A mundane question...

Alden68 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

Can anyone recommend the best method and line for tying a pick-up buoy to the mooring line? i.e closer to the spliced loop or closer to the ball?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hesper · #2 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

I tie mine to the spliced loop. If you tie it near the ball, you'll have to lift the chain.

sailortjk1 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

You want to attach your pick up bouy through the eyes of your mooring lines. That way when you return to your can, you simply lift the pick up bouy from the water and your eyes are right there. Drop them over the cleats and your secure. Just be sure to reach under your lifelines and not over them when reaching for the pick up stick. It makes a lot of difference.
Also, our pick up bouy has a small snap shackle attached to it and it is stored on deck when we are not on the boat, than attached to the mooring line through the eyes of the mooring lines when we leave. It is never permenently tied or attached to the mooring lines.

Alden68 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

Thank you for your responses.

Do you bottom paint the buoy?

tigerregis · #5 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

Blue Trinidad for buoys. BJ Offshore for guys.

camaraderie · #6 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

Tiger...ahhh you wanna edit that last sentence?

tigerregis · #7 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

Tie the line to your belt and go for Davy Jones. Edit? NO. This guy is a joke.
Keep the Faith, I know I pull some Portuguese fed-up joke lines once in a while, but this guy is over on gmariners? pulling their chains under Wilbur.

camaraderie · #8 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

Gmariners? don't know that one...wanna give a link?

sailingfool · #9 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007

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Originally Posted by Alden68

Can anyone recommend the best method and line for tying a pick-up buoy to the mooring line? i.e closer to the spliced loop or closer to the ball?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Our mooring cleats are on the foredeck about four feet aft from the bow. I tie the pickup bouy line to the middle of the pennant for two reasons. First at the point you have the bouy onboard, you have enough pennant length in hand to make the tieup. Secondly on our boat the pennants need to go through eyelets in the bow fitting/toerail, you would need to remove the pickup bouy line from the loops if tied to them.

FWIW, I have been having my pennants made without the loops, again for two reasons. The first is that each time you secure the line the chafe point will be different. If your boat is moored in an area subject to storm wave action, protection against chafe should be the top consideration for all. (Everytime we have a good northeaster in MA we find out who hasn't been paying attention to this detail, as their boat ends up on the beach (lucky!) or rocks (unlucky!), but careless either way). With fixed loops, the pennants chafe at the same spot, until they fail or you replace them regularly. Use the best chafe gear you can get, I buy leather strips and sew them on. Secondly, you secure the pennant with a cleat hitch which will not come undone - you don't need to put a second line over the loop to secure it.

I tie the pickup bouy line to the pennant with a rolling hitch.

tigerregis · #10 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007

Cam, sorry, it is rec.boats.cruising over at google. Now he is taking over from PH on ''head matters" after insulting her. There is a link posted to his website in one of the posts. Really, it is VC Offshore, my mistake.