Bollards!

[AngusMcDoon]

What are these yellow things for? They are substantial and well bolted down...

They are on the end of every finger of newly installed pontoons.

 

[pmagowan]

Quoits

 

[Tony Cross]

To stop people sitting on the end of the finger pontoon dangling their legs in the water?

 

[sarabande]

To help people sitting on the end of the finger pontoon dangling their legs in the water?

 

[JVL]

For climbing out after unintentional swim

 

[AngusMcDoon]

For climbing out after unintentional swim

They are a long way up. I'd have thought a conventional ladder would be better.

 

[sarabande]

if you add some vertical blue stripes, you'd have an emergency wreck marking bollard.

 

[NOHOH]

To signify that is a "powerboat only" berth (big vertical nobs here)?

 

[RichardS]

For lassooing (or is that lassoing?) purposes, as practised by some forumites, probably under cover of darkness.

Richard

 

[ProMariner]

Mounts for a portable MOB ladder?

 

[Tony Cross]

Perhaps it's the "middle finger salute" as in "don't even think about mooring here!"....?

 

[Fantasie 19]

Rope diverter (to make a clearer run for a line from the opposite side to the cleat)???

 

[Concerto]

To stop you riding on to the finger or possibly the opposite.

Probably fitted to show where the finger is for boats with high freeboards.

 

[jac]

sex toys?

 

[Kylora]

Can be used with a slip line to help reverse a Vega ?

 

[greeny]

They'd be ideal for my satellite dish mounting. Just have to keep people off your pontoon finger.

 

[aquaplane]

The ones @ Loch Aline are by the safety ladder so I'll vote for that option.

 

[Daydream believer]

Good idea whatever they are for if one can lasso them when parking. However if one just happens to be the same height of your strip around the gunwhale the boat can rock & the post will carefully prize the strip off for you as the boat comes down on it.. Dun laghaire has ladders with bits like that & they fit perfectly under my gunwhale so i speal from experience

 

[RobbieW]

Can be used with a slip line to help reverse a Vega 

or any other boat that is 'willful' in reverse

 

[southseaian]

These yellow posts are provided for those wishing to "dip the rope".
Note: Who ever tied up to the cleat did not use a method which would allow a proper seaman to follow with a "dip the rope" technique!!!