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7325509 Retractable mooring line device  
A retractable mooring line device comprising a reel for storing and paying off a mooring line ( 2 ), having side walls ( 22, 24 ) each comprising a series of notches ( 60 ) for receiving a...
7299835 Apparatus for transferring a fluid between a transport vessel and a storage station  
An apparatus for transferring a fluid product between a fluid transport vessel and a storage vessel includes a tubular arrangement for conveying the fluid between the two vessels. The tubular...
7168385 Watercraft tethering apparatus  
A tethering apparatus for a watercraft includes an elongated flexible line, a spool and a biasing member adapted to urge the spool to automatically uptake portions of the elongated flexible line. A...
7104215 Mooring line retracting/extracting fitting  
A deck mounted fitting provides for extraction and retraction of a mooring line for a vessel. A container below deck may be used to store the mooring line. Extraction of the mooring line may be...
7104213 Hawser guidance system for quick release mooring hooks  
The present invention provides a hawser guidance system, adaptable to a quick release mooring hook assembly, which is provided with a hook and a vertical arm supporting a rope carrier that can...
7096813 Tie up accessory for a water craft  
A mooring device for a water craft capable of storing and dispensing a line used to moor a boat or the like is disclosed. A spring biased reel assembly carrying a mooring line is rotatably mounted...
7007623 Retrieval and connection system for a disconnectable mooring yoke  
A mooring yoke and method for using same to connect or disconnect a shuttle vessel to a body, such as an LNG liquefaction and storage vessel (LNG/FPSO). The yoke is pivotably connected at one end...
6651580 Method and system for mooring  
A mooring system that uses combination traction winch/windlass units is improved by adding an additional fairlead at each combination unit location and by increasing the strength of existing...
6651577 Portable marine outhaul  
A portable marine outhaul has a closed loop of line strung between pulleys attached to a pair of anchors, e.g. sea and land anchors, and used to keep a boat moored off a temporary shore. The...
6295944 Automatic tethering system for a floating dock  
A tethering system for a floating boat dock that allows both vertical and horizontal motion of the dock in response to changes in water level while maintaining the dock in a constant position...
6182592 Docking apparatus  
A docking system for vessels employing at retractable docking line coupled to a rotatable spool. The rotatable spool is controlled by an operator of the vessel by a centralized hydraulic or...
6095075 Retractable boat line  
A retractable boat line for mooring a boat is wound about a payoff reel contained within a stationary housing, which my be mounted beneath the exterior surfaces of the boat, for example within the...
6089547 Method and apparatus for winch upgrading  
A drum winch is replaced with a traction winch module. The traction winch module is mounted on and supported by the existing mooring winch frame of the drum winch. The traction winch module...
5988095 Clamping mechanism for securing a rope to a winch drum  
A rope clamp for clamping a rope to a winch drum surface comprises first and second bolts, each of which has a head and a threaded end, an upper clamp having two opposed ends and a first hole...
5819679 Integral boat tethering device  
This instant invention is a spring-loaded boat tethering device. More particularly, it discloses an improved spring-loaded boat tethering device which provides reliable and repeatable extension and...
5803779 Dynamically positioned loading buoy  
A dynamically positioned loading buoy for transferring liquid from an offshore structure to a tanker. The loading buoy is a floating hull. The hull is provided with thrusters that are used to...
5690043 Automatic robe bundling device  
A mooring line is automatically rewound into a bundle of loops by a rewinding reel that includes a rewinding line that is attached at spaced intervals by clamped eyelets with the last eyelet tied...
5522336 Method and system for the casting of anchors and mooring of platforms and anchor casting unit for same  
A system for the casting of anchors meant for the mooring of floating oil producing and/or drilling platforms, using an anchor laying craft. The general arrangement consists of a deck on the craft...
5390618 Offshore mooring system  
A mooring system for mooring a vessel off-shore, which comprises a block located in the water at a depth below expected wave action and at a distance from the vessel; a mooring line extending from...
5292089 Tie down apparatus  
The invention comprises a restratining tie down apparatus for tieing down a movable abject, such as an aircraft, in a straight line connection between the stationary object and the aircraft. The...
5201274 Ship mooring system  
A ship mooring system for securing a ship to a fixed object by means of a mooring cable, includes a mounting member pivotally mounted on the ship, a drum rotatably mounted at one end of the...
5113702 Boat and dock guard  
A boat dock for use to store boat therein, the boat dock including a boat slip having an open entry, opposed sidewalls and a front, a dock guard secured to each dock sidewall at the entry and...
5062376 Anchoring device for light boat  
An anchoring device for mounting on a boat, particularly a light boat used for sporting purposes. It has a pair of aligned winch drums with cables wound on them into rolls for winding and unwinding...
5020463 Arrangement for raising or lowering boats or the like  
An adjustable davit arrangement is attachable to a pair of pier pilings for raising or lowering a vessel and comprises a first davit mounted on a first pier piling, a second davit mounted on a...
5002003 Boat mooring device  
A boat mooring device connectable into a suitable hole formed into the deck of a boat, the device including a deck plate, a trunnion connected and extending from the unexposed surface of the deck...
