New Anchor

[markc]

Mark, in your picture your mooring doesn’t look secure. First the rope looks undersized, second (and I could be wrong but..) it looks like a single line threaded through a chain link. The constant movement of the boat could saw this rope in half. Of course it might just be a lunch stop on a nice day?

I agree, the line does look a bit small in the photo - it's 20mm IIRC. It's certainly not going through a link of a chain though! - it's a bridle with a SS eye which is shackled to the ground chain. Obv difficult to see with the the line over it

 

[MedMilo]

Mark, in your picture your mooring doesn’t look secure. First the rope looks undersized, second (and I could be wrong but..) it looks like a single line threaded through a chain link. The constant movement of the boat could saw this rope in half. Of course it might just be a lunch stop on a nice day?

Yes, that’s a good point! Last season when in the Aeolians I tied to a buoy with one main warp (20mm) and a back up of the same size. We had supper, a few bottles of wine (there were nine people on board!) and went to bed. There was a mild swell overnight but nothing that kept anyone awake. Over breakfast, to my amazement I realised we’d broken free of the buoy and were drifting quickly into a buoy field containing about twenty smaller boats! Happily a chap on a rib came to our aid and held us off while I started the engines and motored to a nearby anchorage. Both lines had chafed through - I can only assume that one chaffed through overnight and the back up started to wear through in the early hours, finally giving up as we ate our cornflakes! Anyway, have now had made up a 25mm mooring warp with two 10m lengths of rope but, crucially, 2m of chain spliced into the middle of the two 10m rope lengths, so 22m long in total. Hopefully the chain will be more chafe resistant!