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pfduffy
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Initially Posted - 07/18/2012 :  10:50:37  Show Profile
I am considering stopping at a restaurant on the bay that claims to have mooring balls available. I've never moored my boat, so I have a few dumb questions:

1) If they say they have a mooring ball available, do I need anything on my boat to make the connection? (i.e. - do I simply pick up the pennant and make the line fast to a bow cleat?)

2) I will effectively be single handing so my plan was to come along side the mooring ball as slowly as possible. Snag the pennant with a boat hook while in neutral and walk it forward to the bow. Is that how one does this??

3) What questions should I have asked but am too ignorant to realize that I needed to ask it???
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 07/18/2012 :  11:33:39  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
When we pick up a mooring, we always radio in incase they want us to use a specific ball.

So far, every mooring we have used had a line with a loop from the ball.

Then we do much as you describe but we have a special hook that passes a line through and around the mooring loop.

Paul
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 07/18/2012 :  12:17:50  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
The only mooring balls we've picked up did not have the line attached to the ball, only the steel loop. We too use a special tool to to pass the line through the loop. It'd be worth calling to find out if they have the lines which should make it easier to pick up the ball.

We motor up dead slow, nose into the wind, and pick up the ball off the port side (engine's on the starboard, don't want to foul the prop). The tool makes it pretty easy to slip the line through the loop, and then as you said, walk the line up to the bow.

I have never done this solo, so hopefully someone who has will pipe up.
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JohnP
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Response Posted - 07/18/2012 :  12:29:33  Show Profile
I would just coast in neutral at 1 knot up to the pennant, walk forward at the last minute, and grab the pennant with the boat hook.

If you miss, go back & try again.

Don't neglect to add a small line around the fat 1 inch mooring loop on your cleat, or else add your own smaller line through the mooring loop which you can tie to the bow cleat.
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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 07/18/2012 :  15:58:05  Show Profile
Tie a line to your bow cleat, run it aft around everything, sidle up to the ball and reeve the line through the ball (by hand or with a Happy Hooker) and slowly walk forward and cleat it off.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 07/18/2012 :  20:36:22  Show Profile
I use Stu's approach. I pick up the pennant with a boathook and pass the line through. A HappyHooker is nice if you just have a ball without a pennant on a float.
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Sam001
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Response Posted - 07/19/2012 :  05:38:56  Show Profile
and remembrr, there are no stupid questions here!
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JohnP
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Response Posted - 07/19/2012 :  07:09:54  Show Profile
If I had ever picked up a mooring singlehanded, I probably would have quickly re-invented Stu's method. It's such an obviously good idea, and takes the stress out of the manoever!

Happy mooring!
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