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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Jul 27,2004
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A word about mooring and nose rings.<br /><br />We had Jemima nose up on the beach but every time some yobbo roared past forty feet away in his 400 hp yoboyacht with six screaming kids on rings behind she ground on the sand. The owners of the campground offered us an anchor for a $20 deposit so we thought we’d try it. The Anchor turned up on a mini tractor. It turned out to be a 5 Gal pale filled with concrete with a loop of rebar out of the top. It weighed about 80 lbs. We rolled it on to a lilo (air bed) and the kids walked it out till I said stop. The water was about 6 ft deep so it needed to be 24 ft at least from where I wanted the nose of the plane. Actually it was more like 40 ft, that’s not as far as it sounds. I had forty foot of yellow nylon line, 3/8 I think, breaking strain is 190 lbs.<br /><br />Next day the wind blew up out of the South. There is a 7K fetch down the lake and the waves were rolling in 18” high with white tops on all of them. I was worried about the nose ring so I went out and tried the line. It only took a twenty to thirty pound pull to draw Jemima up. I did not have any chain so I kept a careful eye on her. That evening it blew up some more, the forecast was for thirty mile an hour winds so I waded out and ran a extra rope from the anchor with a loose bridle to the strut attach points, just in case. She sat well, the only problem was the waves slamming up under the elevator. I wound some rope around the stick and pulled it back to the bulkhead till the elevator was level. The slamming stopped except for the occasional big wave which caught the stabilizer.<br /><br />I had a little think about the nose ring: Mine is just a ½” hardware store job (that is the shank material is ½” dia.) It is set through a couple of shaped bits of 2 x 4 behind the fibre glass a good 5” down from the top. I rough shaped the wood and bedded it in with bondo, then I put three or four washers under the back up nut, that way they won’t distort and pull into the wood. I reckon you could pull a thousand pounds on it safely. <br /><br />If you are putting out a mooring you should have at least 100lbs on a soft bottom and the pay should be three to four times the depth, The important part is actually the chain. For those of you who are not sailors maybe I should explain.<br /><br />If you just have rope your plane will pull in jerks as the waves lift the front, the rope snaps taught and the ring is ‘snubbed’ with a real jerk. (If the line is shorter there is a lifting action as well which causes the anchor to drag.) At least a third of the pay ( the length of the line) should be chain, the heavier the better. As the bow lifts the chain is progressively lifted off the sea floor acting as a remarkable efficient shock absorber. (In the case of a real anchor it also causes the anchor to be pulled flat along the seabed so that the anchor digs itself further in.)<br /><br />The next day was calm again, Christine said she'd meet me in Oliver, about 20K. I taxied out, there wasn't enough breeze to worry about direction and there were't so many boats either. I wound her up and got on step, suddenly we were were being slammed around, I really had no idea the hidden wakes would cause so much upset. We struggled into the air early and hung on until the speed picked up. Coming back I landed well down the lake in the US part, then quickly turned and scuttled back into Canada. Strange world, all those boaters using about 25% of the lake just 'cos there is an imaginary line across it. Wierd.
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Dan Nickens - Jul 27,2004
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Weird...and unfortunate.
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John Robert Dunlop - Jul 27,2004
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Chris, I would think that moored to a bouy would relieve the chain requirement as the bouy would provide the same shock absorbing as the chain catenary. <br /><br />If I ever have to seriously anchor my SeaRey I think I'll hang my 10 lb 'bubba' lead tail weight on the anchor rode about 10-15 feet from the anchor..
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Jul 27,2004
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John<br />If the bouy has chain, otherwise not much. Your weight would help but it is definitely the progressive action of chain that does the job.
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Frank A. Carr - Jul 29,2004
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Boaters in the Chesapeake use a scope of 7:1, that is 7' of anchor rode for every 1 foot of water depth. Chain also helps to keep the tug on the anchor level to the sea floor so that a 'real' anchor will dig in more rather than drag. A 5 pound Danforth anchor might be good enough for non-stormy conditions.
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Chris Vernon-Jarvis - Jul 30,2004
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Did I mention we did the 400 hp yobbothing a couple of times too, even got the 11 and 13 year olds up on a wake board and lots of screaming in a rubber ring. Huge fun.
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