Temporary mooring
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Printed Date: 29 Jan 2026 at 1:42pm
Topic: Temporary mooring
Posted By: MB
Subject: Temporary mooring
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2023 at 3:05pm
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We have a multi-day family trip to Urupukapuka coming up soon. I'll be taking my 5.6m boat and need to setup a temporary mooring. I have borrowed an oversized anchor and chain and am thinking about a fixed length anchor rope of around 20m with a buoy at the end*. Don't think I'll be anchoring in any more than 5m of water (more like 2m), so a 20m rope should be plenty? How does my plan sound? *In addition to the above, I have an anchor/winch with 60m rope on the boat. |
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Posted By: Kandrew
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2023 at 3:48pm
| Are you trying to set it up so you can anchor the boat then bring it in to the beach take all your stuff off then pull the boat back out to the anchor from the beach. |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2023 at 4:37pm
No, I think it'll be too busy for that. Will use a kayak as a tender. |
Kandrew wrote:Posted By: yknot
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2023 at 8:39pm
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Have heard of tyres being filled with coment and short length of chain. Then put a rope and float on to tie up to. Remove float and rope when you leave. If you snorkel up there you might just find one already there. ------------- Those that say it can't be done are being overtaken by those doing it. |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2023 at 8:52pm
| That would be cool, but can't see myself going for a snorkel when we arrive with family and a load of camp gear on the boat. |
Posted By: Pcj
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2023 at 6:11am
MB oversize anchor and heavy chain would be fine. ------------- "Times up" |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2023 at 10:31pm
| Cheers. |
Posted By: Dept Of Fishing
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2023 at 10:39am
| I've got a temporary mooring I made using a power pole stay which has been shortened down. It's got a small auger shape on the end so you wade out at low tide and screw it into the bottom. Obviously this relies on having a bottom that allows that, but is removed once finished with so leaves no trace behind. I've got a Fyran 580 (6m) and never had an issue with it moving. I'll try to post a picture to better show what I mean. |
Posted By: Dept Of Fishing
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2023 at 10:50am
 You put a stick through the eye on the end to screw it into the bottom and the chain is attached to a short length of rope with a bouy and a loop to connect to the boat.
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Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2023 at 12:51pm
| Cheers DoF. Looks interesting. |
Posted By: MB
Date Posted: 24 Feb 2025 at 11:08pm
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An update. I've used the system described in my opening post a few times. Generally it's been OK. I went with a 25 metre rope (in addition to the chain) to comfortably cover 5 metres water depth at high tide. 25 metres is actually quite long and when pissed up launch owners anchor right next to your boat at last light, it causes a sleepless night. I'm sure their nice fibreglass boats would suffer more than my little tinny on colliding, but that's just somewhere I don't want to go. I've decided to shorten the rope and make an effort to drop the temporary mooring in shallower water to avoid the launches. I'm thinking of anchoring in 1 metre at low tide, assuming 3 metres at hight tide; 3 metres X 5 = 15 metre rope length. Only issue is that 15 metres away from where the anchor is dropped may not be deep enough to keep the boat afloat in an onshore wind. I'm not desperately worried about getting grounded per se, but if the boat swings about on oyster-covered rocks in the process, it could ugly. Something else, I've noticed that most people doing overnighters don't have anywhere near 5 X depth of water anchor rope out judging by the angle of the ropes. Thoughts? Cheers.
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Posted By: Phantom Menace
Date Posted: 06 Aug 2025 at 4:40pm
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MB, personally I would be a bit nervous anchoring that shallow. If the wind picked up, turned onshore etc. it could get interesting. I did a lot of anchoring off beaches overnight in the past while camping at places like Bland Bay. My preference was to anchor out further and just live with the distance to paddle or swim (I mostly swam out as I was going spearfishing anyway so was going to get wet). I was usually anchored out further than many of the other trailer boats (no launches there to worry about). One New Years Day we woke to find another boat washed up and full of sand etc.That boat was one that had been left much closer to the beach (and I had looked at the forecast and was one of the handful who had made the call to bring my boat in the day before so I slept soundly). Although places like Bland Bay are more exposed than some.
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