Hartshorn Marina’s Mooring Field provides peaceful accommodation for your sailboat. Dinghy storage is included and available in a gated area. Customers must provide all lines and tackle necessary for securing vessel to buoy. 

Mooring Specifications/Suggestions

1. Pennants should be 2.5x the vertical distance from your waterline to your gunwale plus any extra length from the gunwale to the mooring bitt if the bitt is in the center of your deck.
2. A jaw and eye swivel should be attached to the loop at the top of the mooring ball. Your pennant(s) should be attached by shackles to eye splices around metal thimbles. If you use a three-pin (anchor) shackle, the pin must be wired to the body of the shackle.
3. You would be well advised to put chafe guards of some kind on your pennants if they pass over the gunwale of the boat. Polyethylene hose is a cheap and handy product to use for chafe guard.
4. When you leave your boat, it is best to leave the rudder amidships. This helps to keep the boat from “sailing” around the mooring and kinking the mooring painters. This also takes a lot of strain off your rudder and its fittings.
5. Three strand or braided nylon is the only acceptable rope for pennants. The use of any other material except 7×19 galvanized or stainless steel wire is almost a guarantee that your boat will “go away.”
6. We discourage putting carpet on your mooring ball to protect your hull. Here is an alternative. Run your pennants through an appropriate diameter and length of schedule 40 rigid PVC pipe. Be sure that the pipe is reamed smooth with an inside taper at each end. Protect the pennants against chafe with rigger’s tape where they enter and exit the pipe. Neat and cheap. If you do not use the pipe, put plastic cable ties on your pennants every 6” for about 3’ to keep them from snagging on the chain under the mooring when they are slack.

SUGGESTED TERMINAL TACKLE*

*source – Chapman: Piloting, Seamanship, and Small Boat Handling ©