[Public-List] mooring pendants

[The Rochets]

Hi Gord,

I like your idea of additional lines on a mooring. I have been using  
a single line connected to the mooring rope with a swivel shackle  
(the float is also connected to that same shackle with 3 ft of small  
chain). I find that the swivel is the weakest point in the mooring.  
If I add one or two more pendants to the same swivel shackle, they  
will rotate together and will not get entangled, but if the swivel  
breaks, all my lines will go at the same time and the boat with them.

How do you connect your three lines to your mooring so that you have  
real back-ups without your lines getting entangled?

Thank you.

Bernard
#608 Sunswept

Original message:
>  If you make one line a little longer than the other you will have  
> a system
> where for everyday mooring one will do all the work, the other not  
> taking
> any load unless there are extraordinary conditions.  If the working  
> one
> chafes through and breaks; you have essentially a new one un- 
> chaffed and
> ready to go.
>
> When I kept our old boat on a mooring I always added a third line  
> longer
> than the other two to the set-up on Labour Day so that through the  
> fall when
> gales are more likely I had a plan C should the first two lines fail.
>
> Hope that makes some sort of sense and helps you make your own  
> choices.
>
> Gord #426 Surprise
>
>

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