Mooring to a buoy
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RichardS
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Ten years sailing around the Adriatic. Thousands of hard plastic or metal mooring buoys ..... ad nauseam. :encouragement:
Richard
awol
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Could be you have found a marketing opportunity for inflatable buoys. So much kinder to gelcoat and sleeping ears.
capnsensible
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Boogaloo. You seemed to think you were being teased with the notion of inflatable mooring buoys. The evidence is that they exist and in numbers.
Anyway, after ten years sailing around the Adriatic arent you getting dizzy?
sailorman
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A sign of the times im afraid
RichardS
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Hi Awol. Do tell us whether your buoy is inflatable ..... because, if it isn't, your shame will haunt the halls of Scuttlebutt forever.
Richard
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RichardS
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A1Sailor
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The only thing wrong would be if the person on the swim platform fell in while motoring astern. The water would suddenly go awfully red.:disgust:
capnsensible
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No, completely different. If you open the links provided you will learn something. Go on, try it, you know you want to.
lw395
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I've had a couple of Norfloat buoys destroyed by sailing schools lassoing.
It's basically a big fender with a rod through it.
There is tide on my mooring and if you don't stop the boat, and are not very good at lassoing, the rope rips the bottom out of the buoy.
Which then sinks when the culprit leaves.
After a lot of agro, I now always leave an old tender on the mooring.
Which is a shame because I used to quite like the idea of someone getting a free visitor mooring when I was elsewhere.
It's basically a big fender with a rod through it.
There is tide on my mooring and if you don't stop the boat, and are not very good at lassoing, the rope rips the bottom out of the buoy.
Which then sinks when the culprit leaves.
After a lot of agro, I now always leave an old tender on the mooring.
Which is a shame because I used to quite like the idea of someone getting a free visitor mooring when I was elsewhere.
RichardS
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All I want is to hear whether Awol and Daydream Believer also have inflatable buoys ..... but I suspect that trail has long since gone cold.
Richard
Stemar
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All I want is to hear whether Awol and Daydream Believer also have inflatable buoys ..... but I suspect that trail has long since gone cold.
Richard
Unless they're metal, the chances are that it is. My Mooring buoy is plastic, with a large plastic eye on the bottom designed to take the weight of the riser. There's a smaller pickup buoy which anyone who needs to is welcome to use if I'm not there and they'll find the mooring chain attached to it. It is NOT designed to be lassooed and, should I see anyone doing so, they'll be invited to buy me a new buoy.
I know it is, or was, the RYA recommended method; I'd guess that the idea was developed when most buoys were much bigger and made of metal, and quite possibly kept long past its use by date because picking up a mooring by threading an eye on the top of the buoy is far more difficult for trainees.
RichardS
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awol
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All I want is to hear whether Awol and Daydream Believer also have inflatable buoys ..... but I suspect that trail has long since gone cold.
Richard
Well if that is all you want, really really want, then who am I to deny you satisfaction?
Someone who doesn"t give a hoot for your wants, that's who.
RichardS
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pyrojames
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If you lasso a bout with a rope riser that passes up through it, the repeated lassoing and pulling the rope round on departure you end in sawing through the rope riser. Please pick them up as they were designed to be.
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That would be very bad.
Mrs FP can just about reach down to the water from the bow with a fully extended boathook. This works well in Newtown Creek so long it’s not too breezy - there are inflatable buoys with smaller buoys attached to the line that you pick up. Putting the stern upwind and drifting down onto the buoy, using the engines to prevent running it over seems to work for us. At least if Mrs FP fell off the bow, I would see that and have a few seconds to get the engines stopped before the red water / fish food / signing up to E-Harmony scenario unfolded.
On a related note, Newtown Creek around buoy No. 16 is now VERY shallow on low springs, as in <1m. There’s also a rather special concrete slab lurking there just beneath the surface. I pointed this out to the NT chap that collects the fees (by jumping in and standing on it), but don’t hold your breath for anything to change any time soon.
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john_morris_uk
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There’s no such thing as an RYA recommended method. There are repeatable methods and shortcuts that end up being taught at lots of Sea Schools but the only thing that I’m interested (when I’m working as an RYA examiner) in is whether something is safe and seamanlike.
If you’re damaging property then it’s not very seamanlike and you’re not assessing a buoys suitability for lassoing.
PS: Our mooring buoy is similar to this one: https://www.gaelforcemarine.co.uk/M...tm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=UnitedKingdom
They’re a lot more expensive than the inflatable ones though.
RupertW
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You've got that the wrong way round. Design the bouy for the way it is likely to be used, which for any sensible person is lassoing as that is simple and effective - after all what other method can be applied going past a bouy at 4 knots and still stop the boat dead within 2 metres?
NormanS
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I hope there's a smiley missing there.