Hi all,
A word of warning about recently installed public moorings on the
Great Barrier Reef. This may apply to older moorings too.
They have a float which is only just below the surface at low tide and holds the
rope down to the
mooring off the seabed. From the float up to the buoy is about 4 or 5 metres of floating plaited warp about 80mm diameter (same material as the pennant).
Around low
water this warp just lies across the surface, waiting for the
current and or
wind to change and your
boat to drift over it.
I've been tangled at Pancake Creek and Scawfell Island, had to use the
engine to get out which is undesirable; gave the ones at Goldsmith Island a miss!
I think the issue is worse the shallower the
water.
Rgds