Mooring Technique
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Mooring - Heavy anchor or weight permanently in position
Mooring Buoy - A buoy fitting with a ring and short tie up line used for mooring a boat to itself ...
Sailboat Moorings
In many areas, sailboats are kept in the water on moorings when not in use. A mooring is in essence a large, heavy anchor (often a concrete or stone block, a large mushroom anchor, or a device bored into underlying rock or mud).
MOORING: An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
MOORING BUOY: A buoy secured to a permanent anchor sunk deeply into the bottom.
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Whether rope is used for anchor line or mooring line, it is an important link between the boater and safety.
Mooring Buoys are white with a blue horizontal band and are found in marinas and other areas where vessels are allowed to anchor.
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mooring
Permanent ground tackle fixed to a buoy that boats can tie to.
motorsailer
A hybrid boat that has sails and powerful engines.
Mooring
A place where a boat can be moored. Usually, a buoy marks the location of a firmly set anchor.
Mooring buoy
A buoy marking the location of a mooring. Usually attached to an anchor by a small pendant.
mooring line - A line used to secure a boat to an anchor, dock, or mooring.
mooring - A place where a boat can be moored. Usually a buoy marks the location of a firmly set anchor.
Mooring with Lugs
Properly used, the lug can be an effective substitute
for a knot. The advantage of this type of fastener is its
resistance to the rubbing that occurs between the cord
and the lug. The technique is simple but must be used ...
Mooring
Permanent anchorage. It consists of a heavy weight (or an anchor), a chain of a certain length, and a buoy. Mooring is also often used for piers, instead of pilings.
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Mooring - an anchor or weight, permanently attached to the sea floor, with a buoy going to the surface, used to hold the boat in a certain area
Nun - a kind of navigational buoy ...
mooring - Any place where ships are kept at anchor; (permanent) ground tackle.
mooring rings - The rings by which the chain is attached to large stones or other weights and used for moorings.
morning watch - The watch from 4 AM to 8 AM ...
Mooring
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The act of docking the ship when in port or the lines used for this.
Mooring Line is a general term to
include both Anchor and Dock Lines
- Dock Lines are used to Moor (connect / fasten) or Make Fast a boat to a dock (dock lines) or a permanent mooring (mooring lines) like a pile, pier, wharf, or buoy field.
Mooring warps should be made ready: cleated at one end, led through the fairleads and back onto deck over the lifelines. Make sure that they are well coiled and, if necessary, can be thrown.
Mooring Buoy
A buoy marking the location of a mooring. Usually attached to an anchor by a small pendant.
Mooring Line ...
mooring
A permanently set anchor or heavy weight with a strong rode connected to a buoy that is picked up by a boat. A boat on a mooring is moored.
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MOORING LINE -A cable or line to tie up a ship.
MORTGAGE- Loan issued against some security
MSB -Maritime Subsidy Board.
Mooring - A place where vessels are kept at anchor, or moored.
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Navigation - The science of guiding a vessel from one place to another safely and efficiently.
MOORING - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
NAUTICAL MILE - One minute of latitude; approximately 6076 feet - about 1/8 longer than the statute mile of 5280 feet.
Mooring
Any arrangement of anchors and rodes that are permanently set.
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mooring bitt
A strong pair of iron, steel or wooden posts on a ship's deck, around which ropes or cables are wound and held fast. (back)
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A mooring line fixed to the bow of the boat and leading aft where it is attached to the dock. This prevents the boat from moving forward in its berth.
Slip- A mooring at dock.
Sloop- a boat with a single mast set forward.
Sound- To measure the depth of water by means of a lead line or echo sounder.
Painter: Mooring line attached to the bow of dinghies
Pan Pan: The second-highest (after "Mayday") priority signal that expresses distress ...
We slipped the mooring lines and streamed into the Port of Palm Beach. The three-cylinder 27-horsepower Yanmar provided plenty of punch and we hurried toward the ocean at more than 6 knots.
Dolphin:
A mooring buoy or spar. A group of piles driven close together and bound with wire cables into a single structure.
Dolphin Striker:
A short spar under the cap of the bowsprit used for holding down a jib boom.
monel: a strong, rust-resistant metal alloy composed of approximately 67 per cent nickel, 28 per cent copper and 5 per cent iron and manganese; commonly used for fastenings, propellers and parts of metal instruments. mooring: an anchor or ...
Mediterranean Mooring Animated GIF. Click On Picture To View Animation.
Spring A mooring rope to prevent a vessel moving fore and aft when tied up alongside a dock , e.g. after spring is attached to the stern of the vessel and led to a bollard on the dock forward of the vessel to prevent it moving astern.
ADRIFT: Loose, not on moorings or towline.
AFT: Toward the rear (stern) of the boat, to move aft is to move back
AGROUND: Touching or fast to the bottom.
AHEAD: In a forward direction.
Cast Off - To let go of a line; to leave a dock or a mooring; to untie or loose a rope or line.
Castaway - A shipwrecked sailor as compared with one who has been marooned or deliberately put ashore.
