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Mfuller
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 Posted - 06 Oct 2014 : 23:49:38
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Hi Guys,
Slightly off topic but it's about mooring my Norman, so.. :)
The river where I moor my boat is subject to flooding. As I speak the river is on the way up. My worry is about mooring the boat correctly to best avoid problems as the water rises and falls.
Rising is not such an issue. If I leave enough slack there is not usually an issue. The problem is when the water drops after it has risen. The boat will sometimes float over the bank, and then I worry it will strand on the bank and tip over. This has happened before to our smaller boat.
The second worry with falling water is when the river goes the other way and empties. The worry with this is that the boat will end up on the silt and tip over.
So.. Anyone have any experience of this kind of issue and the best way to limit the dangers?
Any help appreciated
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 Oct 2014 : 09:05:39
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Set some long scaffold poles into the bank against your mooring so it's always over the river, if outboard or outdrive lift the leg and sitting on the mud will cause no harm at all as long as theres nothing nasty in it.
As you said leave long lines fore and aft to shore but out at an angle and also run some front to back (called springs)and it will stop the boat ranging back and forth along the bank, even fairly tight longs lines will give lots of scope for rise and fall whereas loose short lines give very little.
I have some long plastic mains water piping that clips to my handrails and runs a foot below the water line for bigger range moorings and those with an overhang which work well, and they collapse down to fit in the engine bay for stowage too.
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Deano
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 Oct 2014 : 23:47:14
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Scaffold poles are the way to go. My boat is moored in a marina that floods. Sometimes up to 5 foot above normal.
We attach the mooring ropes to 3 inch sections of plastic gas pipe, slipped over the scaffold poles, so as the levels go up, the boat is free to slide up the poles, mooring ropes and all. When the levels come back down, the boat is over the water as it is not able to go over the bank due to the three scaffold poles and the mooring lines simply slide back down.
It is a system that we have been using without a problem for over 40 years.
If you need further clarification as to how it works... please ask...
Dean - Boating on the Great Ouse.
Freeman 32 "Liberty"
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Knighty
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08 Oct 2014 : 12:57:44
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As above, when I had my Norman I replaced the 5ft wooden posts and with scaffold poles and sliding rings, you can just make out the one ring on port side at rear. I'm on the Avon and can go up 3-4ft overnight with heavy rain. Wouldn't have survived the 15ft in 2007 but that was a freak one.
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Mfuller
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Posted - 09 Oct 2014 : 08:25:25
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| Ok guys, thanks for the input. Poles certainly seem the way to go. Where the hell do you get them from? |
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df
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Oct 2014 : 17:31:54
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Where the hell do you get them from?
Make sure the builder isn't looking when you take them down.....
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Knighty
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Oct 2014 : 20:40:33
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| Usually a scaffold firm around, I popped in and drove out with three 15ft poles and clamps etc for around £30. They did stick out of the sunroof a bit though but I only live about a mile away on a back road. |
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Mooring on a flood river.
