Are we setting up wrong?

[The Dogs Pollacks Brother]

Morning all..........
We have the Grumpy one on a swinging mooring at Dale in W Wales and are having issues with the moorings.
Before the season started, we replaced the whole lot........anchor block, riser...the lot, and all upgraded in size too.
By April we "lost" our mooring bouy, we put it down to the huge storms we had as there was some damage to vessels and moorings there.

We replaced this and low and behold we lost a second bouy within a month again!.......funny how they never get returned, even with the vessel name and mooring number on them!?

Replaced this one and, yes...you guessed it.....it wasn't there on the weekend!

Getting a little p155ed off now!.....we were asked on the weekend if we had our swivel in the correct place? As far as I recall, we replaced it all in a like-for-like set up but I now have doubts in my mind?

Would anyone be able to post up a diagram as to the correct assembly of all the shackles, swivels, links ect? I have tried google ect but my works pc here is blocking pretty much everything so can't see a diagram that way.

I am still suspecting theft tbh.......it does dry out there and I cant get my head around how shackles can undo by tide and wind motion alone?

Many thanks...

Jeff.

 

[Lakesailor]

How are you seizing the shackles?
I do them as tight as possible and then mouse them using sheep fencing wire (galvanised steel wire which is very difficult to bend.
Contractors on the lake seem to use a lot of force to tighten the shackle pins and nylon cables ties to mouse with.
If someone is pinching them you need to provide the maximum difficulty for them so they will pinch someone else's.

I used to peen the threads on the end of the pin to prevent them winding back, but most shackles seem to have shorter pins now. These older shackles have longer threads but the new one didn't

 

[sarabande]

any experience of abrasion of the nylon rope against the chain or adjacent shackle pin in that set-up ? (I can't see how it all hangs together in the water. Is the nylon the pickup rope ? )

 

[The Dogs Pollacks Brother]

We have no rope in the set up at all......we have riser chain up to a shackle, then a swivel with the mooring bouy onto this shackle, and also the bow securing chain and pick up bouy off the same shackle.

I will try to botch up a diagram and post it......