Chaff guard.

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I have a rope mooring penant, for a swinging mooring and want to beef up the chaff protection. It seems to be chaffing on the forestay. Can anyone reccomend anything? I was thinking of an inner tube, but a few more layers won't do any harm...

Also, I was thinking of running a couple of extra lines from the boat to the buoy, with plenty of slack in them - is this a good idea, or will the whole lot just chaff against each other?
 
We run our mooring tackle through a bit of clear plastic hose - it does get a bit stiff so you need to watch for chaff (not that we've had any, but it's a good idea anyway) ... the backup connection is a length of 8mm chain running through another plastic hose ... this is loose, so all the tension is in the warp.
These two go to an oversized swivel which is connected to the top of the mooring (the riser comes right through the mooring buoy - none of this fishing below the buoy lark!) - it is just a galvanised swivel - not stainless, although some do have stainless...

The two lines to the boat is a minimum requirement for our club moorings.
We have not lost a boat that I can recall (other than the "great storm" - which sunk our club launch, but I didn't have a big boat then)

Alternatives to plastic hose is old fire hose ... this is a lot softer, but should be just as good.
 
Can you change the lead of the pennant so that it goes nowhere near the forestay? Many yachts have fairleads just aft of the stemhead. If not you can stitch a length of old sailcloth around the pennant where it chafes.
Oldtime riggers used to carry out an operation called worming, parcelling and serving the rope as anti chafe protection. I remember learning a little piece of doggerel which went:
Worm and parcel with the lay.
Turn and serve the other way.
This makes the rope stiffer, stronger and protected against chafe and, if treated with Stockholm tar, waterproof.
 
What you need is a Scotchman. That's a piece of sailcloth or leather bound around your mooring pennant at the point where the chafeing takes place. As to why it's called a Scotchman ah dinnae ken.
 
Plastic (soft) hose split and fitted with cable ties then a bit of hydrolic hose slpit and fitted on top of plastic , the hydrolic hose has a layer of steel and will not chaf. usead this for years all year round touch wood. just make sure that plastic is longer than the black hydrolic hose.
 
The trouble with chain is it's a rope riser, so there would be chaff at the other end then.

The pennant is too fat for the fairlead which would avoid the forestay.

I'll wrap some sail cloth around the penant, and put a plastic hose, and a hydraulic hose over that - belt and braces.

Not quite sure what sort of hydraulic hose I want. The pennant is 28mm. I can't even work out what the diameters are:

http://shhs.co.uk//advanced_search_result.php?keywords=hose

Any idea what R1T and R2T and Fm/F,m and F90
 
Any idea what R1T and R2T and Fm/F,m and F90 ( No sorry)

why not wrap your pennant with the sail cloth then soft plastic hose lik you say then measure
the diameter give the company a phone and explain what you want the hydraulic hose for tell them the diameter , most companys have a bits of waste hose short offcuts and for a small fee will split the hose for you and post it off, failing that buy new or phone round local srapyards, myself i get it from a mate who has an Engineering Business in Aberdeen hope this helps
Cheers A
 
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