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Forsheda Mooring Compensators
You know when you are tied up to the Rottnest Island fuel jetty pens for the night
and the easterly wind comes howling in at 3 am? Your berthing lines start to jar and jerk and you get thrown from
your bunk?
I've been caught this way before and it's one of those experiences every new boatie
is bound to come up against.
Well, I've just come across a fantastic device which has been around for years
overseas and will solve this and many other problems associated with mooring, and is environmentally friendly:
The Forsheda Compensator.
Designed to take the shock out of berthing!
The Forsheda is a patented rubber device through which you thread your mooring
lines. As your boat takes up the slack on a morring or pen line, the Forsheda stretches and stops the snatching
of the line against the boat and jetty.
Different sized Forsheda Mooring Compensators cater for different sized boats
and lines. You can even put two in the line to give extra stretch!
Great, also, for puting into your dinghy tow line to reduce the possibility of
pulling the cleat off the deck of either boat.
I am now using them on all the pens at Aquarama
Marina because, besides the protection they afford, they are environmentally
friendly. By using the Forsheda system you no longer need to muck around with the old concrete weights, chains,
thimbles, and shackles. All of this gear ends up rusting and dropping to the river or marina bed. I find concrete
ends up wearing away the timber on the marina pylons, or chips the paint on the jetty beams we have just spent
thousands of dollars rustproofing.
I have been using these Forsheda Mooring Compensators for years now, and really
have no idea how long they will last! They just don't seem to break!
The best thing is that if you do shift pens to another marina, or because you
buy a bigger or smaller boat, you can easily remove your pen lines in minutes and take them with you.
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