How long you planning to moor it there Kev?

Which Island?

At the Aabrolhos Isl's for example Fisheries have a series of public moorings which are serviced / surveyed each year that you could use.

When last there, I put mine on a spare Pro mooring (by arrangement) that had been serviced / surveyed that year, and had no probs.

If you want to set up your own mooring - youd need min 4 anchors, 3 set in a 120 degree star pattern all with chain comming to a centre eye.

Off that eye you run a continuos loop of rope back to an anchor high up on the beach above tideline with a similar eye.

The continuos loop rope has a dropper loop type attachement spliced in:-

You take your mooring float etc from this with mooring line to the boat from below the float. (I'd put a nylon thimball into a eye splice to connect the mooring float line to the dropper loop splice (thru it) if it were me, as this would reduce the wear factor on the dropper loop slice IMHO!)

If you don't know how to splice - my young bloke does a bit of rope splicing and could set up the ropes & thimballs etc for you before you went etc.

It allows you to haul the contninuos loop rope to pull the boat to shore or back out directly on top of the star pattern mooring anchors below, to swing for the night.

It's only a temporary fix for a few days tho...because the splice loops and rope thru eyes etc wear pretty damn quick in a bad blow - it is NOT the sort of thing you use for months at a time IMHO without inspecting for signs of wear often.... but for a weeks stay it might be worth the trouble to set it up!

Think of the extra ropes and line you have to carry - the time to set it up right - the tidal range and depths / distance involved...it really only works well where the drop off from the beach is pretty steep.

Places like shark bay where you go out 250 meters and the drop is 1 inch...it won't work well at, because you need so much rope (both ways) and your boat grounds long before it reaches shore - so your gonna get wet anyway wading out to where it grounds..

In the scenario you desribe tho - two anchors at least out front, with one on the beach is better than just one out front..IMHO

Theres other methods involving scuba tanks and compressed air lances and burried h pattern I beam steel girders, or engine blocks filled with lead that you bury in the sand - all of which are pretty much permanent installations.

Cheers & good luck!

Pisctor, non solum piscator" - "A fisherman, not just a catcher of fish"

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Just a thought big kev if u dont want to get wet, get a small blow up boat and use your rear rope as a pulley to pull yourself out to your vessel.
Cheers bolts.

Thanks for your idea's fellas,I thought about the endless rope idea but needed more input.The blow up dingy is a great idea uninflated would'nt take up too much room.I'm planning on staying two nights on Long Island which is aprox 40km west of Onslow,it has a sheltered bay and good stretch of beach.Two boats,as its too far to travel alone.Thanks again for your info, Cheers.

Toys R us have 2 man inflatables for $10 , with a pump if your interested .

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Strap yourself in , and feel the GGGGG's

Thanks Mav I'm going down to Perth end of this month so I'll pick one up, Thanks for the tip, Cheers.

Cheers Mitch I'm sold looks like Inflatable is the way to go.Oars are'nt a problem because I'll use the rear anchor rope anchored to the beach to pull myself along. Many thanks.