How often do you have your mooring serviced ?

[storm petrel]

I believe the pros have prof liability insurance, so if things go pear shaped your insurer can hit them for the cost and that is why your insurer likes to see a receipt from a pro that is less than 12 months old.

[Killick69]

Spoke to the mooring contractor (Vic) last night. Was glad to hear from him that there are no boats washing about/on breakwall at Parsley Bay. He will do my mooring next week or week after, lIkely to be $190.
Cheers, john

[KJD13]

In Victoria, most of the swing moorings, within Port Phillip Bay, are owned and managed by Parks Victoria. One condition of your "authority to use a mooring" is that you get an annual inspection by one of the accredited Mooring inspectors. This has to be completed and passed onto Parks Victoria within a specified timeframe each year. Failure to comply with this leads to a threat to recind your authority.
The cost is usually $231 plus any repairs or replacements needed. This year I had to replace the main bridle, and it cost $109-00 plus GST.
Kevin
Wayward Lady, Mark 111
Williamstown, Vic

[Dolphin]

Four years ago Felicite came off her mooring.
A light southerly came up in the early morning. The mooring had been serviced 8 months earlier. The "Contractor" got someone else to do it and they didn't mouse the shackel pin. In the light conditions it rattled the pin out.
She travelled up Gunnamatta Bay until the 9m of mooring line got tangled around another boats mooring. Only two more boats and she would have hit the RMYC marina and racked up a nice bill.
It doesn't have to be blowing strongly for the mooring to fail.
Ten other boats moorings did the same thing.

That was done by "professionals".