What are the parts of a mooring ?
Newport Harbor mooring specifications (onshore, offshore) call for metal ballast which may be comprised of old, clean engine blocks, train wheels, or other robust scrap metal. A length of heavy steel bottom chain is passed through and shackled to the ballast. Bottom chain attaches to a lighter weight length of steel top chain, and the top chain connects to a float where mooring pendants, or mooring lines, are made fast. Pendants must be made of nylon or dacron line, eye-spliced with thimbles, shackled and seized to the chain or float. These lines are finished with unthimbled eyes for making up to (cleats, bitts or Sampson posts on) the vessel. Between required biannual servicing visits, regular inspection for wear and chafe of mooring pendants, integrity of seizing wire (search for Monel wire), and maintaining pendant chafing gear, are the mooring permit holder’s responsibilities. If a swivel is used, it is very smart to regularly inspect the cotter pin which secures the swivel’s clevi
