I used to moor mine from the bow eye. Whatever you do be sure your chafe gear is applies wherever the mooring pennant touches anything, even the edge of the float in the water holding up the mooring line as it is led up to your bow chock. I forgot that once and the line chafed just enough so that the next storm that came through was enough to break the line at the chafe point. Tom B Montgomery 17, 1978 #258 On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:35 PM, <swwheatley@comcast.net> wrote:
I am planning to keep my 1976 M17 (aluminum toe-rails) on a mooring this summer, but it is curiously bereft of bow chocks and I'm trying to decide what to do about that. The toe-rails are pretty smooth; do people just put some chafe gear on their mooring pendant and let it hang over the side? If not, what have people done to integrate bow chocks with the aluminum toe-rail? Photos of particularly elegant solutions would be appreciated. Thanks.