Thursday Island storm mooring

MOORING SYSTEM DESIGN

Description:

The mooring consists of 3 of 750 kg Stingray anchors and 55 m of 50 mm chain on each leg (82.5 m on the leg in the direction of the prevailing current) up to a 40 mm chain raiser and a 1.5 t reserve buoyancy buoy.

The hawsers are made of 25 m x 64 mm 8 strand polypropylene mooring rope.

The mooring systems were installed in the second half of 2020.