Lagoon 421 - Mooring

LAGOON 421
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NAVIGATION
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A sufficient number of mooring lines suitably sized and suitable for
the environment shall be on board for mooring your boat.
- Always manoeuvre your boat using the engine.
- Make allowance for the current and wind when you handle your
boat.
- Protect your boat to the highest degree with suitably sized fenders.
- Always keep the mooring ropes unfouled and stored away.
- Handle your boat at a reduced speed.
AFTER MOORING
- Protect the mooring lines against chafing with plastic sleeves.
- Make allowance for the variations in tides if need be.
TOWING BOAT
- Tow another boat at a reduced speed and as smoothly as you can.
- Pay particular attention when you throw or catch the towing rope
(it may foul on the propeller).
NOTE: The stability may be reduced when you tow a boat.
TOWED BOAT
- Keep steering your boat and see to it that you stay in the wake of
the towing boat.
As a rule, set the anchor in at least 3 times the depth of water.
• PREPARATION OF ANCHORING (Illustrations following page)
- Install the bridle by fixing it to the chain plates located at the ends
of the fore beam.
- Put the bridle through the stem bow roller.
- Shackle the bridle to the central cleat during the lowering of the
chain.
• MANUAL ANCHORING
- Have your boat pointed into the wind and without speed.
- Release the brake on the chain lifter.
- Pay out the chain while moving back slowly.
- Secure the anchor chain on the bridle.
- Lead out the chain until the guy becomes taut.
Mooring
DANGER
Don't try to stop the boat with your foot, your hand or a boat
hook.
Towing
Anchoring
RECOMMENDATION
Before anchoring check the depth of water, the power of the
current and the nature of the sea bed.
NAVIGATION