How to pick up a double-point mooring?
It is easiest to pick up a double-point mooring if you first rig a spreader line. A float-marked spreader line connects pendants on the forward buoy to those on the aft buoy. Once the spreader line is fetched, both sets of pendants are at hand. Pull up one set of pendants with the spreader line, secure the boat at one end, then walk the spreader line to the other end of the vessel to retrieve and secure the vessel to the other set of pendants. The spreader line should be fashioned long enough to permit making fast the pendants without unrigging the spreader line. If you use a spreader line, it must be rigged with floats to alert other boaters of its presence in your boat’s absence. Exercise care to keep from fouling the boat on the spreader line or pendants.
