Mooring strops

Lady Campanula

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I noted in Fowey Harbourmaster's office a flyer for services which included making up new mooring strops - at something around £120 each.

I've made up 4 in recent days for my friend's boat. The materials - 20mm braid-on-braid, firehose antichafe, monofilament line for whipping - were mostly all free. I already had fids, etc. but had to buy some galvanised hard eyes.

Nevertheless, I reckon I 'saved' close on £500-worth of beer tokens by making them up myself and fitting them, to a far higher spec than those around me.

[smug] Well pleased I am [/smug]

:rolleyes:
 
Lady Campanula said:
I noted in Fowey Harbourmaster's office a flyer for services which included making up new mooring strops - at something around £120 each.

I've made up 4 in recent days for my friend's boat. The materials - 20mm braid-on-braid, firehose antichafe, monofilament line for whipping - were mostly all free. I already had fids, etc. but had to buy some galvanised hard eyes.

Nevertheless, I reckon I 'saved' close on £500-worth of beer tokens by making them up myself and fitting them, to a far higher spec than those around me.

[smug] Well pleased I am [/smug]

:rolleyes:
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I thought we all made our own strops...
 
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I got ours made up by the Boat Store in Oban - 28mm nylon 3-strand, galvanised hard eye and fire hose anti-chafe - cost £40, which seemed reasonable. I would prefer not to use braid on braid, not stretchy enough IMO.

- W
 
I made my own, £1:50 for the thimble and the rope was in a locker. The rope wasn't new and it was a right illigitimate to open up, but I did it with the aid of a fid, hard work all the same. Loads of rope left if anyone wants one and can keep me in beer 'till it's done.
 
Do you think my 8mm polyprop lorry drivers' cast offs might not be up to the job any more then? I've had about 5 years use out of them, but suspect they have been in use by the previous mooring user for a dozen or so years. :D

However, it is in "the most sheltered spot in N Wales" according to several Pilot Guides. And I have rigged much stronger secondary warps just in case a dead tree comes down the river in a storm surge, missing the 30 boats upstream, & decides to lodge against mine.
 
Searush said:
Do you think my 8mm polyprop lorry drivers' cast offs might not be up to the job any more then? I've had about 5 years use out of them, but suspect they have been in use by the previous mooring user for a dozen or so years. :D

However, it is in "the most sheltered spot in N Wales" according to several Pilot Guides. And I have rigged much stronger secondary warps just in case a dead tree comes down the river in a storm surge, missing the 30 boats upstream, & decides to lodge against mine.
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My dear SeaFlush,

I'm pleased to hear your '8mm polyprop l/d cast offs' are still giving you apparently satisfactory service after all these years. You might even now get what you paid for them, 5 years ago, on Ebay....

If not, I'd be pleased to lend you mine own. I am unlikely to find use for them again soon, unless my twin 20mm b-on-b are somehow overloaded and part. That seems fairly unlikely, given the mooring is protected on three sides by large lumps of Cornwall, and only Devonport Dockyard -to the east - seems in any way threatening. Still and all, I s'pose an aircraft carrier could break free of its moorings in an easterly blow and drag down on me. It's happened thereabouts before, according to a certain Patrick O'Brien.....

As for your commendable habit of fishing dead trees out of the stream, I'm sure your fellow mooring-owners and the local harbourmaster appreciate your sterling efforts to 'tidy up', but I sense your large foredeck stack of winter-fuel logs might be restricting the pleasure you might otherwise gain from your boat.

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Could you not exchange some ( all? ) of your woody foragings for some clean diesel? I'm sure someone would be pleased to help you out.....

:)
 
As the proud & happy owner of a Clearview wood burner,

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I have no problem dealing with dead trees of any size. My chainsaw, wedge, log splitter & axe are ever ready to add to my fuel store. Anyway, salt soaked wood burns with such pretty colours.

As to return on my investment, they came with the mooring & just seemed too grotty to waste. I am a great lover of traditions & enjoy using antique artifacts - especially when they are free.

