The word "mooring" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "mooring" when referring to the act of securing a boat or ship in a specific location. For example: "The captain secured the boat to its mooring."
Seiches may disturb shipping by generating strong reversible currents at the entrances to harbours or by causing moored vessels to oscillate against their mooring cables and break free.
Rising at around 8am, we practised manoeuvres or sailed all day, mooring at 6 or 7pm, leaving plenty of time for eating the homemade meals provided and indulging in our sizeable pre-cruise booze run while listening to Kevin's picaresque life story.
The Belokamenka, which handles 10% of Rosneft's oil exports, is a good example: the oil reaches its Arctic mooring (and thence Europe and occasionally America) by an elaborate combination of trains, pipeline and tankers.Investing in Rosneft also carries a risk that is unlikely to be covered in the prospectus.
Once a winter attraction, it now draws summer visitors as well to its beaches and expanded mooring facilities.
Icebergs are commonly far larger than those in the Arctic and have deeper keels; they scour the seafloor at deeper levels and would be more likely to damage seafloor installations such as wellheads, pipelines, and mooring systems.
Bollards (mooring posts) on the lockside are used for holding vessels steady by ropes against the turbulence during lock operation; mooring hooks set in recesses in the walls provide an alternative anchorage against surging.
There are about a dozen important species of sessile and pedunculate barnacles that foul ships and submerged portions of marine installations, such as pier pilings, oil platforms, floats, buoys, and mooring cables.
Bowline, knot forming a loop at the end of a rope, used for mooring boats, hoisting, hauling, and fastening one rope to another.
It is a very common and useful knot that is used for mooring boats and hoisting or hauling objects.
The berthing positions can therefore be sited well out from the shore in deep water, and the structure itself can be limited to that required to provide a small island with mooring devices.
