Ship fastener

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Ship fastener occupies a mooring cable on a bollard
Vehicle of the Hamburg ship anchor
Deckhand on the traditional mooring boat "Margarethe" of the Hamburg Lines Men

A ship mooring or mooring person is a person who helps mooring ships from shore or using a mooring boat to moor . The corresponding activity on departing ships is called untying as opposed to being tied .

Typically he works on the quay , on the pier or on board his mooring boat. He is thrown from on board a throw line for each mooring line , which is weighted down with a monkey fist (or something similar) so that it flies far enough and in the right direction despite the wind. With the throw line he draws the eye of the mooring line towards him and places it over the correct bollard . Thereafter, it is for the ship's crew, the mooring line with a winch or a capstan steifzuholen and fix on board.

The unleashing (or casting of lots ) will only take a few minutes.

For his job, a ship mooring person needs to know which bollards are used in which order and where a stay can be life-threatening if a mooring line breaks (breaks) and could kill him. A ship is usually with an on the quay bow line , a stern line, a Vorspring and an aft spring moored. On larger ships, additional mooring lines, also called hawsers , are used to distribute the tensile forces that are created by the wind pressure on the ship's superstructure, rigging and cargo.

In the Port of Hamburg , mooring makers are independent entrepreneurs and some of them are part of the Hamburg Ship Fasteners Working Group . They go to their locations by car or with their own mooring boats.

Since this is not a profession with regulated training, a ship mooring should have experience in nautical service.

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