Hi Paul
My boat lives on a mooring, the setup is a chock on each side and a
cleat aft of each. I would not use the anchor roller for mooring lines.
3/4" pendants are overkill, I'm running 3/4 and am probably 12000 lbs.
I had an Aloha 27, I used 5/8 pendants for it, similar size to the C&C 27.
If you single hand your boat I'd also recommend getting a mast buoy -
fastened to one pendant it makes retrieval very easy. I have a ring on
one pendant that lets me unclip it when the boat is moored.
Graham Collins
Secret Plans
C&C 35-III #11
On 2015-03-13 9:28 PM, Paul Baker via CnC-List wrote:
So, I am going to be moving my boat from a nice, safe and secluded
slip, to a mooring buoy out in the harbour. Yes, the mooring is big
enough, yes I will be using at least 2 unequal pendants of good
quality (probably at least 3/4"), and yes I will be using chafe guard
where appropriate. Assume also that any hardware would have backing
plates as large as practically possible.
My current deck hardware consists of a central 6" or so cleat, with a
small teak backing plate. An anchor roller of unknown quality and fit
(I have never used it), and a small chock that serves no purpose since
the hawse pipe blocks a fair lead from the cleat to the chock. Deck
is balsa cored glass, toerail is standard C&C, so an aluminum L
section perforated rail bolted though the deck and hull on roughly
3-4" intervals. Basically, whatever I do is going to require a fair
amount of work. Given this, I can't decide on the best route.
1. Try to find some way of putting a cleat on the rail at each side of
the bow - this will likely involve fabricating some sort of mounting
block, bolting the cleat to that, and then through the rail/deck.
2. Fit some chocks (which will likely involve cutting the vertical
part of the L section off) and replace the central cleat with a bigger
one, with a bigger backing plate.
3. Fit a bow eye and moor to that - this might involve running a temp
3rd mooring line to the deck cleat and then releasing the shackle(s)
from the dinghy, I haven't got on the boat to see if it's feasible
from there.
4. Something else I haven't thought of yet.
I'm thinking that option 3 might actually be the better route -
doesn't involve disturbing the toerail at all, and while not the most
convenient, it might have some advantages, namely much less chance of
chafe, and a lower attachment point gives me better scope, plus I'd
only have to drill two holes through glass.
I kind of need to make a decision in the next day or three so that I
can get the bits and get going, boat will need to be on the mooring
for April 1st, so I have two weekends after this one.
Mooring will be in Tsehum Harbour, in Sidney, BC. No hurricanes here,
40kts is the highest gust speed recorded in Sidney in the last 10 years.
What would my fellow C&C'ers suggest?
Cheers,
Paul
Orange Crush
1974 C&C27 MkII
Sidney, BC
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