Mooring a boat in shallow water near the shore
Submitted by woody on Wed, 2017-11-29 14:58
Hey guys, what's the go with mooring a boat off a beach in shallow water? Taking my Barcrusher up to Warroora next year and don't know whether it's better to use 2 anchors off the bow so it can swing in the wind or go one anchor on the bow and a stern rope back to shore?
Walfootrot
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1 dirty big one for the
1 dirty big one for the moorings with heavy chains and good rope, don't want to wake up and state looking for your boat
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
redfin
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+1 for what walfootrot said
+1 for what walfootrot said make up a tempory mooring decent anchor oversized chain and rope.
ranmar850
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Depends if you want to swim for it
Not familiar with Warroora, apparently there is a relatively sheltered area you can moor? We go to Winderabandi point on Ningaloo station each year, and always leave our boat in the water. launching is a bit problematical at other than low tide, as the beach is very surgy and soft any other time. We use a goodly sized anchor--all relative to size of boat, yours a 615? If your bottom where you intend to moor is deep sand, take a Danforth style of at least and another of chain. You will never shift that. Unless it is just shallow sand over flat rock, anchor won't dig in. Now you need to decide if you want to swim. Running a fore-and aft mooring rig is just not practical on abeach where you get significant surge. We run an endless rope through a pulley attached to the anchor chain--boat is tied to a loop spliced onto that. Put a star picket or something in the beach to hold the other end. Adjust where the boat hangs by untying it from your star picket and pulling on the rope to either pull it in or out. This has worked for us for many years, common way of doing it there. Called a running mooring. Here's a picture of the old boat on it.
woody
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Thanks very much for your
Thanks very much for your help, don't mind swimming for it at all because it will be in April so nice and warm plus its really shallow. . Nice and calm where I'll be going and all sand so should be ok with fore and aft anchor set up hopefully. Yep its a 560C so same size as 615 BC.
RobMeridian
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Have a look at this option
http://www.rapidanchor.com
Pros - very light and strong. If you're at Rotto, or a beach with people on, you can bury it so that no one trips over it.
Worked well for me when I had a Whittley.
Cons - a star picket is cheaper!
ranmar850
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I forgot the star picket one year.
Buried the trailer spare up near high tide mark with a rope tail coming off it. "twas a bit ugly when i dug it up 3 weeks later
i take up a bit of 50mm white PVC pipe ( actaully my beach fishing spike) to drop over it, so if someone trips over it in the dark, no damage should ensue.
ranmar850
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So a 560C is the same as a 615?
That would explain why the 615 (gen2) I spent four longs days on recently felt so bloody small.
woody
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Yep that would be it, being
Yep that would be it, being narrow wouldnt help either. I can only really fish 2-3 people when drifting but that suits me A genuine 6m ally boat like Razerline, AMM, Genesis etc would feel bigger because they are beamier.
Its all a compromise I guess.