Bitt A sturdy post mounted on the bow or stern to which anchor or mooring lines may be attached. Bitter end The end of a line. Also the end of the anchor rode attached to the boat.
chocks -- a heavy metal fitting fixed to the deck of a ship through which a line for mooring, towing, or anchor rode is passed
ciguatera -- a severe type of food poisoning caused by eating contaminated fish ...
To let go a line, especially mooring or docking lines; 2. To remove the turns of a line from a cleat; 3. To untie a knot cat 1. The tackle used to hoist the anchor up to the cathead; 2.
Cable-bitt - Large vertical timbers, morticed into the keel, to which anchor and mooring cables were attached.
Cardinal points- The points of North, South, East and West as marked on a compass rose.
BOLLARD - Stout post on wharf or pier for securing mooring lines.
BOOM - Spar used to extend and control foot of fore-and-aft sail.
BOW - The forward part of a vessel. ...
Can - cylinder shaped buoy used for mooring
Capsize - turn upside down or (what increases as your boat gets nicer.)
Cast Iron Genoa- a sail boat's engine
Cavitate- The entry of air into the prop
Chafe - wearing through of a line, sail, etc.
officer(s) on duty in the command area BULKHEAD nautical equivalent of wall BULWARKS fence-like guard along edge of deck BUNK bed, berth BUOY floats of a variety of designs and shapes, usually moored, used as navigational aids, markers for moorings ...
Cast Off - to release lines holding boat to shore or mooring, to release sheets.
Catamaran- A twin hulled boat.
Catboat- - A sailboat rigged with one mast and one sail
Catenary - The sag in a line strung between two points.such as the anchor line.
Cast Off: to release lines holding boat to shore or mooring, to release sheets.
Catboat-: A sailboat rigged with one mast and one sail.
Catenary: The sag in a line strung between two points.such as the anchor line.
STERN PIPES A round or oval casting, or frame, inserted in the bulwark plating at the stern of the vessel through which the mooring hawser or warping lines are passed. Also called Stern Chock.
If grounding is often a cause of the un-safety of the berth, urrent, weak mooring, and many other dangers can render a berth unsafe. SBT Segregated Ballast Tank ...
Adrift - Loose, not on moorings or towline.
Address Field - For sentences in the NMEA 0183 standard, the fixed length field following the beginning sentence delimiter "$" (HEX 24).
PENNANT (sometimes PENDANT): The line by which a boat is made fast to a mooring buoy.
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICE (PFD) - PDF: Official terminology for life jacket. When properly used, the PDF will support a person in the water.
It may also imply that a vessel is not anchored and not under control, therefore goes where the wind and current take her, (loose from moorings, or out of place). Also refers to any gear not fastened down or put away properly.
Move a boat by means of a warp heavier lines (rope or wire) used for mooring, anchoring and to wing. May also be used to indicate moving (warping) a boat into position by pulling on a warp.
BEFORE GETTING a catboat under way from an anchorage, or casting adrift from moorings, the captain should see all gear clear, that the centerboard works easily in its trunk, and that oars, rowlocks and a baler are aboard.
ADRIFT - Loose, not on moorings or towline. AFT - Toward the stern of the boat.
AFT - Toward the stern of the boat.
AGROUND - Touching or fast to the bottom.
AHEAD - In a forward direction.
Hawser: A heavy line or cable used for towing, mooring or anchoring.
Head Sea: A sea which is traveling in the opposite direction to that of the boat.
Head to Wind: Where the boat is pointed directly into the wind, sails luffing.
Here's an important tip: When leaving the dock or mooring, always face forward on the windward side of the boat. The boom and mainsail will be on the opposite side of the boat from the wind.
local stresses are experienced including those caused by water-pressure; forces on sails, masts and rigging; reactions of moving parts of machinery; heavy blows from the sea on side, deck and upper works; anchor, cable and stresses mooring gear, ...
A fitting through which anchor or mooring lines are led. Usually U-shaped to reduce chafe.
Cleat
A fitting to which lines are made fast. The classic cleat to which lines are belayed is approximately anvil-shaped.
Clove Hitch ...
Cast off, steer clear of mooring gear. Do not pass between the Toad and the pick-up buoy, as you may snag the pick-up line. Perhaps it is easiest to start in reverse and back away from the mooring gear.
Maneuvering with the Engine ...
Buoy: A marker used for navigation, mooring, or racing around.
Cam Cleat: A mechanical cleat used to hold a line automatically. It uses two spring-loaded cams (teeth) that come together to clamp the line, which is placed between them.
Similarly, the term for the left side of the boat, port, is derived from the practice of sailors mooring on the left side (i.e., the larboard or loading side) as to prevent the steering boards from being crushed.
AT SEA - This phrase applies to a ship which is free from its moorings and ready to sail.
AUTOMATIC PILOT - An instrument designed to control automatically a vessel's steering gear so that it follows a pre-determined track through the water.
Boatman
Person who attends to the mooring and unmooring of vessels.
Bollard
Post, fixed to a quay or a vessel, for securing mooring ropes.
after bow spring line: A mooring line running aft from a point at or near the bow to shore to control forward and backward motion of a vessel in its berth.
 See also: Boat, Anchor, Line, Point, Deck
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