[Public-List] Small cleats for on deck for mooring pendant

[Jeffrey Fongemie]

Jay,

"Stem Casting" - the flat plate right at the bow where the toe rails
tie in? You've got a bow chock up there?  My bow chocks are at least a
foot back mounted right on the tow rail.
I think your setup would be better, a more direct pull..and I'm
guessing the boat would "swim" less on the mooring with the pull
closer to the center.

Where are you located? Are you in Maine?

-jeff




Do you have bow chocks on

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Jay Davenport <jay at saildriver.com> wrote:
> I have kept my boat on a mooring for many years, and I had the same issues you mention. I wanted to go to a 3/4" mooring pendant from Hamilton Marine.
>
>   I decided to install a 12" aluminum Schaeffer cleat just to the right of the center of my deck, between and aft of the existing bow chocks (which I had previously moved aft as far as possible on the aluminum stem casting).
>
>   The 12" cleat is lined up directly behind my bow anchor roller. I used a 12" square piece of 1/8" aluminum as a backing plate, and installed it under the forward deck with a thickened epoxy layer between the plate and the fiberglas deck. The cleat is through-bolted through the deck and backing plate.
>
>   The large cleat can accept a mooring line(s), fairly led, from either of the bow chocks, or from the anchor roller. After several years of use, it has worked well, with no negative results.
>
>   Jay Davenport
>   Revolution, A30 #526
>
>
>
>  Jeffrey Fongemie <jeffrey at fongemie.com> wrote:
>   Hey everyone,
>
>  anyone here put their boat on a mooring instead of a dock?
>
>  I need to get setup, and noticed that the two 8 inch cleats on the
>  deck can't fit much more than 1/2 inch line through them. I was
>  hoping to use at least 3/4 inch line with the pendant but there's no
>  way.
>
>  Looks like I'll need bigger cleats, or a bollard. What have others done??
>
>  -jeff
>
>
>
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