Is this very expensive for a mooring strop? (£600)

Crinan12

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Hi. Does this seem very expensive for a replacement mooring strop - £500 plus vat? The labour was £315 and that materials £178.

It's the 2nd one I've had to get done in 5 years. The latest one was twice the price of the 1st one i had done.

This was what was done :

'Replace 6M multiplait 24mm
strop, bow shackle,mousing
and 6 cable ties. Replace A4
buoy rope and 2 cable ties.'

It just seems a lot, even though i know boatyards aren't cheap.

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Yeah but jimmy green don't fit it for you! Most of the charge is labour. Maybe it's not too bad then. Just got a bit of a shock!!
Those costs didn't include the mooring check either - that was another 150 odd quid.

Nice start to the season 😂
 

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I would usually take a 3' crowbar and 3' stillson and put my own shackle on when I put the boat on the mooring. At least I know it's done properly then! Mooring was generally about the same price in Scotland.
 

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Few quid on a good Splicing Book .... ??

Forgive me for saying this - but I am amazed at what some people will have done and pay for ...........

Must say the best I saw .... bunch of Race boats tied up alongside ... I was one of the Organisers for the overnight berthing ready for next leg next day.
Walking along the quay - I noted a guy head in transom area ... Guy standing on dock watching ... I casually asked him if any problem ...
No No ... managed to get someone to do the job ....
Oh - what job that ?
Pin came out of tiller to rudder stock.
OK ... and the guys made a new pin ... fitting it ?
Oh No - just need to put old pin back in and then secure with clip.

Took guy about 5 mins to just put pin through two matching holes and put a clip through ........

200 euros.

Guy paid.
 

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Few quid on a good Splicing Book .... ??

Forgive me for saying this - but I am amazed at what some people will have done and pay for ...........

Must say the best I saw .... bunch of Race boats tied up alongside ... I was one of the Organisers for the overnight berthing ready for next leg next day.
Walking along the quay - I noted a guy head in transom area ... Guy standing on dock watching ... I casually asked him if any problem ...
No No ... managed to get someone to do the job ....
Oh - what job that ?
Pin came out of tiller to rudder stock.
OK ... and the guys made a new pin ... fitting it ?
Oh No - just need to put old pin back in and then secure with clip.

Took guy about 5 mins to just put pin through two matching holes and put a clip through ........

200 euros.

Guy paid.
My very good friend was the technical guru at a big marina in Greece. A large proportion of his work was bending on sails and taking them off at end of season. Amazed me and him.
 

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Something I'm interested in learning. Any recommendations?

I learnt to splice many years ago as a young lad from my Fathers Admiralty Manuals of Seamanship ... and cont'd when at sea as Deck Officer ....

As to recc'd ? I still have my "The Efficient Deck Hand" by C. H. Wright ...

But that has a lot of other info filling most of the book that has little to do with yachting ... as its the 'bible' for ships Deck Crew / Officers. But its Splicing section covers just about most forms found ...

For a book that is not Splicing - but covers Knots Bends and Hitches ... years ago - I picked up a copy of : "The Knot Book" by Geoffrey Budworth. ISBN : 0-7160-0704-5 ...
 

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Oh I wish that was true, been splicing ropes for years but Octopliat defeated me.
I don't do octo often enough to do it from memory. Have to have the book (actually I think it's the Samson ropes pdf) in front of me.

Three stand, on the other hand... when I was fish farming we had to churn these out by the thousand. I remember seeing that Jimmy Green were charging £3 a splice; at that rate we could have been making about £1k a day each...
 

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I don't do octo often enough to do it from memory. Have to have the book (actually I think it's the Samson ropes pdf) in front of me.
I wouldn't want to give the impression I'm some kind of splicing god, that's what I'd be doing; splicing it with the book in front of me. I find splicing nice new rope quite relaxing.
 

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God. Could have saved a lot of money by buying a strop and doing it myself. Had no idea it would cost so much getting the boatyard to do it.

It's a hard lesson. I will get nothing done without a firm price now.

Once I told an agent to get a garden bush trimmed - thought it would save me turning out and it might be £50 - 100 max. Got a fancy bill for cutting it removing waste wood and clearing the site, etc, etc, etc. £500 bloody quid. Never again. Thing was only a bit of privet.

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