Swinging vs Marina Moorings
- Thread starter Little Dorrit
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TSB240
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Andy I suggest you actually read my post before continuing to make a reply that ignores the facts that 1 I have pelicans and 2 that I use a boathook wiith a wichard snap hook..........
You really make yourself open to ridicule.
Personally I don't rely on guardwires for stopping me going overboard and prefer a clipped on short safety harness. The last thing on my mind after a mob recovery would be clipping on a pelican hook or lashing back a pretty useless device that probably allowed a MOB in the first place!
You really make yourself open to ridicule.
Personally I don't rely on guardwires for stopping me going overboard and prefer a clipped on short safety harness. The last thing on my mind after a mob recovery would be clipping on a pelican hook or lashing back a pretty useless device that probably allowed a MOB in the first place!
Seajet
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You did not make any of that clear in your reply, sorry I didn't research your family tree in a whole ' Who Do You Think You Are ' production.
As you mention ' clipping ON a pelican hook and ' it allowing a MOB in the first place ' I get the strong idea you don't know what the F*** I'm on about !
Pelican hooks are for guardrails. Clipping the wires onto the pulpit and pushpit eyes - and jolly useful, frankly a life saver whether getting in and out of a tender or recovering a MOB.
I suspect the things you're on about are the simple carabiner type hooks used for safety harnesses up to the 1979 Fastnet disaster.
These can undo themselves as shown in the Fastnet Inquiry, and if the line is spliced on at the wearer end it can drag one down with a sinking boat, as has been sadly proven.
After the '79 Fastnet everyone with a brain adopted double action hooks at both ends, these were originally designed / marketed by Gibb.
I doubt I am the one open to ridicule.
As you mention ' clipping ON a pelican hook and ' it allowing a MOB in the first place ' I get the strong idea you don't know what the F*** I'm on about !
Pelican hooks are for guardrails. Clipping the wires onto the pulpit and pushpit eyes - and jolly useful, frankly a life saver whether getting in and out of a tender or recovering a MOB.
I suspect the things you're on about are the simple carabiner type hooks used for safety harnesses up to the 1979 Fastnet disaster.
These can undo themselves as shown in the Fastnet Inquiry, and if the line is spliced on at the wearer end it can drag one down with a sinking boat, as has been sadly proven.
After the '79 Fastnet everyone with a brain adopted double action hooks at both ends, these were originally designed / marketed by Gibb.
I doubt I am the one open to ridicule.
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ghostlymoron
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I thought this thread was about the pros and cons of swinging moorings. It's morphed into a discussion on pickup techniques and degenerated into a slanging match in which both the participants appear childish.
Little Dorrit
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Brightens up the day though doesn't it.