9 DNS Heaving Line, Stoppers
9 DNS Heaving Line, Stoppers
9 DNS Heaving Line, Stoppers
and safe handling of mooring ropes. Use of slip-ropes. Use of fenders, messenger line.
Gantline
1) What is gantline?
Gantline is a length of a rope. Thicker than heaving line. It is use to pass heaver line (wire rope)
to jetty / tug boat / Another ship.
Stoppers
Stopper is used to transfer the mooring ropes or wires from warping drum to mooring bitts.
On board two types of stoppers to be used.
One is rope stopper, another one is chain stopper.
In rope stopper two types of stopper are there.
1) Single rope stopper.
2) West country stopper.
Rope stopper is used in mooring ropes.
Chain stopper is used in wire ropes.
Mooring Shackles
Mooring shackles are used to join the mooring wire and the fiber tail rope.
On board two types of Mooring shackles are there.
1) Mandal shackle.
2) Tonsberg shackle.
Mandal shackle
SHEAVE CROWN
The mandal shackle is used to connect the mooring wire and the fiber tail rope.
It is made of stainless steel.
This shape designed to pass through fair leads.
Mooring wire rope connected in the sheave (pin).
In mandal shackle the pin is covered with sheave (rotatable).
Tail rope is connected to the crown.
Tonsberg shackle
PIN CROWN
The tonsberg shackle is used to connect the mooring wire and the fiber tail rope.
It is made up of galvanized steel.
Tonsberg shackle having only pin no sheave.
Tonsberg shackle weight is more than mandal shackle.
Tail rope is connected in the pin.
Mooring wire is connected in the crown.
Use of Slip-Ropes
Slip rope is a mooring rope, when fastening the ship on buoys, both end of the mooring ropes
will remain in the ship.
One end of the mooring rope eye pass through the ships fair lead and it will pass on the ring of
the buoys and it will come back to the ship through the fair lead.
The mooring rope eye will put on the ships bit and other end of the mooring rope will make
tight using warping drum and then fasten the rope on the same bit.
When casting off the ship, no person need to be present on the shore or buoy.
Slack the mooring rope from ships bit, once fully slacked remove the mooring eye from the ships
bit and heave up the other end of the mooring line.
The advantages of slip ropes may be released from the ship.
Use of Fenders