Issues with Bowsprits.

[Colin F]

The majority of new yachts have integral bowsprits to keep the anchor away from the vertical stem.
This design appears to present a problem for yachts that use a mooring which has a pick up bouy which requires the bouy and large soft eye to be brought onboard.

The design does not accommodate the mooring line being held at the bow and If the line was attached to either of the port or starboard cleats the boat would not lie into the wind.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[Laser310]

use a bridle on the mooring, and two bow cleats

it works, unless there is a bobstay or dolphin striker that gets in the way

but even if you choose to lead a single line over the sprit, as long as the line from the eye to the pickup stick and its buoy is long enough, it should work fine; just feed both over the sprit to the cleat, and then take the pickup stick over or under the pulpit.

i prefer the bridle.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

We have one, and use the side mooring cleats regularly for this. They are close enough to the centre line to make no difference. I can’t imagine a standard mono AWB would be worse.

 

[dunedin]

We had this issue, and the mooring cleats were positioned too far aft that they didn’t give a good point for moorings. Plus some mooring ropes were too thick.
Hence we added two of these Osculati fittings as close to the bow as possible Mushroom cleat

Been brilliant. The open shape means can be used as a fairlead for very thick mooring ropes. Generally try to then drop mooring loop over cleat on opposite side of deck.
Sometimes moor with two ropes, one each side into these.

 

[MontyMariner]

fittings as close to the bow as possible Mushroom cleat

Did you fit the cleat with the horns inline with the centre line or at right angles?
To my mind right angles would be more useful but could be a bit more problematic fitting a backing plate.

 

[dunedin]

Did you fit the cleat with the horns inline with the centre line or at right angles?
To my mind right angles would be more useful but could be a bit more problematic fitting a backing plate.

Two, on the toerails, very close to the bows, and parallel to the toerail.
Can therefore be used in two ways - as a robust wide fairlead for mooring ropes, leading towards the existing mooring cleats (also on the toerail but further back) - or as a cleat in its own right.