Be very careful with snubbers. When I worked at West we had to replace
several sets of mooring lines that had been eaten by WM snubbers. Those
were not a good design at all.
Jim Watts
Paradigm Shift
C&C 35 Mk III
Victoria, BC
On 14 March 2015 at 15:42, Eric Cahn via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
wrote:
> {{{>You want to size mooring lines so there is some give, just like an
> anchor
> > line. Bigger is not necessarily better.
> >
> > In a large storm, stagger maybe 5 lines of different length so that one
> > takes over as another breaks. They will break in big storms.
> >
> > I never saw a mooring cleat pull out. Lines always went first. A main
> > culprit was an unusually large wave that would pull the bow up and snap a
> > perfectly good, protected line. Make the lines as long as they can be in
> a
> > storm.
> >
> > I was on a helix mooring. The anchors always held, but a weak point was
> > the line from the helix to the mooring. They need to be replaced every
> few
> > years or after particularly bad storms like hurricanes.}}}
>
> What about using line snubbers for the main pennants and a safety backup
> set to the maximum stretch of the snubber. This seems it would help the
> shock loads on the pennants AND on the mooring line. Perhaps even run a
> couple of snubbers in series to really reduce shock. Just an idea. Could
> it work?
>
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