2 Steps To Tying Your Boat To A Mooring Buoy (The Quick & Easy Way)
- By: Joseph Simonds
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- Found In: Boating Tips, Fishing Tips, Weekly Newsletter: 12-8-19
When the wind is blowing, it can be a lot harder than it looks to tie your boat to a mooring buoy or ball…
Plus, when you pull up to the mooring buoy, the last thing you want to do is bring that slimy, grassy, barnacley rope on board and tie it to your boat…
In this video, we’ve got Capt. Mark “Hollywood” Johnson of FloridaKeysFunFishing.com to show us the quick and easy way to tie off to a mooring buoy, without bringing the dirty mooring buoy rope on board.
Watch how it’s done below.
Enjoy!
How To Tie Your Boat To A Mooring Buoy [VIDEO]
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When you’re tying off to a mooring buoy
- Slip your dock line through the loop on the mooring buoy rope
- Tie the other end to a second cleat on your boat.
This helps because:
- You don’t need to worry about tying knots with the mooring buoy rope that probably has barnacles and grass on it
- When it’s time to go, all you need to do is untie one knot on your boat and you’re good to go
Have any questions about tying off to a mooring buoy?
Let me know in the comments below.
And if you’re in the keys and want to book a trip with Capt. Johnson’s crew, you can do so at their website FloridaKeysFunFishing.com.
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This looks good and convenient for a visit to a mooring, but if you keep a boat long term on a mooring in a relatively exposed location I am not sure I would trust the line to line connection not to chaff if left unattended. Right?
Where did you tie your line on boat before you put it through bout and tied to cleat?
Good video, the line from the Mooring ball is called a Pendant. We teach that same technique in our USCG Auxiliary Boating Skills & Seamanship course. Using your line through the loop on the pendant also decreases the jerk of the waves on your boat.
Capt. Jim Fogle
USCG Aux.
Public Ed. Officer, St. Petersburg
What do you do when multiple boats want to tie up?
I’m new at this. Where do you find these mooring buoys? Can anyone use them and are there some in Jacksonville, Fl.
Yes, usually they are first come first serve for the public. Usually found on reefs and areas to dive (many in the Keys – not sure about Jax though)
Thanks, after commenting, i did look it up. Haven’t been on a boat in years. Just bought a used one two months ago.
Awesome! What boat did you get?
It’s a 17 footer Bayliner, not really a fishing boat. All I know is the price was right. I have not skipped a weekend yet on this.