Re: Can anyone recomend a mooring system? Please help!
Fastman...you could provide more information and get some better answers, like wate depth, lake bottom conditions, etc, but here's what myself and most others do around the lake I'm on. Metal, like railroad engine wheel is ideal but hard to come by, most of us have the local concrete plant make up round (3 ft diameter, 6" thick) mooring "caps" outfitted with a "U" embedded. Getting it to the location is not easy. Connect galvanized chain to the "cap" and to a mooring ball with a stainless swivel. Chain length should be approximately 1.5 to 2 times depth of water. Attach nylon rope from mooring ball to boat using pre-made one with 3/4" nylon and appropriate stainless hardware, including swivel and clasp. With mooring ball will be good instruction for set-up. Be sure set-screws and similar threaded bolts with holes are "cottered" to prevent loosening that inevidibly occurs with the constant motion of moving water. Hopes this helps, a marine dealer can also help...don't under-estimate what constant grinding, tugging and motion can do to chains, ropes and parts, use high quality, heavy duty stuff.
