Product of the Week: Mooring line tensioner

8:26 AM Sat 5 Mar 2011 GMT

'Mooring line tensioner in action' .

SwissTech is the source of our 'Product of the Week', a mooring line tensioner, introduced this year at the Dusseldorf Boat Show, BOOT. An attempt to fasten a vessel on a mooring line can be quite entertaining for spectators on shore or on neighbouring yachts. The crew on board the arriving yacht pulls and yanks on the wet, slippery mooring line ? but still the yacht is not fastened securely. That is why SwissTech has developed the mooring line tensioner ? a really clever system that makes it easy to haul the mooring line through. Fastening the yacht becomes simple! ...

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by Sail-World Cruising