Sentence examples for mooring vessels from inspiring English sources

The near-term fix still involves mooring vessels offshore.

To prevent failure of mooring lines in modern position mooring (PM) systems, position moored vessels are kept within a small distance from a desired reference position.

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.

There are other specialists, such as staticboatholidays.com, and even the likes of Airbnb and Trip Advisor advertise moored vessel accommodation.

Some even shinny up the ropes that moor the vessels.

Although they no longer moor their vessels first, grizzled old salts still drop by to chat or read.

Between the two levels, the retaining walls, usually made of massive stone blocks, are decorated with the great iron rings once used to moor merchant vessels, and some are pierced by openings left by water gates for old palaces or inspection ports for subways, sewers, and underpasses.

Moored floating vessels offer an attractive solution to oil and gas recovery in a range of water depths.

Showing his preoccupation with man's fallen nature, Newman wrote: "Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man".

The next morning there seemed lots to digest, from how to get the boat going, operate the heating, make sure there was power, water and so on – to simply trying to tie and untie the right kind of knots to moor the vessel.

(High-seas ballast water exchange is already mandatory for ships entering the Great Lakes, and will be required next year for vessels mooring in California).