Endless Mooring for Small Boat

[jkskye]

I wonder if anyone could tell me what stuff I would need to put together an endless mooring.

The boat is a taskforce Q18 & the shore is shallow sloping sand.

 

[Scillypete]

A coil of 10mm potline (or maybe 12mm for your boat) should be fine, thats what I have been using, just changed it this year after five years use.

If you can get one of the large ceramic insulators, normally used by electrical co's for pylons etc (not the really big ones) these are ideal to use at the bottom end instead of a block as a block will jam regularly.

 

[smeaks]

what is an endless mooring?

 

[jkskye]

great idea, thanks for that

 

[jkskye]

its a loop of rope from the shore to the sea. so you can can pull your boat in from / out to your mooring from the shore

 

[richardabeattie]

An enndless mooring is just a rope lead out from the shore, through a ring on a mooring weight and back to the shore. You can then tie the boat's painter to it and haul the boat out to its mooring whilst standing on shore. But it's not really suitable for long term use unless it's checked regularly. I agree about not using any kind of pulley - I use a stainless steel ring at the outer end - it needs to be smooth as there will be quite lot of friction. Leave enough slck to allow for the tide! Be prepared for the boatt o take the ground anywhere in quite a large circle as when the tide goes out the system goes slack. I tie a couple of long bits of wood athwartships under the keel because my drying out area is stony.

 

[tabernacleman]

I used an endless mooring for the tender some years ago, however while in Brittainy recently was very impressed with a technique I witness several times for getting smallish boats back into deep water after the crew had stepped ashore, it entailed the boats anchor being balanced on the foredeck with sufficient anchor rode for the depth where the boat would end up, after the owner had pushed it away from the bank or jetty, when the boat arrived at desired position, the owner pulls on the rope which he has had the presence of mind to tie to the anchor crown. this of course needs to be long enough for the boats unmanned journey, the anchor tumble off the fordeck, owner makes fast the line to a ring or spike, and thats it, no pullies etc. when the boat is needed you just pull in the anchor and the boat follows, not used the method myself but looked pretty simple. Anyone seen it used in UK /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[pampas]

Used frequently here on the Fal by many.

 

[Scillypete]

Same method used in Scilly for years

 

[fisherman]

The endless mooring is an outhaul, I always use a block (with no swivel) make sure you attach the painter where the splice is so you don't run the splice through it. Best is an eye splice in each end, sheet bend together leaving a long stray with an eye. If you have two points a few feet apart for the onshore end to run round it stops the rope twisting up in tide.

'Tripping off', with a small variation for an adverse breeze: take the fuel line off the outboard and leave it going astern to get the boat off the shore.