though. The diagrams in the gallery enlarge to huge dimesions and then black out when you click on the minus tool and the pop-up window can't be maximised.
The animated gif on the How It Works page stutters to as halt.


Why don't people just do a simple site that you can navigate around at will?
 
....and not with our 5 - 6mtr + tide range. What sort of bungee would it need in the Channel Islands 10mtr + tides??

I don't know about the bungee, as I've just lost another main buoy - the 3rd in 3 years!! I've yet to see if it is the shackle that is missing, or the buoy itself that failed. Bu99er, another trip to MacSalvors!!
 
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Just thought you might like to look at a new mooring system that: meets insurance requirements, will not damage the sea bed with a chain dragging all over it, has been tested to 80 knotsAvagoodweekend......

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Several of these in the Shoalhaven river. Supposed to be the bees knees and the only way to install new moorings. Couple of years ago now we had a gale force wind for a couple of days from a slightly different angle than normal. Everyone of these dragged and the yachts ended up on the beach or in the mangroves. Some damage done to yachts held fast on traditional moorings by "passing" yachts. The only advantage I could see was the rescue association had no trouble recovering the moorings.

They seem to be troublesome with a normal fresh seabreeze and an opposing fresh tide. Some yachts chafe against the buoy and this can't be good for the finish. Seems to be the yachts with fin keels that are effected, long keels just hang back in the tide.

The national parks use the same set up in Jervis Bay for courtesy moorings, you are not allowed to anchor in a lot of places. Old bloke in a 30 foot yacht dragged up onto the rocks. After appearing on TV managed to get them to cough up for repairs.
 
Well I have to say that I wasn't that impressed by it at all. Piled type moorings are brilliant if you have done the proper soil analysis for the location in question. Otherwise all you have a heavy but inefficient anchor that will not reset if it drags. The buoy at 230 kg buoyancy is bigger than a 45 gallon drum - that seems a bit large for a 26 - 33 foot boat. The analysis they have done looks at wind but I am not convinced that they have had a really good look at the dynamics of wave induced loads.

It is however an interesting problem.
 
I'm in with boomerangben.
Being in the moorings game I also see issues with wave action. Not to mention permenantly immersed staineless steel and bungy cords. Been there done that and definatly not going back.
 
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