Tag:seamark:type=mooring
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| The equipment or structure used to secure a vessel. |
| Group: marine navigation |
| Used on these elements |
| Status: de facto |
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A marine equipment or structure for berthing and mooring of vessels.
How to map
seamark:type=seamark:mooring:category=*– Values see table below
If it is a buoy (or a bollard), also add:
seamark:mooring:shape=*– Possible values as for buoys
Categories
| Category (CATMOR) | seamark:mooring:category
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Definition | Rendering | Image |
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| Dolphin | dolphin
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A post or group of posts, which may support a deck, used for mooring or warping a vessel. |
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| Deviation dolphin | deviation_dolphin
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A post or group of posts, which a vessel may swing around for compass adjustment. | ||
| Bollard | bollard
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Small shaped post, mounted on a wharf or dolphin used to secure ship's lines. | ||
| Tie-up wall | wall
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A tie-up wall is a section of wall designated for tying-up vessels awaiting transit. Bollards and mooring devices are available for both large and small ships. | ||
| Post or pile | pile
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A long heavy timber or section of steel, wood, concrete, etc., forced into the seabed to serve as a mooring facility. If a pile is not used as a mooring facility use seamark:type=pile + seamark:pile:category=*.
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| Post | post
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A post used for mooring or warping a vessel. (Similar value: pile.)
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| Chain/wire/cable | chain
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A connection between two independent objects e.g. a buoy and pile or between two buoys used as a mooring facility. | ||
| Mooring buoy | buoy
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A buoy secured to the bottom by permanent moorings with means for mooring a vessel by use of its anchor chain or mooring lines. |
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| Ropes from ashore | shore_ropes
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A place where ropes for mooring a vessel given from ashore |
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| Automatic moorings | automatic
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Automatic mooring systems are remotely controlled and require no quayside personnel. The system and its performance are monitored and its status is reported to operations staff in real-time. There are different types of automatic mooring systems. | ||
| Mooring trot | trot
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A mooring trot is a mooring that is composed of ground tackle, mooring cables, buoys and mooring berths on junction cables. |
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