Check Your Moorings

I agree with dipper - any shackle in a mooring set-up is a potential failure. My ground chain has a 6 inch diameter circular welded eye in the final link. The riser is 3 inch diameter multiplait with eye splice both ends. This is through the ring and back on itself. Two strops are similarly connected to the upper eye. The buoy is tied to the riser with maximum diameter rope which will pass through buoy eye. I am able to inspect by snorkelling at LWS but it has not required any attention whatsoever in five years.
 
Take your point. The multiple turns are each locked off before the next one so it's like two separate wires. In truth I think they get nibbled off by the shackles before they corrode. Although the last ones had been on 2 years with no problems. I generally check the shackles about once a month and more during the winter.
I know the stuff you mean (we have power poles across the beck) so I will try and filch some.

The shackles are confusing to look at in that pic. Perhaps this is easier.

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The shackle to the buoy from the chain also has my 1st strop shackled to it. In truth that would be better through a chain link beneath the buoy and I'll probably do that. The tail of the chain then has another strop on another shackle. That strop hangs loose and will only come into play should the main one fail.
If a gale is forecast I often go out and put another strop from the buoy to the foredeck cleat and on to a sheet winch. Just in case the foredeck cleat isn't as strong as I imagine.

We don't have a lot of choice on the lake as the wardens specify what size chain and scope you have.
 
As you say, it is safer than the first picture shows. You seem to have belt and braces and I was commenting on the braces!

I have my back-up strop through a link in the chain which you are thinking of doing. The only downside would be the lack of space in the link for a decent size shackle but you seem to have long links so it should be OK.

I don't know how many cleats you have on your foredeck. I have two cleats and the chain goes on one and the rope strop on the other. This spreads the load and provides a bit of shock absorbence through the rope.

You are lucky you don't have to deal with salt water. Your tackle (if I can use that word on this forum /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif ) looks pristine compared with mine.
 
I like to keep my gear pristine. Unfortunately Mrs Lakesailor complains about this. I used to have your system but found the chain corroded very quickly where it got wet. I now use 2 nylon strops.

These are 2 ends of the same 6ft chain strop after 8 months

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Do you have an inexhaustible supply of photos! If we asked for a picture of your bow roller or port side sheet winch for example, would you be able to produce them just like that? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
I did say IMHO ....

And it is true that various locking fluids are CA based ....
 
[ QUOTE ]
It would be better to use one turn of thicker seizing wire rather than several turns of thinner wire. Several turns of thin wire will corrode just as fast as one turn of thin wire.

[/ QUOTE ] I have had to read through all the posts to see if anyone else spotted this.

Dipper is quite right several turns of thin wire will not last any longer than one.

You should use one turn of the thickest wire that you possibly can.

Dipper is also right that Monel is incompatible, it is a copper- nickel alloy, and will cause corrosion of the galvanised steel but since the area of the wire is small in comparison it is unlikely to cause problems in fresh water.
 
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Top of the mast? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Re: I did say IMHO ....

chinese made short link chain on a mooring and galvanised as well... how weird is that. Not going near the zinc plated shackles.

Down this way that would be laughed at then condemmed inside one second. Actually condemmed first but laughed about for a long while.

Strange how differing parts of the world have so very differant ways of doing the same thing.
 
Re: I did say IMHO ....

You didn't see my post higher up then? I wouldn't use chain again. [ QUOTE ]
I like to keep my gear pristine. Unfortunately Mrs Lakesailor complains about this. I used to have your system but found the chain corroded very quickly where it got wet. I now use 2 nylon strops.

These are 2 ends of the same 6ft chain strop after 8 months

wornchain.jpg


[/ QUOTE ]
 
You having a go at my rigging screw?
It is wound right down and still I have too much rake, also the backstay is a tad short so I've used a couple of knuckles to extend it.
I have a feeling the previous owner got some rigging from another boat as it's fairly new, but the wrong lengths. I may be going to have a new end swaged on this spring to shorten the forestay. On the other hand the tiller is beautifully balanced, so why worry. I pointed the rake out to Steve Goacher and he he thought it was no problem.
 
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