T&T: B-V mooring

[Rudy and Jill]

> This technical note jogged my aging memory. I had seen
> something similar 
> used locally many years ago. At last I remembered that this
> was an upscaling 
> of the B-V mooring used by fishermen to anchor boats more
> than half a century 
> ago in the storm prone Tappan Zee and Haverstraw Bay area
> of the Hudson 
> River. 

Wow Larry, thanks for sharing this idea. I love hearing about less-than-common ideas, and this is one. Never know when being knowledgeable of a technique like this might come in handy.

To continue on less-than-common ideas, here is one that I found intreging. We were told of it when in Marsh Harbor, Abacos. At one time they laid two large cables, or chains, across the harbor, some distance apart. They referred to them as hurricane chains.

I doubt that they were there to tie to, but instead, I suspect that the boats where anchored between them, so if they dragged, their anchors would catch on the chains. 

Now-a-days, these chains are still there, but being less critical to the populataion's survival, they have been neglected. They are only on the surface in a few places, those places where, ironically, us tourists that know about them, use them to tie to.

In an area where a loss of a boat could be serious, and a loss of many could be disastrous, ingenuity often finds solutions.

It fascinates me to discover simple ideas that work, particularly in light of today's world of higher tech ideas. I'd love to hear of more of them.

Rudy
Briney Bug, Panama City, Fl