4846090 Boat mooring device  
A boat mooring device capable of storing and dispensing a rope used to moor a boat or the like is disclosed. A spring biased reel assembly carrying a rope is rotatably mounted within a case. The...
4841898 Anchoring system for floating structure  
An anchoring system for a floating structure is described. The anchoring system is of the type which employs a combination anchor line consisting of a lower length of chain cable connected to an...
4809635 Mooring line retrieving device  
A device for retaining, carrying and making easily graspable one end of a mooring line for a boat adjacent a dock or mooring. The device includes an extensible member having two ends and which is...
4760813 Device for eliminating disturbing heeling of ships at loading and unloading  
A device for eliminating the risk of disturbing heeling at loading and unloading of a ship (10) lying at a quay (12). The device includes a motor-operated winch (18) on the ship, the winch having a...
4729332 Mooring apparatus  
A mooring apparatus comprises a mooring bridle 1, a bitting part 2 equipped to the mooring bridle at an end thereof, a mooring winch 3 connected to the mooring bridle at another end, a cable 4...
4727819 Single line mooring system  
A mooring system is provided, which can be rapidly installed and which is of relatively low cost. The system includes a transfer structure attached to a vessel, an anchor line extending from the...
4722293 Integrated winch and windlass  
An integrated winch and windlass for hauling in and paying out a mooring line which consists of wire rope serially connected to chain cable is described. The integrated system has a pair of...
4697537 Retractable line storage device  
A retractable line storage device (10) is disclosed. Most particularly the device provides a storage and automatic retrieval device for mooring lines as used on small boats. A hollow housing (18)...
4669411 Vessel mooring system and method  
An apparatus is provided for securing a vessel to a stationary mooring, which apparatus permits shifting movement of the vessel in a fore and aft direction relative to the mooring while restricting...
4649850 Method and apparatus for mooring a ship in frigid weather conditions  
A system for mooring a ship in frigid weather conditions includes an enclosed mooring construction in which the winches and/or bollards of a ship are installed in rooms having doors on the ship...
4616590 Acoustical mooring release system  
A semi-submersible drilling rig or the like having a plurality of chain lockers, a plurality of anchor windlass assemblies and a plurality of fairlead assemblies, a plurality of lengths of chain...
4476801 Mooring device  
A mooring device is secured to a sea-going vessel to handle anchor line of the type having an upper length of wire rope in series with a lower length of chain cable. The mooring device comprises a...
4446807 Mooring apparatus for floating vessels  
A mooring apparatus for a semi-submersible oil exploration and drilling rig includes eight drum anchor hoists and winches on which are carried eight wire rope mooring lines. Each of these lines...
4354446 Temporary mooring of tension leg platforms  
Methods and apparatus are provided for temporarily mooring a tension leg platform while the permanent vertical tethering elements thereof are connected between the platform and an anchor located...
4317421 Mooring line handling apparatus  
A mooring line handling apparatus comprising a small diameter sheave, a large diameter sheave, the small sheave and the large sheave being axially mounted on a shaft secured to a base, a first line...
4303037 Single point mooring system  
Disclosed is a single point mooring system for mooring vessels at a certain distance from offshore structures. The system includes a buoy positioned in the water and a cable attached at one end of...
4281613 Method of and apparatus for mooring a floating structure  
A tension mooring system for a floating structure such as a drilling or production platform having a plurality of permanent mooring lines extending upwardly from a plurality of bottom anchors and...
4200052 Systems for controlling the position of a moored floating vessel  
This invention provides a system which includes winding apparatus for haug in and paying out a substantially inextensible steel rope tethering a floating vessel to a moorage or towing vessel, and a...
4078768 Hauling-in a rope and chain line  
In a method of hauling-in a rope and a chain interconnected by a coupling link, using a winch for the rope and a wildcat for the chain, the rope is hauled-in on the winch until the coupling link...
4055137 Vessel mooring system  
A vessel mooring system for mooring a vessel to a mooring facility on a wharf by means of a plurality of mooring devices, which mooring devices incorporate tension detectors therein, whereby the...
4033277 Underhull quick disconnect mooring system  
A mooring line or cable system is provided for a drillship including a hull adapted to float in water at a water-line, the mooring line being in the general form of a catenary chain line. The...
3985093 Chain-wire rope anchoring systems and anchoring systems and connectors therefor  
Anchoring systems, of the type comprising an anchor chain and a wire rope, characterized by a connector between the chain and rope which makes it possible to haul in without stopping to disconnect...
3965841 Method for hauling a vessel alongside a mooring platform  
This relates to a method for positioning and hauling a vessel alongside a mooring structure wherein the vessel is connected to the mooring structure by two cables and the vessel is hauled by...
3943871 Submerging system for marine structure  
A submerging system for marine structure which comprises a floating capsule structure, sumbersibly anchored by a lever pivoted at one end to the bottom of the floating structure and at its opposite...
3912228 Integrated chain-wire rope mooring system  
An integrated chain-wire rope mooring system is comprised of a mooring line consisting of a chain attached to an anchor at one end and permanently coupled to a wireline at the other end which is...
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