Howbto tie tender to swing mooring

[JuBaggy]

Hi.
We are on a swing mooring. Old boat used a bridle. This boat is on a single strop.
How does everyone attach there tender to to strop/mooring to make it easy to get the pick up bouy. If tender is attached to the strop makes hooking the mooring bouy/rope near on impossible as have the weight of the mooring and the tender to pull
Any ideas everyone
Thanks

 

[Sea Change]

Add a pickup line and buoy to the mooring, and either leave it in the dinghy, or have it long enough to trail astern of the dinghy.

 

[neil_s]

I tie off the tender's painter to the strop, making sure there is enough length to get the strop secured on board while the tender painter knot is just outside the stem head fitting. The tender still shears about getting in the way, though!

 

[Bodach na mara]

Maybe change your mooring configuration if you have "the weight of the mooring" to pull in.
I have to admit that I no longer moor my boat as several years ago I found that old age and declining strength were restricting our sailing, but when we did moor we never had much weight pull in when picking up the mooring. The configuration in common use was of a heavy ground chain between sinkers with about 20 feet of 25 mm chain attached. The 18 mm nylon riser was attached to the top of this chain and a size A4 buoy was attached to it at a point where a little of the 25 mm chain was lifted at low water springs. Thus there was no "weight" in the strop. A pickup buoy was attached to the end of the strop by a few feet of rope, approximately 12 mm stuff.

Now for the confessions bit. I never worked out a way of dealing with dinghy that didn't get snarled up at least once per season. I tried tying the dinghy to the pickup buoy with enough painter to lie clear astern when I got the buoy on the foredeck. Some clown motored between the dinghy and pickup, cut the painter and I arrived back from a cruise late at night in foul weather to find the dinghy on the beach. We had to moor up and spend the night aboard until in the morning I could inflate the rubber duck, which I had carefully deflated and stowed away. From that time on I used a shorter painter and put up with the dinghy bumping alongside for a few minutes while I hooked on the strop. That worked well most of the time but the tide tended to cause the painter to get wound round the riser below the A4 buoy. On one occasion I had to moor to someone else's mooring until the (naturally) strong wind went down in the evening and I could row over in rubber duck and sort out the knitting.

 

[Cerebus]

My riser chain used to attach to base of mooring buoy and I had a swivel installed. Chain then went onto deck of boat to secure it.

Top of buoy had rope with snubber and pick up buoy. That actually held boat to mooring buoy (chain was in case rope failed). Never any tangles.

Tender was tied to top of mooring buoy with length long enough that I could motor up to pick up buoy and secure even if single handed.

 

[Porthandbuoy]

I tie my 6' pram dinghy, which has 6' of floating line as a painter, to the pick-up buoy, which has about 6' of floating line to the mooring pennant, which sinks. I arrived back at my mooring today to find the whole lot; pennant, pick-up line and dinghy painter entirely wrapped around the riser so tight the pick-up buoy was submerged and the bow of my little dinghy almost pulled under.
I had to anchor nearby and row over with the inflatable to unwind everything. I've had that mooring for 10 years (serviced annually) and this was the worst I've come home to.
Why does it happen? I'd only been gone 3 days, so 6 tides weren't enough to wind everything up so tight. Must be a combination of shifting winds and tides I suppose. I don't think there's much you can do to prevent it.

 

[William_H]

My mooring consists of a large buoy with swivel chain under neath and strops on top to boat. (buoy stays in water) 3 strops one longish goes to cleat on deck. The primary load goes to the winching eye half way down the bow. The final one goes around the bow rail and back on itself. I have on occasions found one disconnected shackle stolen or other problems so have been grateful to have a back up even after one loss.
So on arrival at boat 2 attachments are removed (from sitting in the dinghy) leaving one strop on deck. I then tie the dinghy painter about 6 metres long to the eye of the deck strop. (via the same path as the strop) So on departure strop is simply lifted off cleat and let go.
On return I have a large target of about 6 metres of floating rope to pick at at any point with boat hook. Dinghy does bang the hull a bit sometimes. Patch paint work every winter. Al;l works well but I always have a crew to pick up the mooring. ol'will

 

[dansaskip]

A similar set up to William _H.
My mooring buoy has a strop with eye splice attached to the top of the mooring buoy - mooring buoy stays in water so no weight of mooring to lift. I fitted a pickup bouy with floating line to the strop to make pickup easier.
I tie my dinghies painter to the eye of the strop leaving enough length in that to be able to pick up the pickup buoy and strop without interfering with the dinghy. Yes sometimes the painter get tangled around the mooring buoy but there is just about always enough slack to get moored up and then sort out any tangle afterwards.

 

[Rappey]

I tie my dingy to the pickup buoy. Gives me a 6ft rope horizontal between the mooring buoy and dingy making it very easy to grab with boat hook on return, hook mooring loop over bow cleat and dingy happily sits along side waiting to be untied and moved to back of boat.

 

[oldbloke]

I tie my dingy to the pickup buoy. Gives me a 6ft rope horizontal between the mooring buoy and dingy making it very easy to grab with boat hook on return, hook mooring loop over bow cleat and dingy happily sits along side waiting to be untied and moved to back of boat.

Having a lightweight boat that's prone to being blown away I use the painter and dinghy like the arrestor cable on an aircraft carrier.

 

[Rappey]

I use the painter and dinghy like the arrestor cable on an aircraft carrier.

I did the same with my 20ft open day sailor with no engine. The keel acted as the hook, snagging the rope and helping me to grab anything to stop the boat