Mooring to a buoy

[NormanS]

At least all this thread divergence is keeping you off lassoing mooring buoys.

 

[RichardS]

So no go there, see an increase in AIS distance, look to the troposhere. And look at the data - which shows no "only at night", Best stop digging when in a hole...

Still no sign at all about - "so many threads on here about how we can pick up targets at 300, 400, 500 miles away across open sea at night".........Make that up did you??

Hell no. Your beef is clearly with that Haydude fella. Best leave me out of it.

You really need to get the hang of this search stuff. I chose that one thread at random to give you a steer. There are plenty more if you know where to look. :encouragement:

Richard

 

[RichardS]

At least all this thread divergence is keeping you off lassoing mooring buoys.

I didn't even know that GHA was a buoy lassoer ..... for it was he that chose to diverge.

As for me, I've never lassoed a buoy, or a girl or a mustang ..... although I have driven one.

Richard

 

[Sybarite]

An added complication :

https://www.bateaux.com/article/265...ign=newsletter&utm_content=lien-article-image

 

[awol]

They can steal fenders

 

[Graham376]

It certainly never occured to me that lassoing could possibly damage something as substantial as a mooring.

The mooring may be substantial but the eye in a soft buoy isn't designed to take the weight of a boat. I recently had to chase away a 60 ish foot steel boat who had just picked up a mooring laid for a sailing dinghy. If it's not yours or marked for visitors, then leave it alone unless you have permission from the owner.

 

[Bob H]

If you still have the centre rod from the burst bouy I will buy it to replace my corroded one
Bob H

 

[Jungle Jim]

I may regret asking this but here goes:

I have in the past picked up mooring buoys off Cowes (the big orange ones outside the breakwater) for practice. They have a hook eye on top, but we lassoed it each time. When we stopped for half an hour for lunch, we remained on it lassoed, not tied to the hook eye. On our last trip out there was a boat nearby that had done the same thing for their lunchtime stop.

Is this acceptable or should we have done anything different?

(in mitigation I was crew, everyone else on board was vastly more experienced, and I refer you to my signature )

 

[RichardS]

I may regret asking this but here goes:

I have in the past picked up mooring buoys off Cowes (the big orange ones outside the breakwater) for practice. They have a hook eye on top, but we lassoed it each time. When we stopped for half an hour for lunch, we remained on it lassoed, not tied to the hook eye. On our last trip out there was a boat nearby that had done the same thing for their lunchtime stop.

Is this acceptable or should we have done anything different?

(in mitigation I was crew, everyone else on board was vastly more experienced, and I refer you to my signature )

There are buoys with an eye on top, buoys with an eye on the bottom, buoys with a pennant at the top, buoys with a pennant at the bottom. Lassoing for a short time in good weather is not going to do any harm but for a long period and/or in bad weather you need to secure using the correct method for that particular buoy.

Richard

 

[lw395]

If you still have the centre rod from the burst bouy I will buy it to replace my corroded one
Bob H

If that's directed to me, I gave away when I moved house.
However you can make one using a length of threaded rod and two lifting eye nuts. Either stainless or plated steel. Go large.

 

[lw395]

I may regret asking this but here goes:

I have in the past picked up mooring buoys off Cowes (the big orange ones outside the breakwater) for practice. They have a hook eye on top, but we lassoed it each time. When we stopped for half an hour for lunch, we remained on it lassoed, not tied to the hook eye. On our last trip out there was a boat nearby that had done the same thing for their lunchtime stop.

Is this acceptable or should we have done anything different?

(in mitigation I was crew, everyone else on board was vastly more experienced, and I refer you to my signature )

Those are harbour authority moorings, so probably made to withstand the onslaught of the public.

There is however a lot of current there, it's generally stopping a boat from a couple of knots that does damage, not holding it in place for a few hours when it's stopped.