Submitted by quentin.sands on
Another reason why keeping a boat on a trailer is a good choice - it wont blow away. My other boat, Seashell, broke free from her swinging mooring when Arwen blew through. 60 plus other boats on Lake Windermere also succumbed. I was there for the retrieval process; painful to watch her unceremoniously dragged across the rocky bottom but she appears, amazingly, unscathed bar some deep gel coat scratches and down to bare fibreglass in places. I have replaced mooring strops and have given her a run on the engine. It seems I have been lucky, many more written off or heavily damaged
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Storm Arwen and Seashell on the seashore
Submitted by jonathan.knight on
Quentin, that must have been very upsetting to experience. Dare I suggest two lines to the mooring buoy and have you checked the swinging mooring itself. Are you responsible for the mooring or does the authority look after it.
I'm glad it all turned out reasonably well in the circumstances.
Regards Jonathan
Hi Jonathan, I always have
Submitted by quentin.sands on
Hi Jonathan, I always have two mooring strops and the buoy, riser chain and blocks were checked not too long ago. Some moorings dragged considerable distances, mine stayed put. The problem I think might be the sharp ends of the plastic conduit that is supplied with all strops. One theory is that the constant, violent, up and down of the plastic hose banging on the base of the loop has weakened it and eventually cut through it. Ironic that something designed to avoid chafe should cause the fail. Storm Barra is coming through right now and I have everything crossed.
Mooring lines
Submitted by bob.norrish on
Glad there was not too much damage. I have two mooring lines with metal eyes and shackles and a back-up stainless steel chain on my swinging mooring on the Medway.
The two ends of your line
Submitted by jonathan.knight on
The two ends of your line look in perfect if not new condition. I'm pretty sure I would have thought the line perfectly good! I can here Miriam saying '' have you checked it?'' and me saying ofcourse, don't worry!! She is usually right!
Jonathan