Mooring from shore - what is it called

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Can anyone tell me what the name is for the system of having a small boat tied to a style of mooring where you can pull in the rope from the shore to get the boat to the beach? Have seen them around, and am keen to try to use one for a a heavy dinghy that I use

As far as if can see it needs a weight both at the boat and on he shore and a loop of rope going around

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afterpegassus said:
The illustration shows a boat tied fore and aft on the endless rope. In this part of the world we tend to tie from the stem only and allow the boat to swing.
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That's what we do on the similar moorings alongside Hayling Bridge in Chichester Harbour; as long as I remember and a fair bit before that they were always called Whip Moorings here.

Here's an old postcard I found of the whip moorings in question;
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I my younger days, we called them "triplines" and the secret was to have two stakes about a meter apart at shore end so that it kept the line from tangling. On the seaward end, we used to have a mooring buoy which supported the pulley. They take a wee bit of setting up and be prepared to have to borrow another dingy to untangle them until you get it right.

Might be worth thinking of some automatic bilge pump so that the boat does not fill with rainwater (which is not good for a wooden boat)

something like this http://www.foxsonline.com/acatalog/...R100008.html?gclid=CM28gLX6l74CFYoSwwodMx0Arw

Have fun.
 
Jcorstorphine said:
I my younger days, we called them "triplines" and the secret was to have two stakes about a meter apart at shore end so that it kept the line from tangling. On the seaward end, we used to have a mooring buoy which supported the pulley. They take a wee bit of setting up and be prepared to have to borrow another dingy to untangle them until you get it right.

Might be worth thinking of some automatic bilge pump so that the boat does not fill with rainwater (which is not good for a wooden boat)


something like this http://www.foxsonline.com/acatalog/...R100008.html?gclid=CM28gLX6l74CFYoSwwodMx0Arw

Have fun.
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Keeping the ropes apart is sound advice as once a twist is run in or both get wrapped in weed, then heaving in can be a real scunner.
 
We use running moorings in Stonehaven harbour on the east coast, and have never had problems with the lines tangling, apart from one time when a minor storm brought in an old branch which got tangled round and jammed the seaward pulley. I had to wait until low tide to free it up and lost a good day's boating!

+1 to a bilge pump. Ours nearly filled up one year from an easterly swell lapping bit by bit over the engine well overnight. It hasn't happened again since installing a bilge pump, touch wood.
 
rbmatthews said:
We use running moorings in Stonehaven harbour on the east coast, and have never had problems with the lines tangling, apart from one time when a minor storm brought in an old branch which got tangled round and jammed the seaward pulley. I had to wait until low tide to free it up and lost a good day's boating!
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Understand your comment about lines not tangling in a Harbour but our triplines were on an exposed sealoch with miles of fetch to build up waves and it did reduce the number of times we could not bring the boat ashore as the line did get thrashed about a bit.

The other point I did not make is that I am sure we used rope which sank to prevent it being cut by anyone cutting accross in an outboard. (But it is was a very long time ago ~ 50 years ish)
 
I've been thinking about something like this - would this require permission and registration with Crown Estates or whatever, the way a permanent swinging mooring does?
 
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