making a loooong fender

[grafozz]

I am looking for ideas on making a floating pipe/fender/pontoon to catch the boat in the usual strong crosswind on my mooring
the picture shows the line of fenders which are secured to a block a long way forward and up to the quay
The problem with this is the line gets forced under the boat with the crosswind and gets caught in the rudder .

Any ideas for a solution ? something to "catch " the boat when mooring up ?

 

[Seajet]

I can only suggest decent fenders on your boat; better to put out too many, then later remove the ones not doing anything useful.

When coming into the berth have a spring line with a bowline on the end led over the guardrails - outside the shrouds - from the bow or ideally midships cleat and handy led aft to the cockpit.

With this spring line you can drop the bowline loop over a mooring cleat then motor forwards alongside the pontoon with the tiller towards it ( lashed if no-one is handy to hold it ) , keeping the boat static while you get the berthing lines on.

 

[grafozz]

I can only suggest decent fenders on your boat; better to put out too many, then later remove the ones not doing anything useful.

When coming into the berth have a spring line with a bowline on the end led over the guardrails - outside the shrouds - from the bow or ideally midships cleat and handy led aft to the cockpit.

With this spring line you can drop the bowline loop over a mooring cleat then motor forwards alongside the pontoon with the tiller towards it ( lashed if no-one is handy to hold it ) , keeping the boat static while you get the berthing lines on.

thanks , this is a stern - to mooring you can,t see the mooring buoy , ahead , in the photo .

 

[{151760}]

Could you attach a couple of light lines from the fender line to the stanchions to keep it in place?

 

[Gwylan]

I am looking for ideas on making a floating pipe/fender/pontoon to catch the boat in the usual strong crosswind on my mooring
the picture shows the line of fenders which are secured to a block a long way forward and up to the quay
The problem with this is the line gets forced under the boat with the crosswind and gets caught in the rudder .

Any ideas for a solution ? something to "catch " the boat when mooring up ?[/QUOTEfor

Not pretty, but it works

Length of 25mm or similar water, drain pipe. 5 or 6 lengths of pipe insulation or those long floats for kids in swimming pools, expanded, closed cell foam.
Arrange the foam around the pipe and use cable ties to attach. Do this at 50th intervals. Drill a hole in each end of the pipe. Pass a length of string, rope along the length of the pipe, pass through the drilled hole and tie off to stop the fender wandering. Adjust so you have a suitable length of line at either end of the Fender to attach to boat. Block the ends of the tube if the fender is going to be near the water line, or it will fill and not be as buoyant.

Install so that it is at the appropriate height and make off to best placed stanchion. I made one about 1.5 m long for our floating mooring where we do not always end up in the same position relative to the mooring pile. Worked well all last winter and looks good for another season.

 

[William_H]

It seems to me (and I may have it all wrong) that you need a catching rope stretchd from the mooring buoy to the jetty. if the prevailing winds are blowing you to port ie towards the camera then the rope would be on the port side. You need to kep this rope at the surface either with buoys as you already have or a contiuous poly pipe. The line would hopefully force the boat into the correct location at the jetty as you back in.
If you get cross winds from both directions then you need to have 2 guide ropes with buoys one for each side. They would need to have their own moorings to either side so that you can back in between them. Unfortunately if you have big tidal change the guide ropes moored to the bottom will mean at low water guide ropes will be very loose and tight at high water. The further out the moorings for these guide ropes the less affected by tides but not so tight so possibly not able to force the boat into location.
It might need a fair but of trial and error to get guide ropes tight enough.
We have the same situation in our marina except that there are posts either side at the bow for mooring to and ideal to attach a tight guide rope. good luck olewill

 

[Len Ingalls]

Perhaps try this. Run a bow line from fwd deck cleat,outside of stanchions,etc, & tie it with a slip knot to a handy place adjacent to cockpit.
Motor up wind to mooring buoy far enough to gaff the pendant.
Slip bow line thru pendant eye & re-tie bow line to something substantial (winch,etc) at cockpit.
You are now moored & boat will drift backwards,while pendant eye slides up bow line .
You can now power the stern around so it is where you want it at dock. Gaff your ready made line from dock & drop it over stern cleat.
Go up on bow & drop pendant eye over mooring cleat.
No floating stuff needed.

Cheers / Len

 

[Daydream believer]

I can only suggest decent fenders on your boat; better to put out too many, then later remove the ones not doing anything useful.

When coming into the berth have a spring line with a bowline on the end led over the guardrails - outside the shrouds - from the bow or ideally midships cleat and handy led aft to the cockpit.

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Personally I would lead it UNDER the guardrail

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Why not have larger fenders, preferably the spherical type? They would be more difficult to submerge.

Of course I might have misunderstood your problem, in which case kindly ignore.

 

[grafozz]

thanks , all .
the boat is caught by the fendered line that is already there it just needs to be more substantial to stop it
going under the boat and jamming on the port rudder .
I found some 70mm plastic mains water pipe locally and am thinking about feeding the line through 12 metres
of that up as high as the quay with 2x fenders forward to keep it afloat before the line goes down to the ground block ?
That should catch it !