Mooring systems for yachts

Mooring systems for yachts

As well as for the pontoons’ anchorage systems, the site conditions and the marina’s requirement are the determining factors for a proper design of the boat mooring systems. Modern marinas usually adopt fingers because of their superior features and the fact that they allow reducing the width of the manoeuvring channels compared to other systems, all of which means lower running costs. Alternatively, especially in the Mediterranean, med moorings are widely used and they include the provision of mooring lines made of chains and ropes which are secured to deadweights on the seabed. In the upper Adriatic the most common system are mooring dolphins, which are wooden or steel piles driven into the seabed and equipped with vertical sliding devices in correspondence with the bow which the boat is moored to with ropes. Astern the vessels are fastened to mooring bollards, cleats or rings fixed to the pontoon or the pier. Since 1979 Ingemar has installed med-moorings for mega yacht up to 80m, fingers up to 32m long and mooring piles in hot deep galvanised steel or wood for pleasure boats.