Docking (or mooring maneuvers) are maneuvers for for stabilizing and anchoring a boat in a point, usually in a port, roadsteads or at a short distance from the coast. This is possible thanks to specific elements employed to stabilize the boat.
How do you make a docking?
The most common docking is the ” wharfage mooring” which is carried ou tby whip to cleats and rings. Docking is possible only in the “ordinary” sea and not in the deep-sea. Here, it is necessary to anchor with longer chains.
What are the docking maneuvers?
- decelerate during the approach
- introduce the craft with the side to be fixed for the parking
- hook (or fix) the boat at stable structures.
Some docking techniques
Wharfage mooring can be made in different ways. The ropes/cables (fixed by the ground linesmen) are pulled on board by hand (or by machine).
The rope on shrinking will approach. Here are some ways to docking:
- to moor alongside the quay
- boat parallel to the quay
- six cables that ensure the boat to quay
- to moor stern on
- boat placed perpendicular to the quay
- bow out maintained by bower anchors, moorings or buoys
- stern assured with twisted wires to ground cleats and with stern fairleads to the board cleats.
- to moor bow on
- boat placed perpendicular to the quay
- stern out maintained by bower anchors, moorings or buoys
- bow assured with twisted wires to ground cleats and with bow fairleads to the board cleats
Marine hardware to use
Essential during these maneuvers are the mooring shock absorbers. What is their function? Mooring shock absorbers are elastic bodies that are attached to the boat by a rope or chain. These items are used to protect the mooring from wave energy, thus ensuring greater comfort on board. These mooring shock absorbers can be in rubber, thermoplastic material or stainless steel (see art. 8161). Mooring shock absorbers are often used in connectors that safety chains (see here). Also cleats and D-shackles are useful items during docking manoeuvres. Here you can find them in stainless steel AISI 316/A4 (see cleats) (see D-shackles).
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