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2. Marina - Wikipedia

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   A marina may include ground facilities such as parking lots for vehicles and boat trailers. Slipways (or boat ramps) transfer a trailered boat into the water. A marina may have a travel lift, a specialised crane used for lifting heavier boats out of the water and transporting them around the hard stand. A marina may provide in- or out-of-water ...

3. Mooring - Wikipedia

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   Mooring involves (a) beaching the boat, (b) drawing in the mooring point on the line (where the marker buoy is located), (c) attaching to the mooring line to the boat, and (d) then pulling the boat out and away from the beach so that it can be accessed at all tides.

4. Buoy - Wikipedia

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   Mooring buoys keep one end of a mooring cable or chain on the water's surface so ships and boats can tie to them. Many marinas mark them with numbers and assign them to particular vessels, or rent them to transient vessels.

5. Mooring hitch - Wikipedia

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   The mooring hitch can be used to tie a small boat to a post, pole, bollard or similar. As it is a quick-release knot, it can be easily untied by pulling the working end E. [1] If the working end is long enough, this can be done from the boat. [2] It is considered rather insecure though. [2] [3] Tying the mooring hitch

6. Berth (moorings) - Wikipedia

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   The size of the berths varies from 5–10 m (16–33 ft) for a small boat in a marina to over 400 m (1,300 ft) for the largest tankers. The rule of thumb is that the length of a berth should be roughly 10% longer than the longest vessel to be moored at the berth.

7. Bitts - Wikipedia

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   As a verb bitt means to take another turn increasing the friction to slow or adjust a mooring ship's relative movement. [1] Mooring fixtures of similar purpose: A bollard is a single vertical post useful to receive a spliced loop at the end of a mooring line. [1] A cleat has horizontal horns. [4]