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  2. Mooring - Wikipedia

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    Once a mooring line is attached to a bollard, it is pulled tight. Large ships generally tighten their mooring lines using heavy machinery called mooring winches or capstans. A sailor tosses a heaving line to pass a mooring line to a handler on shore. The heaviest cargo ships may require more than a dozen mooring lines. Small vessels can ...

  3. Bitts - Wikipedia

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    Bitts are paired vertical wooden or metal posts mounted either aboard a ship or on a wharf, pier, or quay. The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes, hawsers, or cables. [1] Bitts aboard wooden sailing ships (sometime called cable-bitts) were large vertical timbers mortised into the keel and used as the anchor cable attachment point. [2]

  4. Pile hitch - Wikipedia

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    The pile hitch is very easy to tie and can be tied in the bight, without access to either end of the rope, making it a valuable tool. A pile hitch may be easily and quickly tied either in the end or bight of a heavy line. It is remarkably secure and is easy to cast off when the left bight has been loosened by a single well-aimed kick.

  5. Berth (moorings) - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of berth types based on cargo of the ships calling: Bulk berth Used to handle either dry or liquid bulk cargo. Vessels are loaded using either excavators, conveyor belts, and/or pipelines. Storage facilities for the bulk cargo are often alongside the berth – e.g. silos or stockpiles. Container berth

  6. Dolphin (structure) - Wikipedia

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    Wood pilings grouped into a pair of dolphins serving as a protected entryway to a boat basin. A dolphin is a group of pilings arrayed together to serve variously as a protective hardpoint along a dock, in a waterway, or along a shore; as a means or point of stabilization of a dock, bridge, or similar structure; as a mooring point; and as a base for navigational aids.

  7. Fairlead - Wikipedia

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    Adjustable fairlead (lower right) leading to winch on sailboat Fairlead (Chock style) Three mooring lines running through fairlead on a Royal New Zealand Navy ship.. A fairlead is a turning point for running rigging like rope, chain, wire or line, that guides that line such that the "lead" is "fair", and therefore low friction and low chafe. [1]

  8. Container port design process - Wikipedia

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    Mooring (watercraft) infrastructure at a port describes those structures that mooring lines from vessels can tie off to in order to prevent drifting along or away from the wharf face. The mooring structures are called cleat (nautical) or bollards, depending on their size and shape. Bollards are designed to handle much larger loads, and in turn ...

  9. Messenger line - Wikipedia

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    A heaving line thrown from a ship to shore then used to pull the mooring warp from the ship to a bollard. [1] A light line installed inside a mast during manufacture, which is later used to reeve a halyard or pull an electrical cable into place. [2] A line used to lower a toolbag or equipment along a downline to a diver. [3] A line used to ...

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