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alan_d said:
What did you use to seal the join between the brickwork and the hull?
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:D It's all well puttied in, the bricks provide heat insulation (and ballast of course) and the putty stops it falling out in big seas. I do have some trouble persuading the younger crew members that their duties include climbing the chimney with a hand brush & sack tho. It is my intention to add a boiler for steam power as my next winter project and I am constructing a prototype double-acting engine from bean cans at this very moment.

EDIT: BTW, dear Lady C/ Bilbo bogbrush, please don't be alarmed, your thread will be returned to you in due course - and mostly unharmed.
 
Searush said:
:D It's all well puttied in, the bricks provide heat insulation (and ballast of course) and the putty stops it falling out in big seas. I do have some trouble persuading the younger crew members that their duties include climbing the chimney with a hand brush & sack tho. It is my intention to add a boiler for steam power as my next winter project and I am constructing a prototype double-acting engine from bean cans at this very moment.

EDIT: BTW, dear Lady C/ Bilbo bogbrush, please don't be alarmed, your thread will be returned to you in due course - and mostly unharmed.
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No, no, not at all. This much more illuminating than the Fowey ( Foley? ) Follies....

Having just read with mirth and fascination Dick Durham's biography of my favourite East Coast yottie, Mike Peyton, I'm now wondering which berth we should sacrifice for the coal store..... and where to position the coal stove!

Do they have this complication on a Middle-Aged Moody, I wonder?

:)
 
Lady Campanula said:
No, no, not at all. This much more illuminating than the Fowey ( Foley? ) Follies....

Having just read with mirth and fascination Dick Durham's biography of my favourite East Coast yottie, Mike Peyton, I'm now wondering which berth we should sacrifice for the coal store..... and where to position the coal stove!

Do they have this complication on a Middle-Aged Moody, I wonder?

:)
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I wouldn't advise storing coal in any of the berths - I mean that's rather like putting coal in the bath - far too common for yotties. If you don't have a suitable deep lazarette, then I can recommend using the chain locker.

However, as it happens, I do have 2 bags of charcoal in the aft cabin, along with a barrel barbie that provides cooking, heat & a smoker as required.
 
Searush said:
As the proud & happy owner of a Clearview wood burner,

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....I am a great lover of traditions & enjoy using antique artifact. [/IMG]
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Just been peering at Seaplush's pearls of wisdom again - largely in error, for the post-oeneophilic haze is still lingering in the combes and clefts of LC's consciousness - and note the 'antique artefact' shown above.

Now, I had heard certain of the honest and rugged Westerlys described as ' brick-built dunnys', but I had, until now, only considered this description in a metaphoric sense.

I am clearly mistaken, as the photo shows, and find myself wondering whether this heroic monument to personal comfort and individuality is installed in the aft cabin, along with the barn barbecue and sacks of charcoal previously mentioned.

Certainly, that may well explain, at least in part, the reluctance of our good Seaflush's reluctance to stray far from his fireside.

:)
 
You are, as ever, quite correct. You have spotted the one drawback of such traditional comforts, one is bound by duty to tend a wood fire, or it will quickly fade away and leave you cold & bereft. In short, like kids, they go out at the least opportunity & it can be a great deal of trouble to coax them to return.
 
I bow to the wisdom of the ages or, at least, of the aged.

Ruminating as I am wont of a Sunday morning ( displacement activity - or inactivity.... ), I recall I have a very-early-last-century cast steel woodburner stove gathering rust and spiders somewhere at the back of my boatshed (...or polytunnel ). Just the thing for a Westerly potting shed....

There is also the small matter of the several tons of deconstructed ash tree which my local Highways Agency troupe left on the verge for my attention early last Sunday am. That'll keep my cheery little chainsaw busy for many a happy hour - er, day - and my other, mainstream, log fire glowing all through a cold winter.

So I suppose - and here I struggle to form and phrase the words - our dear Seathrush and I may well be 'brothers under the skin', so to speak, in that our loggy fireplaces call a welcome on wet and blustery days, while warm slippers and a hot kettle promise creature comforts while the sudden summer rains rattle on the pane.

'Pass me another toasted crumpet, Miranda...'

:)
 
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