skyflyer
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The original owner of my boat kept it in a marina from new, so there is no fairlead at the bow for a mooring strop, which I need as I will be keeping the boat on a swinging mooring. The strop is planned to be 20mm anchor plait. (5 tonne 32ft boat)
Last year i used 10mm chain supplied with the mooring on the pickup buoy. It was a right pain as I had to remove anchor every time we moored up and left the boat, as there is only a single bow roller and no room for another.
So the plan is to fit a fairlead close to the bow and run the strop through that.
My concern is that if there is slack in the strop it could easily jump out the fairlead. I can't find ones that take 20mm rope (plus a chafe guard) which have a "reverse slot". Only ones where the slot is parallel to direction of the line.
Any bright ideas?
Last year i used 10mm chain supplied with the mooring on the pickup buoy. It was a right pain as I had to remove anchor every time we moored up and left the boat, as there is only a single bow roller and no room for another.
So the plan is to fit a fairlead close to the bow and run the strop through that.
My concern is that if there is slack in the strop it could easily jump out the fairlead. I can't find ones that take 20mm rope (plus a chafe guard) which have a "reverse slot". Only ones where the slot is parallel to direction of the line.
Any bright ideas?