Our summer spot, in addition to a boat launch, has a mooring beach.
This summer we have been sailing our beach cat, which is all the sailboat I need. However, it is not all the sailboat the wife and kids and perhaps the dog need. Our lake is a decent size, 100 square miles, there are ocean going ships kicking out decent wakes and its windy. The wife and kids and probably dog miss the shelter, toilet, galley and general comfort of having a bigger boat for day excursions and the odd over night.
No problem, we kept our bigger boat just in case.
So my question. The preferred mooring arrangement on this lake is something similar to a Mediteranean mooring. Permanent concrete anchors with mooring floats to the stern, then a bow line to shore. This keeps the bow in a foot or two of water and eliminates the need for a dinghy. Just wade out into knee deep water and climb aboard. Simple.
I have been looking at the mooring posts my neighbours are using and they appear to be just poles driven into the ground with a sledge or axe.
Is this the best way to approach this? Is there a product I can buy that maybe screws into the ground? Does any one use this style of mooring?
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This summer we have been sailing our beach cat, which is all the sailboat I need. However, it is not all the sailboat the wife and kids and perhaps the dog need. Our lake is a decent size, 100 square miles, there are ocean going ships kicking out decent wakes and its windy. The wife and kids and probably dog miss the shelter, toilet, galley and general comfort of having a bigger boat for day excursions and the odd over night.
No problem, we kept our bigger boat just in case.
So my question. The preferred mooring arrangement on this lake is something similar to a Mediteranean mooring. Permanent concrete anchors with mooring floats to the stern, then a bow line to shore. This keeps the bow in a foot or two of water and eliminates the need for a dinghy. Just wade out into knee deep water and climb aboard. Simple.
I have been looking at the mooring posts my neighbours are using and they appear to be just poles driven into the ground with a sledge or axe.
Is this the best way to approach this? Is there a product I can buy that maybe screws into the ground? Does any one use this style of mooring?
