Hi everyone.
i have scored myself a mooring standing pole and I am unsure of how to rig it up.
Its a 2m piece of conduit with a weight and one end and a float about 1foot above the weight and designed to have what I believe is a rope coming from the mooring up through the conduit tube and perhaps looped at the top and fed back down...?
is this correct and could someone guide me in the right direction?
happy to submit some photos if that helps.
Thanks
On mine the mooring line is just attached at the bottom. It's not designed to take any load, just pick up the mooring line from the water. Yours might be different.
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Hi everyone.
i have scored myself a mooring standing pole and I am unsure of how to rig it up.
Its a 2m piece of conduit with a weight and one end and a float about 1foot above the weight and designed to have what I believe is a rope coming from the mooring up through the conduit tube and perhaps looped at the top and fed back down...?
is this correct and could someone guide me in the right direction?
happy to submit some photos if that helps.
Thanks
Mine is similar, with a length of 14mm three strand about twice the length of the conduit up the centre shackled to the mooring loop. The other end has a loop spliced in large enough to fit the mooring cleat (the splice prevents the line disappearing down the conduit) which enables me to hook up to the mooring by myself if conditions are a little difficult, then sort out the correct mooring attachment as the boat settles down.
Mine is the same as Bob's. I don't have the shackle at the bottom, just a spliced length of line (almost the length of the pole) that can be attached to the main mooring line. The loop at the top is so you can use a boot hook to grab it if it is too far away to reach.
A small tip, put some white reflective tape on the pole so it can be seen at night. The loop length at the bottom means that it be a bit of a distance from your mooring bouy when sitting on a breeze.
If you put the mooring bouy over the pole so it sits on top of the float the pole will stay upright.
You pull the mooring line and the bouy up together.. With the mooring bouy in the water and a bit
of a current running it tends to pull the pole over so it lies flat on the water.
Thanks for all the replies guys. Very helpful.
I hadn't actually seen one setup before. I just ended up with the home made item and thought it would be helpful when trying to grab the mooring buoy in stronger winds.
What I ended up doing was feed 16mm rope up the conduit with a tied off lopp at the top, and on the bottom end left out 1.5m and tied it to a carabiner.
The idea is to leave the pole on the deck and clip it to the mooring line when we leave for the day.
I do like the idea above of feeding the mooring buoy down the pole to keep it afloat a little better.
Thanks for the help guys.
