Noisy moorings

[mick]

Moored recently on one of those heavy duty plastic cylindrical mooring buoys (the ones with the ring on top) we spent a very uncomfortable night due to a combination of heavy swell and no wind, making the buoy bang against the hull the whole night long. Anyone know a way to stop this?

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[[3889]]

I've seen some with a traffic cone, base removed, over the mooring warp, presumably to hold the bouy away from the boat. Alternativly, you can haul/ winch the bouy partly out of the water so its weight makes it hang vertically.
Andy

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[snowleopard]

you could rig a spi pole out over the bows like a bowsprit and pass a line from the end through the eye in the buoy to pull it away from the boat. a common technique with gaffers.

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[Talbot]

a fairly extreme method would be to sell existing boat and buy a catamaran, - absoluelety no problem from this sort of mooring /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[SteveGorst]

Yes I've seen these on the Conwy as well and wondered what on earth they were for. I can't quite see how they can keep the buoy from the boat as the diameter at the bottom isn't wide enough. They may stop the boat banging against the jagged bolts at the top though.

Steve

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[peasea]

Where were you as a matter of interest?

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[Rich_F]

Tie four or five fenders end to end in a ring, and place the ring over the mooring buoy. It really works!

Rich

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[mick]

Brodick Bay

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[alahol2]

Why not just use a longer rope?

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[mick]

Length of rope irrelevant in no-wind situation.

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