Falmourh Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

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Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

I recall that Falmouth Harbour Commissioners sent me a small diagram that detailed the measurements required for a mooring pennant/pendant. I want to replace mine tomorrow morning but have lost the diagram. Anyone know the recommended lengths based on cleat to bow roller to waterline measurements?

Kev
 
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Assuming you have a support buoy, the diagram doesnt specify any length for the pendant except to say that the complete mooring length ( ie pendant plus riser plus thrash chain) must not exceed 12.2m. If you arent using a support buoy, they say that 9 m of leaded rope is required.

If you are using a support buoy then its your freeboard plus a bit. A bit not a lot since the moorings are near together. I try to keep my support bouy just below my bow.
 
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Re: Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

I don't think the diagram gave any lengths. On a 35 ft AWB in Falmouth I buy 5M of 9.5mm chain, enough to make a good-sized shackled loop to go onto a mooring cleat about 1M back on deck from the bow and down to underneath the support buoy - a plain big sphere with attachment underwater, not a ring-on-top type. I change my chain every year: mostly so i can have fresh galvanised chain on white decks rather than very rusty.

http://www.yachtsnet.co.uk/boats/charter/moored3.jpg shows the result of 5M chain as described. 4M will do but I feel it's a bit tight.
 
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Re: Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

Thanks guys, and yes I only want enough for a loop over the cleat, then the roller, then down to a shackle under the support buoy. :)
 
Re: Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

Little Grebe said:
Slight thread drift, what is the best technique to stop the chain making a mess of your top sides in wind against tide situations?
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I saw someone had cut the bottom off a traffic cone and slid it down the chain! Looked OK but no idea if it worked.
 
Re: Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

Another thread drift.
I spent a night on a mooring in St. Mawes last May. Being used to a lonnng warp (support buoy to bow roller) up here in the "land of few boats" I endured a horrible bouncy, snagging, grinding night. The chop wasn't big but oh, how the boat bounced!

I am so lucky with hectares of space.
 
Re: Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

For several years I used two lengths of 25-30 mm three-strand nylon as mooring pendants with thimbles spliced in at buoy end and spliced loops at boat end, with PVC hose where it went through fairleads. This was to avoid chain ever rubbing on the bows in wind-over-tide situations. I gave that up and went to chain after coming onto the mooring after a few weeks off, and finding both warps almost cut through. They were fine when I'd left the mooring. Either someone had borrowed the mooring and led them over very sharp fittings, or managed to get them both round a prop.
 
Re: Falmouth Harbour - length of mooring pennant/pendant?

Little Grebe said:
Slight thread drift, what is the best technique to stop the chain making a mess of your top sides in wind against tide situations?
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I always bring up the buoy very short, if you have a pointy boat this tends to keep it off the topsides.
Unless your chain is too heavy, pushbike inner tubes work very well. Use them along the chain down to the buoy, new tubes are very cheap now, I have found the black ones last very well.
 
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