I want to make a mooring...

[capercanuck]

Can anyone advise me of how to make a mooring?<br /><br />The place I'm staying at this summer has no docking facilities but I can put my own mooring in. <br /><br />I've never put one in before. I know I need a buoy and rope...beyond this I don't know what to use or how to place the anchor. I've heard of people using everything from old engine blocks to large concrete blocks. I can't use the engine block for ecological reasons, and I don't know how to get the concrete block to it's eventual resting place.<br /><br />Also, the boat is a 2452 bayliner and weighs about 5500 lbs. What size mooring would work?<br /><br />Thanks!

 

[tommays]

Re: I want to make a mooring...

<br /><br /><br /> http://www.annesanchors.com/ <br /><br />you have a pretty big boat and depending on the worst conditions it has to not wonder away in will make a BIG difference in what you drop in the water<br /><br />the local people should no what works best up there<br /><br /><br />i kept a 24 ft in a harbor in orient point long island and it had to be BIG because every summer storm from the south really tore up the place and i have seen many boats drag small ground tackel to the beach<br /><br />i needed a 250# and ALL chain to keep a 24 ft 2700 # sailboat safe<br /><br />tommays

 

[Bondo]

Re: I want to make a mooring...

Just down the coast from you, in Maine,.......<br /><br />500lb. Blocks of Granite are Pretty Popular for mooring blocks.........<br /><br />And,.. Chain,.... Lot's of Chain,....... That's what'll keep your boat from Tearing itself Up...........

 

[capercanuck]

Re: I want to make a mooring...

How did you get the granite to it's final resting place? We've got lots of that stuff up here.<br /><br />Thanks..<br /><br />And Tommaysss...<br /><br />You use the "Anne's Anchor"? Works well?<br /><br />Thanks

 

[tommays]

Re: I want to make a mooring...

i used a mushroom that looked like it down here moorings are very controled<br /><br />my harbor was BAD in any northeaster and my boat allways stayed put <br /><br /> its not like you can do anything once the weather gets bad and it turns out to be a littel small <br /><br />you have to use the right stuff and there droped in a controled grid because thers a LOT of boats and you cant have them banging into each other<br /><br />and you cant put in garbage and let your boat take out 6 other boats in a storm <br /><br />i allways found out what the people who had been there a long time were doing and did what they did <br /><br />tommays

 

[Chris_Crafter]

Re: I want to make a mooring...

I made my mooring out of a steel 30 gal drum.I filled it with concrete and a few rocks.I drilled some holes for re-rod to pass through.I had a heavy truck spring U bolt set through the top for the chain to attach.The bottom of the lake is soft sand and the re-rod in a X through the drum really has dug into the sand.My boat is 1800lbs.I figured the mooring is around 260 lbs.I had all the supplies so all I had to buy was the bags of quickcrete.I put it on our raft(float)and when I had it in the desired location myself and a friend pushed it overboard.The only downside is a few times the chain has wrapped around the drum.Usually when the water is like glass and there is no tension on the chain.

 

[oceansbreeze]

Re: I want to make a mooring...

Not to hijack the thread, btu this belongs here sorta..... I've tinkered with the idea of a moorign of my own. The rest of my city either trailers, or rents a slip for the season..... however my grandmother owns 2 waterfront properties about 2 minute drive from my house. How convenient.<br /><br />The water is VERY shallow, I can walk maybe 200 feet before it's deep enough for the boat. There's no tide. The beach is 100% exposed to the lake, and receives the unsheltered force of every wave and whitecap imagineable.<br /><br />I would say worst case waves - 1.5 to 2 feet high. NOT vry often, average wave would be a foot, and there are al ot of calm days..... and of course, wake from other passing boats...<br /><br />What is considered "too much" for a mooring?<br /><br />I can easily drop a 250 pound weight out there with chain, and a buoy, etc..... then swmi out.. My only concern is how much can the boat take? (there are no other boats moored anywhere nearby - nor have I ever truly seen a boat on a mooring) thanks.