329-Mooring Field Layout and Design

By: John B. McAllister, P.E.

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Course Objective

This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description

This course has been designed to provide a background and broad overview of mooring systems and their components, as well show the design process behind laying out a mooring field. Moorings provide for easy and secure vessel tie up in areas of transient boat users or in locations in which berths or slips are not available. The advantage of a mooring over anchoring the vessel is that the moorings are typically selected based on the harbor bottom sediment types and are weighted and/or secured to better hold and secure various types of vessels in that area. When properly designed and laid out, a mooring field will represent a safer, more manageable harbor area, with less disruption and damage to the seabed, and less chance of damage between vessels.

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(4.4) 10 Reviews

Review of: Mooring Field Layout and Design

Joseph S Johnson

03/07/2023

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Good intro Mooring Field Layout

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Review of: Mooring Field Layout and Design

David Manning

12/29/2022

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Good basic course.

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Review of: Mooring Field Layout and Design

05/28/2022

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Interesting content. Good overview.

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Review of: Mooring Field Layout and Design

Joe Matrisciano

03/11/2022

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Excellent course, well laid out informative - great work

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Mooring Field Layout and Design

Robert Smith

12/31/2020

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Good class as a broad overview. I was disappointed there was no discussion of selecting anchor loads. Easy Test.

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Good Class

Jimmy Lee

12/18/2020

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Very good overview of Mooring Field Layout

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329-Mooring Field Layout and Design

Jim McClaflin

10/12/2020

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Good review of the basics. Should also include a trot line design.

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329-Mooring Field Layout and Design

David Bloomquist

07/02/2019

Good review, learned some important factoids.

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329-Mooring Field Layout and Design

Warren Miller

02/14/2019

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Good overview of the design process, but the paper really needs to be proof read. Also, I am surprised that the "circles" only include the lengths of the rodes, and not also the lengths of the attached boats. Is that because the boats are all assumed to be pointing in more-or-less the same direction?

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329-Mooring Field Layout and Design

Raymond Nolan

01/21/2019

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FUN COURSE, TKS

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Course Code: 100268-02

Course PDH Hours: 2

Engineering Course Approvals

This course is accepted for engineering continuing education credit in all US states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Canadian provinces.
Ohio rules allow only 6-hours of unsupervised online courses such as this course per license renewal period
Kansas rules allow only 5-hours of self-study courses such as this course per license renewal period

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