Helix Mooring Anchor

[gjaffess]

Has anyone used a Helix Type mooring anchor to secure their boat. I have a 1500 lb Compac Suncat that I keep just off the beach. I don't want to use a mushroom because it is very shallow and I don't want to damage the bottom of the boat. I could use some feedback from anyone that uses this system - where to buy it and the best one to use. I keep the boat on a lake and it is fairly well protected.

 

[txtowman]

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32 West Chops Point Rd Bath ME 04530 USA

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(800) 866-4775 Local: (207) 443-7002

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[1blackdog2]

Has anyone used a Helix Type mooring anchor to secure their boat. I have a 1500 lb Compac Suncat that I keep just off the beach. I don't want to use a mushroom because it is very shallow and I don't want to damage the bottom of the boat. I could use some feedback from anyone that uses this system - where to buy it and the best one to use. I keep the boat on a lake and it is fairly well protected.

I keep both my boats moored offshore using a 3 anchor mooring system. I use 3 danforths on my mcgregor it sets in 1 to 3 ft of water depending on the tide. They have held up to a 58 knot blow. Once dug in they are not a factor in hurting the bottom of your boat. Just make sure the swivil is off the bottom so the rodes don't twist

 

[smoothsailing]

Has anyone used a Helix Type mooring anchor to secure their boat. I have a 1500 lb Compac Suncat that I keep just off the beach. I don't want to use a mushroom because it is very shallow and I don't want to damage the bottom of the boat. I could use some feedback from anyone that uses this system - where to buy it and the best one to use. I keep the boat on a lake and it is fairly well protected.

gjaffess,

The mooring provider at my yacht club installs them. Swears by them.

Send me an e-mail and I will give you his tele number. He's a nice guy and can give you all the info you need.

wmmulvey@aol.com

Bill

 

[Bob S]

gjaffess,
I posted this to the wrong post created by you. It belonged here.

I remembered reading a BoatUS Hurricane Prep Guide
http://www.boatus.com/hurricanes/assets/pdf/hurr_prep_guide.pdf

The first question, then, is: Will your mooring hold? As a result of numerous moorings being dragged during recent hurricanes and northeasters, a search has been underway for a more secure mooring anchor. A study by the BoatU.S. Foundation, Cruising World
magazine, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that a 500-lb. mushroom buried in mud could be pulled out with 1,200 lbs. of pull (supplied by a 900-hp tug); an 8,000-lb. deadweight (concrete) anchor could be pulled out with 4,000 lbs. of pull. A helix morring, however, could not be pulled out by the tug and the strain gauge recorded 12,000 lbs. of pull—its maximum—before a shackle was burst apart by the strain. Scope in each case was slightly less than 3:1. (In another helix test, a strain gauge had
registered 20,800 lbs. before the hawser snapped.)

After reading that I would prefer a helix mooring over a mushroom.

 

[Merlin Clark]

I used one of these for a long time: http://gmesupply.com/galvanized-earth-screw-anchor-p-56005.html and it worked fine. The earth/utility pole anchors screws in (I did mine with a crow bar), are heavy galvanized and WAY cheaper. Ooops, looks like Helix sells them too: http://helixmooring.com/roungshaftanchors.html I'm guessing at a huge premium.

 

[PaulK]

Our harbor uses helix anchors for about half the moorings - perhaps 150 out of 300 boats.
They work so well that for Hurricane Irene, people were worried that in the tidal surge boats would be held under water by their mooring pennants if they weren't lengthened. This shouldn't be as much of an issue on a lake.