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Post by kris on May 4, 2018 16:19:06 GMT
I think carrying the kit to put in my own mooring rings is the way forward. I wondered about making up pitons from old vehicle leaf springs. Use the end bit which already has an eye in it, cut a 10 inch length and grind down the end to a thin tapering wedge and heat treat it for hardness. Whack these into the gaps between the coping stones and tie boat to them. Don't know if it would work and mooring patrol humanoid units may log it and raise an objection. Or a hilti gun with threaded studs. Or SDS drill and inserts. The ideal thing would be drill and put in M12 internally threadef inserts then carry your own eye bolts. That would be excellent. Or spud legs? Or maybe 4 arms which fold out each with a circular rubber pad which can then be clamped down onto the path with an acme thread. If it was done right I reckon that would hold the boat in place. i was thinking of small eye bolts epoxy cemented in. But too small to get a decent rope through, then turn up with a shackle and there you go. It would stop just anybody using them. |
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Post by naughtyfox on May 4, 2018 16:23:41 GMT
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Post by pearley on May 4, 2018 16:26:08 GMT
When we broke down a couple of years ago we had to drag the boat about a mile or so before there was anywhere to hammer in a pin due to the tarmac extending right to the edge stones, wasn't even anything around to tie off temporary to have a look what had gone wrong! Remnants of a few rawl bolts in the edging stones told me how to deal with the problem if it ever crops up again, if I'd had an M8 eye bolt I could maybe have got it in to some of those remanants, or if I'd had a rawl bolt and hammer drill I could have made my own mooring ring. In London 3 years ago, the barge Word on the Water had done just this. He had put several Rawlbolts in. Except he only used M6 ones so the eyes on some of them had straightened out, and had put them in the vertical face of the wash wall so some had pulled out of the stone taking the face of the stone with them. |
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Post by kris on May 4, 2018 16:36:37 GMT
When we broke down a couple of years ago we had to drag the boat about a mile or so before there was anywhere to hammer in a pin due to the tarmac extending right to the edge stones, wasn't even anything around to tie off temporary to have a look what had gone wrong! Remnants of a few rawl bolts in the edging stones told me how to deal with the problem if it ever crops up again, if I'd had an M8 eye bolt I could maybe have got it in to some of those remanants, or if I'd had a rawl bolt and hammer drill I could have made my own mooring ring. In London 3 years ago, the barge Word on the Water had done just this. He had put several Rawlbolts in. Except he only used M6 ones so the eyes on some of them had straightened out, and had put them in the vertical face of the wash wall so some had pulled out of the stone taking the face of the stone with them. this is why it would be better if cart put them in. But then of course boats would be able to moor, shock horror. |
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Post by kris on May 5, 2018 6:58:16 GMT
Ah the next section has lots rings but not enough water to get near them.
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Get back to the marina, you!
