Chichester Harbour Mooring Buoy Connection

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Then again, we are getting the mooring for free! We were told plus and minus 2 hours each side of HW. I assume that this is optimistic. QUOTE]
Used to keep my first boat in Prinsted - and depends on height of tides but you will on the whole average +or- 2hrs however, it can vary significantly with the pressure! and getting stuck in the channel isn't much fun..... remember a couple of times getting tide times very wrong !

Do not under estimate the chafe on your mooring - most vessels in Chichester use chain not rope and
Your mooring may be FOC but harbour conservancy dues are not ! and they are due soon.
 
We always used a shackled loop in the (backup) chain to drop around the cleat - to protect the deck against rust spots I used some old cycle inner tube to sheath the loop of the chain first.
We had a loop spliced into the main line to drop around the other cleat too - made picking up and making off easy ... :)

Probably completely un-nescersary but, I always put a light line over the cleat once the loop was in place - the intention was to stop the loop from coming off the cleat - although I'm not sure how it would ...
 
fireball said:
We always used a shackled loop in the (backup) chain to drop around the cleat - to protect the deck against rust spots I used some old cycle inner tube to sheath the loop of the chain first.
We had a loop spliced into the main line to drop around the other cleat too - made picking up and making off easy ... :)

Probably completely un-nescersary but, I always put a light line over the cleat once the loop was in place - the intention was to stop the loop from coming off the cleat - although I'm not sure how it would ...
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Some scope for confusion here in what is meant by figure of 8- ing a chain. I wouldn't lay chain over itself like you would rope on a cleat, that's asking for a snarlup.
I have a mooring cleat with two splayed upright horns. The chain has a shackled loop at the end which is laid in a single figure of 8 over the horns, then locked down with the line to the pick up buoy.
 
I'm moored nearly next door to you, I was admiring your Jaguar yesterday from our inflatable as I was wrestling with rusty shackles on our mooring. I'm a complete novice so this is in no way advice, just what I've done or experienced over the last year at Thornham. Last year I just moored using the tatty old bit of rope that was left on the buoy and had no problems, my boat's very lightweight and wiggles about a lot. Now that I've had a year to think about it I realise this was a bit daft so asked the marina for advice, they said to use chain BUT when I bought the boat I was warned of the wiggling and there is a large repair where a mooring chain had sawn down the side and she filled with water, so I've cobbled together 1 metre of chain with a heavy 1 metre rope strop then I've got last years tried and tested bit of rope clipped onto the eye where the trailer winch goes as a back up. I think there is less wear to the mooring gear because you spend less time afloat. We love Thornham, they've looked after us really well, we probably wouldn't still be boat owners without the support they've given us, I hope you enjoy it there too!
 
We love Thornham, they've looked after us really well, we probably wouldn't still be boat owners without the support they've given us, I hope you enjoy it there too![/QUOTE]

Cheers, we've had no issues at all with Thornham. They are very welcoming and run a professional marina (unlike Liverpool Marina that we left last November!). I was very pleased when one of the lads gave us a hand as we moved from the deep pool to our mooring a few weeks ago.

As it happens it was quite a job getting onto our mooring as there was a bit of a blow going on, and the barge moored next to us was directly in line with our required up wind approach. Managed to pick up the buoy on the sixth attempt. I think it was on the fourth attempt my son managed to drop the boat hook! Luckily a passing motor boat retrieved it for us. Then again it was the first time we had needed to pick up a mooring since 2012, that's our excuse anyway.

Best Regards,

Bill
 
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