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Finally, fit a small trumpet type jam cleat to the same side of the tiller as the fairlead, as far forrard as will not interfere with your grip.
Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
As you near the stern, a large iron cleat or fairlead lies diagonally across the wreck, followed by a pair of bollards slightly to the port side.
For example, a hoop-shaped piece of metal fastened to the deck is a fairlead if you use it to guide a line running through it.
To ensure high reliability, the profile of the mooring cable connecting the fairlead and the pad-eye must be accurately designed.
The port face wire was connected through a fairlead to the tug's towing winch that was used to tension the tug in the notch.
The configuration of the fairlead may vary according to the model of the winch.
Due to the diameter of the fairlead rollers, contact with the wire rope must be limited.
If the proper angle between the load and the fairlead is not maintained, it could result in damage to the winch.
Never work on or around the fairlead or winch drum when the winch is under load.
The use of a fairlead does not insure that the wire rope will wind onto the drum in an orderly manner.
Fairly soon I tire of standing, looking stupid, so using a drainage channel as a fairlead, I loop the rope round a tree and stick a couple of half hitches in it.
The other end of the sheet is led through one of the jib clew blocks and then back down through the fairlead on the jib car.
This is connected to the hose via a fairlead with a detachable connector fixed to the cable.
On the CCGS Sir William Alexander, the towing hawser was led through the aft centerline fairlead and secured around the towing bollard.
Excessive contact of the wire rope with the fairlead rollers could lead to failure of the wire rope resulting in damage, injury or death.
Catenary equations are solved for a three component mooring made up of two lines, connected at a point buoy or sinker where water depth and fairlead tension are given.
The latest hull and skeg designs are incorporated in this vessel as well as the most recent developments in fender, fairlead and winch design.
For WF fatigue, there are several factors affecting the location of the critical position, and it can occur at the fairlead location or at a lower section of a mooring line.
The present study employs the lumped mass method to simulate the dynamic response of mooring lines under different imposed oscillations at the fairlead, where the chain is connected to the floating facility.
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Judson was watching the last hawser slipping through the fairlead.
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