Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 25, 2007 at 13:27:18 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 24, 2007 at 15:06:40:
Jim Brading's mooring buoy is of the old fashioned type, very seldom seen now, where the buoy floats the end of a coir rope (invariably covered in weed) which is in turn spliced to a length of chain (invariably muddy) which forms the "riser" and is in turn shacked to the ground chain which runs between two anchors, placed up and down tide.
That's how mine still is (half a mile away from the site of Goblin's although it has synthetic rope, not coir.
I don't see anthing wrong with this system. I did try the new fangled system once, but during the winter somebody pinched the buoy and riding chain. They leave old style ones alone.