mooring rope around keels !!

[tyce]

hi,
my boat is kept on a swinging mooring, the tidal range is 10m so the tide runs hard, the problem is on neaps and with strong wind blowing the opposite direction to the tide the boat sails around the mooring sometimes wrapping the rope around the bilge keels, my worry is if this happens on building tides there aint going to be enougth rope as approx 4metres will be wrapped around the keel.
does any one know a way of preventing this i have tried putting buckets in the water but the windage over comes this, my next idea is having chain to the bouy and then rope to the boat but dont know if this will make any difference.
thanks in anticipation

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[boatless]

I agree with your chain proposal - heavier the better. But, experience tells me that chain wraps even fin keels sometimes.

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[Benbow]

You must stop this happening ! The shortness of the rope is the least of your worries, in a wind against tide of any strength your boat will be pinnned stern to weather and the back of the keel will saw through the warp in minutes.

Chain with a short rope strop or all chain is the solution.

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[LadyInBed]

“my next idea is having chain to the buoy and then rope to the boat”
“tidal range is 10m so the tide runs hard”
What! You haven't got this arrangement already?
How do you sleep at night?


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[SteveA]

I'm also in Cumbria - Walney Channel. Almost all the mooring around here have chain up to the buoy then usually a rope(or two).
The few who try and use rope normally find they then have to find some way of weighting the rope down.



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[longjohnsilver]

Chain, chain and yet more chain! Problem solved!

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[gjeffery]

If you are mooring on a rope riser, it does make me curious as to what you have on the sea bed, and if that is up to a strong running tide. Maybe, the whole system needs consideration?

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[tyce]

hi i should maybe have been clearer, with my current set up, i have 5metres of very heavy chain connected to a very heavy root sunk in soft mud so that bit aint going anywhere, from the chain i have 9 metres of 2 inch thick reading your replys and after popping down to the boat today to give it a looking at on the building tides i think chain to the buoy is the answer
thanks for advice

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[LeonF]

I have a swinging mooring on the Thames. Have chain below the buoy, with a swivel below the inflatable buoy. Another swivel above the 16mm rope which goes through the middle and has two hard eyes at either end. Then two mooring warps onto the upper swivel which go over my bow roller and on to two cleats, one either side. The boat sometimes surged onto the buoy but being inflatable there was no problem, and this a boat which once wrapped the anchor warp around the keel. EYE in Suffolk supplied the inflatable buoy with the rope already in place.

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