Close call during the storm

kvduff

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Jun 22, 2011
711
Long Island N.Y.
Boat Info
1998 450 Sundancer
Engines
Caterpillar 3126 -420hp
Took my boat off of my dock thinking it would be safer on the mooring. Mooring bridle line snapped !
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If I were you I'd stop tonight and pick up a few lottery tickets. Murphy seems to be on your side at this time.
 
Yikes!
We don't have moorings down here in the south shore sandbox, so I never used one, but that is some scarey stuff.
So, did just having it tied off to a cleat on one side hold the boat enough so that it didn't swing in to other moored boats around it?
 
He should be fine with a single pennant, although I would have chosen a larger line for the pennants (our lines is 5/8"). We have a single pennant on the bow mooring and a single on the stern, but we are in an up river cove. If we were down river in the harbor we would be sporting twin pennants on the bow.

All that being said this is a good example why mooring tackle should be carefully examined each year, and you have to recognize that chain and lines deteriorate faster than just about any other application for them. Some of our dock lines are more than ten years old, but our mooring pennants and chain are less than three.

JVM, the swing would be the same, one pennant, or two.

Henry
 
Did you take your anchor off?
It's the biggest cause of chaffing the mooring lines when the weather is rough.
I keep my boat on a mooring by The Vanderbilt.
Was able to move it to Britannia Friday.
All those boats that broke free wound up on the beach by my mooring.
I m sure mine would have got hit. There was like 18 boats on that beach over the weekend.
A flybridge 2 moorings over sunk. Was probably hit from a boat that broke free.
 
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If I were you I'd stop tonight and pick up a few lottery tickets. Murphy seems to be on your side at this time.

Wait a minute.... My last name is Murphy and I don't win dinky-doo. Let me know how that works out for you.
 
I am directly across the bay from the Vanderbilt, my anchor was on but the break in the mooring line came closer to the mooring ball so I don't think the anchor had the chance to chafe it. I saw quite a few pictures of boats in the bay that washed ashore with the more catastrophic line breaks (thanks to seymours fb page). As far the lines themselves I will certainly have my guy put bigger lines on the bridle for next season. I pay a couple hundred dollars each year to have the mooring dropped/pulled and maintained. I am fairly certain I paid for a new set of lines this year. Will need to check the receipts. Ideally I would have had the boat hauled but I left for Las Vegas on Thursday and couldn't arrange the haul in the time. For the record my luck wasn't any better in Las Vegas!


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Glad your boat is ok.
Seymours was hesitant to take me out. The harbor was fine till you past the boathouse.
He got me out there and we jumped on the boat and the launch stalled.
Had to tie it to my boat and tow it back.
 

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