Anyone use an anchor on a swinging mooring?

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Most of the Ullswater Yacht Club mooring buoys have a steel pin passing through the buoy with a large hoop on top to which most people attach the mooring strops. Some more sensible persons attach the main strop to the top and the secondary chain or rope strop to the the bottom. I have been told that this week, one of the steel pins pulled out from one of the moorings and let the boat loose (and so, presumably, the boat was only attached to the top hoop). Happily, it drifted against the pontoon rather than out into the lake. The lake is currently running at flood level and so there is more loading on the mooring set ups.
So to the titled question "Anyone use an anchor on a swinging mooring?" May not dig in initially but this would at least give some protection against the mooring buoy pin failure.
 
You can't use both the mooring and anchor the front of the boat. Even if the mooring has a swivel, the anchor will tangle round the mooring tackle as the boat swings.

On Windermere I used two rope strops from the shackle above the top swivel on the riser chain and a backup chain strop from the same place.

The mooring failed at the bottom swivel, the hard one to get at!
 
As said for a swing mooring you need a swivel and this must be the only link in the mooring set up. So best to have a stout GI swivel that can be easily inspected for condition and wear. An anchor can be fine for part of the mooring itself but must be attached below that swivel. Likewise you can attach multiple ropes from swivel to hull all for added security but the boat must be allowed to rotated around the mooring. olewill
 
My mooring contractor when I was on Ullswater, fixed one strop to the top pin and a chain to underneath. You need belts & braces on Ullswater, as it can come whooshing down there.
 
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