Nowadays it's amazing how fast new mooring sites with rings have them damaged
and how quickly the armco at these sites also gets bent and battered. I assume
it is due to lots of big heavy boats passing too fast causing poorly tied and
fendered boats to jerk and bang around.
Such is the speed to size and shape of passing boats that even with springs
we have to tighten our (loosened by passing boats) ropes quite often and, to
reduce the banging to a not bothering me level we run up to 6 blue fenders
twixt boat and bank.
Having said that on the Thames one large passing trip boat (doing around 3
times the legal speed limit) was running with a bow wave that simply picked our
boat up and chucked against the mooring so hard that one of the fenders
exploded! You just can't win with some of the idiots out there!
Baz Juniper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 31 Mar 2008, at 09:20, David Sullivan wrote:
> We like tying to piling, too. However, our piling hooks are
> decidedly benter now than when we bought them due to boats
> zooming past (and we always tie up very very tight).
We bought our first piling hooks last year - there is not much armco
on the K&A where we our boat lives. The very first time we used them
some youths in a large cruiser zoomed past in the gloaming and bent
one of the hooks and the piling. Kids, eh? Still, I'd finished my
soup by then.
>
> Best of all is tying to rings, but they do seem for
> some reason to cause people to tie their boats up
> with a 20ft gap between them, which I find
> incredibly annoying when I can't tie up because
> people haven't "parked pretty".
I think BW have a standard pitch of 20' for installing rings. As nb
Lark Rise is 40' long, 'parking pretty' can often lead to awkwardness
such as trip hazards for neighbouring boaters or unsatisfactory 90
degree rope angles or, where ground conditions permit, driving spikes
into the bank between rings. None of this, I could add, has ever
caused a problem for us.
Baz
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