August 07, 2006
Mooring Your RIB
So you keep your RIB on a mooring – so what’s the best way to secure the mooring pennants so as to not damage the tube?
As with tying a RIB to the dock (we’ll cover this in a subsequent posting –stay tuned) you want to avoid anything that can lead to a line chafing the tube. The best way to go about this is to secure the mooring pennant directly to the bow eye.
You can do this very easily with a stainless steel clip or stainless steel karabiner that is clipped through the loop at the end of the mooring pennant and then clipped directly to the bow eye. For a more permanent set up, you can have your local mooring service company splice the mooring clip to the end of the pennant. If your mooring has two lines, make the second line 3’- 4’ longer so that you can drape it over the tube and secure it to the deck cleat. This line is intended only as a safety line and should have no pressure on it. It’s literally draped over the tube and hangs in the water.
This set up works extremely well and makes mooring your boat quick and easy.
You can see the primary mooring line goes directly to the bow eye and the secondary (grayish-blue line) drapes over the tube (note there is no pressure on it)
A mooring clip spliced directly to the pennant.
What Not To Do - Here's an example of the secondary line being too tight - see how all the load is on the line over the tube - You can actually see the line going to the bow eye is slacked.
Posted by ribcraftusa at August 7, 2006 08:47 AM
Comments
I need information on mooring my RIB to a jetty,with a mooring line and jetty bits.
Posted by: Obinna Akobundu at March 4, 2007 11:00 AM
Obinna:
It’s hard to give specific advice without knowing the specifics of the location, however first and foremost you want to insure that you minimize any opportunity for chafing of the tube.
Will the boat be secured to a floating dock along side the jetty or are there simply wooden pilings that you need to tie up to? If either of these are the case, you’ll want to tie your RIB along side the dock using a bow line that goes from the bow eye directly to the dock and a stern line that goes from an aft two eye or the A frame (if you have one) to the dock. Then, I’d recommend using a “spring line” that would go from mid-ships (tie to a lifeline) aft to the dock. This line is only intended to keep the boat from moving fore and aft and should not be taught unless the boat moves forward.
Securing the boat using this method should only be done if the boat will be along side a dock or wooden pilings. If it is going to be against jagged rocks, then another method must be used. I hope this helps.
Fred
Posted by: Fred at March 14, 2007 10:38 AM
