the secret to a good night sleep when attached to a Buoy

[AIDY]

so what is the secret..... spent two nights this week attached to a buoy and the boat bangs all night, no tide so to speak as were in the med.

as with modern boats these days main cabin is at the bow, so you hear the constant bang all night.

 

[Bobc]

Tell the people in the back cabin to pack-in shagging

 

[DannyB]

If the boat is rockin, don't bother knockin!

 

[Daydream believer]

When you do know the secret let us all know. I know a couple of women who would be more than happy to spend all night attached to a boy
But moving aft just means you get a bit of slapping on the stern. Hmm !!!!back to those 2 women again

 

[Daydream believer]

Try sleeping in a clinker boat. Then you would have something to moan about

 

[doug748]

With a boat like this:

http://www.yachtworld.co.uk/boats/1969/Nicholson-43-2546209/Netherlands#.VAgtNul0xpM

..hoist the buoy out of the water, use the anchor winch if you have to. As a bonus you will find the stern will not slap either.

 

[Poignard]

Rig the spinnaker pole as a temporary bowsprit. Lead an additional line from the buoy, via the 'bowsprit' outboard end and back to a foredeck cleat. Adjust this line so that the buoy cannot touch the hull.

nb this line does not replace the main mooring rope, which performs its usual function when the wind/tide is pushing the boat away from the buoy.

All perfectly described and illustrated in "Cruising Under Sail" by Eric Hiscock.

 

[BrianH]

I too have been driven to distraction and lack of sleep by the clonking of a buoy on the topsides during the night, especially on moorings that have any tide as between islands where the stream reverses on the change and we all swing around the buoy to face an opposite direction.

My solution to date has been a stout line from the furthest pulpit point to the buoy top attachment and hauled tight so that it is almost suspended, which keeps the buoy well away from the hull and the boat pivots around it. This may not work so well with a modern plumb bow but with my oldie, with plenty of overhang, it solves the problem.

 

[fisherman]

Either hang back on a long strop or pick the buoy up. When the Lizard Lifeboat was moored in the open while the new house was built they used a webbing strop from the top of the buoy that was only just slack. I suggested to the cox that it might be suffering from the constant snubbing in a bit of flop, they grudgingly went to look, it was nearly worn through. It was replaced with a very long strop.

 

[Seajet]

If there's any tide a drogue - or strong bucket - streamed from the stern should do the trick; but beware it will increase the swinging circle, and don't make the drogue line too long or some clown will motor over it...

If really no tide, I suppose those fender mats would be one answer.

On my rigid tender to cover some bolt heads I fitted computer mouse mats stuck on with araldite which works well, they're a bit small for a cruiser but it may be worth a try hanging a mouse mat or two by the bows ?

Edit; how about rubber car mats ?

 

[Fantasie 19]

If really no tide, I suppose those fender mats would be one answer.

Small kedge anchor to pull you away from the buoy?

 

[Melleman]

There is a trick.

Take a stiff hose,like those the cable to internet is pulled in to your house thrue.


Put your rope thru this hose and the stiffnes in it will hold it away from the bow.

 

[Bobc]

There is another trick.

Use your anchor instead.

 

[Melleman]

There is another trick.

Use your anchor instead.

But then what knot or softshackel to use to "le" snubber

 

[johnalison]

Rig the spinnaker pole as a temporary bowsprit. Lead an additional line from the buoy, via the 'bowsprit' outboard end and back to a foredeck cleat. Adjust this line so that the buoy cannot touch the hull.

nb this line does not replace the main mooring rope, which performs its usual function when the wind/tide is pushing the boat away from the buoy.

All perfectly described and illustrated in "Cruising Under Sail" by Eric Hiscock.

It doesn't work. All that happens is that the pole rattles around all night instead. I tried it once, in St Mary's, only to be told by the harbourmaster in the morning that I could have tied a stern line to another buoy. There were fewer boats in ose days.

Hauling the buoy up can work, and seems to be the usual thing in some places, such as New Grimsby Sound. One reason why older raked bows can be better.

 

[onesea]

There is a trick.

Take a stiff hose,like those the cable to internet is pulled in to your house thrue.

Put your rope thru this hose and the stiffnes in it will hold it away from the bow.

That does help keep the buoy of Ive tried that on passed boats, present boat there is no point in any weather the noise is drowwned out by...

a bit of slapping on the stern.

A bit of slapping a bit of slapping and you complain I have one of those IOR racing sterns to extend the waterline length. It can sound like a team of sumo wrestlers have jumped on the stern and are having a wrestling match...

Makes even a clinker boat sound like a relaxing tickle....

 

[DanTribe]

It's probably best to use a lasso round the boy.
That brings total peace, and everyones happy.

 

[Giblets]

Spent last Saturday night on one of the visitor moorings off Seaview and had the worst night afloat ever with the constant slapping on the sugar scoop, the buoy banging on the bow and the rolling when a big ship went by! Retreated into Bembridge for the Sunday night albeit for £33 overnight but slept very well.

 

[prv]

A bit of slapping a bit of slapping and you complain I have one of those IOR racing sterns to extend the waterline length.

Not sure mine's an IOR stern, just a 90s AWB sugarscoop, but it certainly has the same problem. Some gentle slapping I can cope with, but when we anchored in Osborne Bay last year the thumping was overpowering even in the saloon.

Compared to Kindred Spirit's V-shaped short counter stern it's quite a major handicap.

Pete

 

[Seajet]

I'm pretty sure I've seen some sort of ' anti slap ' device to rig on / just under sugar scoops & similar sterns ?

As for a hose to feed the mooring strop through and hold off the buoy - assuming one is not using a pickup buoy - ' food grade ' clear tubing from chandlers ( or cheaper at caravan shops ) does this, often used on permanent nylon mooring strops.

In tidal waters the only time my boat contacts the buoy is light airs, wind over tide at and around slack water; even then a towed drogue works for me.