Mooring against harbour walls

dylanwinter

dylanwinter

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I am currently in Berwick harbour

against the wall - a long ladder and long ropes bow and stern to cope with the tide

9 fenders

I am getting used to the walls - but the almost constant movement when there is any sort of swell is discombobulating

Berwick

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seahouses

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Craster

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staithes

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sleep better on a mooring or a pontoon though

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dylanwinter said:
I am currently in Berwick harbour

against the wall - a long ladder and long ropes bow and stern to cope with the tide

9 fenders
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Fender boards are a good idea when you get proper north. Sometimes a nice flat wall seems like a distant luxury when all you've got is some pile sheeting, pointy bits of roughly cut stone, a wonky wobbly ladder or a few bits of slimy wood.
 
As someone who keeps his boat against a harbour wall, welcome to the club.

I tie up away from the protruding ladder. Pull the boat up the the ladder when you want to get on or off, otherwise leave it clear.

As already stated, weights in the middle of your warps helps to minimise movement at high tide.

A lot of the harbours up here dry at low tide, so the tidal range your warps have to cope with is not as great. Plus you know where the bottom is so you can set your warps tight at low tide.

Fenders are consumable items.
 
Used a wall for the first time in Peel. I used a bucket of water on the mooring line to keep the stern in closer. Had a problem with the bowsprit scraping the wall. A large round fender close to the bow may have helped, but did not have one, or the room to store it if I did.
 
BlackPig said:
Used a wall for the first time in Peel. I used a bucket of water on the mooring line to keep the stern in closer. Had a problem with the bowsprit scraping the wall. A large round fender close to the bow may have helped, but did not have one, or the room to store it if I did.
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Tie your stern line to the outside cleat to help pull the stern in and keep the bow out from the wall.
 
VicS said:
And the fenders can pick up grit from the wall which then grinds away the gel-coat. :(
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My boat is a little unusual in that the hull - deck joint sticks out like a "flange". That is surrounded all the way around by a large wrap around rubber moulding (replaced last winter)

So the fender just rub against that. So no scuffing of my (painted) hull by dirty fenders.
 
ProDave said:
My boat is a little unusual in that the hull - deck joint sticks out like a "flange". That is surrounded all the way around by a large wrap around rubber moulding (replaced last winter)

So the fender just rub against that. So no scuffing of my (painted) hull by dirty fenders.
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We were stuck in Barfleur for several days a few years ago by a strong N easterly. Even the fishing boats did not go out. The swell coming in and running the length of the wall would have ripped that type of fendering off in no time. Grit from the wall on the ordinary fenders made a bit of amess of the gelcoat.
A Very unpleasnt few days
 
VicS said:
We were stuck in Barfleur for several days a few years ago by a strong N easterly. Even the fishing boats did not go out. The swell coming in and running the length of the wall would have ripped that type of fendering off in no time. Grit from the wall on the ordinary fenders made a bit of amess of the gelcoat.
A Very unpleasnt few days
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Tyres are the answer to that. Not bonny, but very effective, and don't rotate.
 
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