benjilafouine
Well-Known Member
My thread was erased by mistake. No harm done. To recapitulate:
Four cinder blocks, tied together with chain. Four feet of chain, then floating buoys, then mooring snubber 16 inches and then a brass swivel to tie the ski. Total weight of 160 pounds in a cross pattern. The rope in the back is there to prevent the ski from going left and right.
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We had heavy duty winds over the past 24 hours, sustained winds of 30 mph from the North (the worse stuff). I was quite worried last night but I decided to test it out instead of pulling the ski out of the water. From experience I was pretty confident that it would do the job although I was a bit nervous so I checked on it every three hours (yes, I went to check it in the middle of the night).
Conclusion tonight: it didn't move an inch. Total success. This is a fresh lake setup with waves hitting almost 1.5 feet in my area so this is not a sea setup or a three feet waves setup (we have that here but not in my spot). I even think it could sustain much more. So this setup is good enough for a ski.
Note: there was a fifth block in the water but it was not attached to the others. I wanted to monitor the other ones by using this one as a reference.
Four cinder blocks, tied together with chain. Four feet of chain, then floating buoys, then mooring snubber 16 inches and then a brass swivel to tie the ski. Total weight of 160 pounds in a cross pattern. The rope in the back is there to prevent the ski from going left and right.
Picture:
We had heavy duty winds over the past 24 hours, sustained winds of 30 mph from the North (the worse stuff). I was quite worried last night but I decided to test it out instead of pulling the ski out of the water. From experience I was pretty confident that it would do the job although I was a bit nervous so I checked on it every three hours (yes, I went to check it in the middle of the night).
Conclusion tonight: it didn't move an inch. Total success. This is a fresh lake setup with waves hitting almost 1.5 feet in my area so this is not a sea setup or a three feet waves setup (we have that here but not in my spot). I even think it could sustain much more. So this setup is good enough for a ski.
Note: there was a fifth block in the water but it was not attached to the others. I wanted to monitor the other ones by using this one as a reference.
