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Kip C
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Initially Posted - 05/22/2003 : 15:42:38

Hi Everyone,

In a couple of weeks, we will finally get our new (to us) boat in the water. It will be kept at a bouy on Brookville Lake in Indiana.
What tecniques and or equipment have people used to secure the boat to the mooring. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Kip Casada

'90 C25 #6021
SR/WK

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 05/22/2003 : 19:23:56

Kip,

I went to SailNet and searched on "Mooring" and this is what it found.

http://www.sailnet.com/collections/articles/index.cfm?article_criteria=mooring

<img src="http://www.catalina25-250.org/c25sm.gif" border=0>Don Lucier<img src="http://www.catalina25-250.org/c25sm.gif" border=0>
<img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b2d904b3127cce9f7cd9ffdf1d0000003010" border=0>
North Star SR/FK

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MikeM
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Response Posted - 05/23/2003 : 09:03:08

My boat is also on a mooring. Here are some tips that might not be covered elsewhere that I have learned from trial & error.

- buy a pick-up bouy so you can grab the mooring penants
- to avoid the penants wrapping around the mooring in slack wind, wrap them around each other a few times, creating a few twists- not too much though just enough to avoid a window for the mooring to enter when there is no wind (others attach a small flotation device to keep the mooring lines above water, that also works)
- when attaching the penants to the boat, use a shortline to secure the penants to the cleats, wrapping over the mooring lines so they will not jump and locking down on teh cleat.

I prefer not to motor to my mooring and consider it a real skill to come up to a mooring under sail. Practice makes perfect but its worth the satisfaction when you learn how to stop the boat at will. Good luck.

Mike M
Marblehead, MA
C25 #1212

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deastburn
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Response Posted - 05/23/2003 : 23:59:01

Mike M.'s advice is right on. I would add he following:

I have two mooring pennants, one two feet loger than the other. It is there only as a safety, and should never be fully taut when the boat swings on its mooring. I use fire hose as chafing gear (the pennant runs through the fire hose, which is tied to the pennant to keep it in place.

Mike's advice about the safety tied over the cleat to keep the pennant from jumping off the cleat cannot be overemphasized. I have seen three very nice (large) sailboats beached and destroyed in my home port in the past four years because they jumped off their pennants in the middle of the night in a sudden blow.

I also agree about sailing onto the mooring--but practice first in a not-too-crowded harbor. The C25 is very easy to maneuver, and you never know when that motor is going to choose not to start, and that becomes an essential skill to have mastered.

A pickup buouy is indispensable for single handing, especially if your mooring is exposed to winds.

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OJ
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Response Posted - 05/24/2003 : 10:41:41

Two best things we did:

Placed foam pipe insulation around the mooring line keeping it afloat

Installed a swivel on top of the mooring ball to reduce wear and tear on the mooring line

Good luck

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