My swinging mooring

Hi,

Just after comments really;

I have moved my boat (32ft 3.5 ton motor boat) down to Poole Harbour
where I have a swinging mooring. Went to it first time on Saturday.

There is a large buoy with a swivel on top which has around 12 feet of
chain attached, then perhaps 12 feet of rope attached to the pickup
buoy. It all looks pretty substantial to me.

However, the advice from the mooring bloke was to attach to the
underside of the buoy. Now, I can see from reading around that the
metal parts inside a buoy may corode and generally not be in as good a
condition as they could be but why, if it's such a good idea to attach
to the underside, didn't the mooring bloke attach the chain and rope
to the underside rather than the top?

I've been out there tonight in a force 5 hanging off the tender
attaching another piece of chain to the bottom of the buoy and I've
brought that onto the boat temporarily in addition to the fixing I
already have to the top.

Is the mooring bloke being over cautious in telling me to tie to the
bottom, even though he tied to the top ?

As the fittings on the top of the buoy are so substantial, is there
anything to be gained by using them but, now I have a chain attached
to the bottom, shortening it and attaching it to the top as well.? The
theory being that if the buoy and its internals pulled apart, my chain
from top to bottom around the side of the buoy would act as a safety
chain.

By the way, looking at what others do, most of them round there seem
to happily tie to the fittings on top of the buoy.

What would you do?

Cheers


Norm


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