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Hi David
Thanks for the advice but that might be overkill for my needs. I really just want to leave the boat for a month and will be using it every weekend and checking it if there are strong winds. I'm not expecting any cyclones (hurricanes)! The strongest wind we get in Sydney, Australia is a southerly. I've seen this reach 50 knots but that is unusual. I'll anchor an a spot that's protected from the south.
Cheers
Mark
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> From: "David&Joan" <>
> Sent: Thursday, 5 October 2006 11:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: lv-ab: Ground tackle advice
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> Mark:
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> When I lived in Connecticut and kept my boat at a small yacht club on Long Island Sound, each boat supplied its own mooring. One season a hurricane hit. The boats with heavy, mushroom type moorings fared well. The ones with a three anchor, danforth type anchor mooring didn't do so well.
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> So, for a 27' sloop, I would put down a 300 lb mushroom mooring and you should be fine unattended. Chapman's gives the design for such a mooring.
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> David
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