Moving our Sealine S24 to the Sea

[Greg2]

I was going to do it that way but over on the Sealine forum one member is rather adamant that that is a very bad idea and the rope will chafe through in no time. He wants me to put 2 lines on the BOUY as the pic below

As others have said, I agree that this is a good solution and eliminates the chafe point where the single rope would go through the eye on the buoy. There is also some built in redundancy in the event that one line fails.

On reflection it is what I should have originally suggested but we usually use swing moorings for short term stays when a single line on two cleats is fine. Long term mooring does make chafe more of an issue is something we took account of when we kept a day sailer on a swing morning for a couple of seasons.
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[Fire99]

I'm not sure if this is helpful but I had a 23ft 70's sailing boat on a swing mooring for a few years on the river Blackwater. My mooring had a very heavy line with a spliced eye going onto the Samson post. There was a plastic sheath on the rub point. Never an issue all the time I was there. I ran a 2nd smaller line through a cleat as an emergency backup.

With my current boat and maybe the same principle would work for yours, I'd probably run the thickest rope that will run through each fairlead at the bow with spliced eyes onto the cleats plus some thin line to ensure the eyes stay attached to the cleats (depending on the size / shape) Plus some plastic tubing at the rub points. Judging by the load rating of quality rope I'm sure that's overkill but it would be peace of mind for me.

 

[Egret]

Think about how you are going to tie and untie the rope through the anchor tube - For leaving the mooring I have a 12mm approx line as final connection on one of the side cleats before unmooring and another laid along the dinghy for pickup with a boathook.

 

[Bigplumbs]

I will be tiring off to 2 cleats one on each side.