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  2. Line stopping - Wikipedia

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    The line stopper is hydraulically or mechanically pushed into the line to seal the pipe. The main is supported by the line stop sleeve. After performing the necessary service, the stop is removed, and a blind flange is installed on the sleeve. There are various types of line stopping heads.

  3. Single buoy mooring - Wikipedia

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    Single point mooring at Whiddy Island, Ireland Single-point mooring facility off Puthuvype, Kochi, India. A Single buoy mooring (SrM) (also known as single-point mooring or SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect for tankers loading or offloading gas or liquid products.

  4. Stopper knot - Wikipedia

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    An Ashley stopper knot at the end of a line. A stopper knot is tied at the end of a rope to prevent the end from unraveling. It then functions like a whipping knot. A stopper knot is tied at the end of a rope to prevent the end from slipping through another knot, or passing back through a hole, block, or belay/rappel device. It then functions ...

  5. 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.

  6. Rope splicing - Wikipedia

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    Splices can be used to form a stopper at the end of a line, to form a loop or an eye in a rope, or for joining two ropes together. [1] Splices are preferred to knotted rope, since while a knot typically reduces the strength by 20–40%, [ 2 ] a splice is capable of attaining a rope's full strength. [ 3 ]

  7. Anchor windlass - Wikipedia

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    The anchor is shackled to the anchor cable (US anchor chain), the cable passes up through the hawsepipe, through the pawl, over the windlass gypsy (US wildcat) down through the "spurling pipe" to the chain/cable locker under the forecastle (or poop if at the stern (US fantail)) - the anchor bitts are on a bulkhead in the cable locker and the bitter end of the cable is connected to the bitts ...

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