added weights to mooring bridle

[NormanS]

I need to get out more

If you have a 'bridle' across a river then you close the river for any other user.

I simply don't understand.

Strangely I know about the 10m tides on the Mersey. Equally strange - I recall just down river from New Brighton there is a breakwater ('big bank') that floods before high tide opening the estuary to the the Irish Sea and Liverpool Bay (and the full force of a strong NWly wind.

Jonathan

If it's a chain bridle across the river, it surely doesn't close the river to other users. Think of chain ferries.

 

[Neeves]

If it's a chain bridle across the river, it surely doesn't close the river to other users. Think of chain ferries.

No mention that its chain.

Jonathan

 

[NormanS]

No mention that its chain.

Jonathan

I assumed that when the OP mentioned 12mm chain in #18, that it was chain.

 

[Neeves]

I assumed that when the OP mentioned 12mm chain in #18, that it was chain.

A fair assumption - but I find assumptions based on posts can be invalid. I like certainty. It makes replies to questions more useful.

If the OP is talking about laying a chain, 12mm, across a river bed and attaching a single riser then the river must be very narrow (or he has an unnescessarily long piece of chain (which certainly would not need an angel). I would not then have called the long chain a bridle, but a ground chain.

Jonathan