Rosalie B. wrote:

I'll ask him when he comes up to bed tonight.

Rosalie, it's 2030 here in NJ. Are you already _in_ bed with your computer?

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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
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"Armond Perretta" wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:

I'll ask him when he comes up to bed tonight.

Rosalie, it's 2030 here in NJ. Are you already _in_ bed with your computer?

After 8:00 pm, I come upstairs and take my medications. Bob watches
TV downstairs, and I watch different stuff upstairs. A certain amount
of separateness is why we've been married for 46 years.

Snap shackles are what he uses. One is at West Marine and one is
advertised in Sail. We can put our own pennant on the mooring ball
using the snap shackle and then attach the boat to that using a
bridle.




grandma Rosalie

Rosalie: Can you provide a part number for the shackle you use? I'd
like to see one that's strong enough to moor your boat. Have you ever
had to cut one free because you couldn't detach it in rough weather?

"Keith" wrote:

Rosalie: Can you provide a part number for the shackle you use? I'd
like to see one that's strong enough to moor your boat. Have you ever
had to cut one free because you couldn't detach it in rough weather?

We don't moor the boat with it - we just grab the mooring ball and
attach a pennant if there isn't one. The snap shackle (on the end of
a pole), just helps with the grabbing part, and I think it can be
rigged so that once you've got it, the pennant - already attached to
the bridle - is automatically attached.

Never had to cut one free, because it isn't on the mooring ball except
when we are getting it.


grandma Rosalie

Rosalie B. wrote:

We don't moor the boat with it - we just grab the mooring ball and
attach a pennant if there isn't one. The snap shackle (on the end of
a pole), just helps with the grabbing part, and I think it can be
rigged so that once you've got it, the pennant - already attached to
the bridle - is automatically attached.

As I understand the term "snap shackle," there is no part readily available
that will do what you suggest, Rosalie. A "snap shackle" is (to me) the
part that is spliced (or tied) into a halyard or sheet and used to secure a
line to a sail, a tackle to a vang rig, etc. I am thinking in particular of
the 1100 and 1200 series that used to be supplied by Nicro.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare

"Armond Perretta" wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:

We don't moor the boat with it - we just grab the mooring ball and
attach a pennant if there isn't one. The snap shackle (on the end of
a pole), just helps with the grabbing part, and I think it can be
rigged so that once you've got it, the pennant - already attached to
the bridle - is automatically attached.

As I understand the term "snap shackle," there is no part readily available
that will do what you suggest, Rosalie. A "snap shackle" is (to me) the
part that is spliced (or tied) into a halyard or sheet and used to secure a
line to a sail, a tackle to a vang rig, etc. I am thinking in particular of
the 1100 and 1200 series that used to be supplied by Nicro.

Well maybe I'm not using the right term, but that's what Bob called
it. It is available from West Marine, and it is advertised in the
magazines as a device for grabbing mooring buoys.

It may be something like this
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...242&storeNum=5


grandma Rosalie

Rosalie B. wrote:

"Armond Perretta" wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:

We don't moor the boat with it - we just grab the mooring ball and
attach a pennant if there isn't one. The snap shackle (on the end of
a pole), just helps with the grabbing part, and I think it can be
rigged so that once you've got it, the pennant - already attached to
the bridle - is automatically attached.

As I understand the term "snap shackle," there is no part readily available
that will do what you suggest, Rosalie. A "snap shackle" is (to me) the
part that is spliced (or tied) into a halyard or sheet and used to secure a
line to a sail, a tackle to a vang rig, etc. I am thinking in particular of
the 1100 and 1200 series that used to be supplied by Nicro.

Well maybe I'm not using the right term, but that's what Bob called
it. It is available from West Marine, and it is advertised in the
magazines as a device for grabbing mooring buoys.

It may be something like this
http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...242&storeNum=5

PS I'm pretty sure ours is a metal one and this one looks like
plastic. Bob bought the pieces and put it on a broomstick - it
doesn't come with a pole. So you can have the pole as long or short
as you need. The bow of our boat is also about 10 feet up above the
water, and I have to lie down on the deck to catch the mooring ball
ring, especially if there is no pennant on it.

grandma Rosalie