Ships – Mooring device – Boom type
Patent
1995-10-06
1997-02-04
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Mooring device
Boom type
114218, 114221R, B63B 1700
Patent
active
055988059
ABSTRACT:
A mooring line receptacle apparatus for a watercraft includes an elongated mooring line receptacle for each mooring line, wherein each mooring line receptacle is connected with the hull of the watercraft at the gunwale thereof; and further includes an abutment member connected with each mooring line at a distal end thereof. The mooring line receptacle has an interior hollow defined by a sidewall composed of a durable, resilient material having a slot therein along its entire length. The sidewall opposite the slot is attached to the hull of a selected watercraft via threaded fasteners. One mooring line receptacle is located at the port bow, another at the starboard bow, another at the port stern and another at the starboard stern. Preferably, each of the sets of port and starboard mooring line receptacles end near each other at a generally amidship location on the gunwale where the skipper and crew/passengers enter and leave the watercraft. The mooring line is composed of conventional material used for nautical moorage, and has an abutment member at its distal end. The slot has a width smaller than the cross-section of the mooring line, such that the mooring line can be forced through the slot into the interior hollow of the mooring line receptacle, and thereupon is trapped therein such that the mooring line cannot fall out of the hollow through the slot, nor, via the abutment member, slide therein at the distal end.
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Basinger Sherman
Keefe Peter D.
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