mooring anchor


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Noun1.mooring anchor - an anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in placemooring anchor - an anchor used to hold a mooring buoy or a channel marker in place
anchor, ground tackle - a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
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The variable boundary conditions due to mooring anchor point are appropriately incorporated.
Structural behaviour of fully coupled spar-mooring system under extreme wave loading
The deck-mounted linear winch for the job was rated to 450 tons, but because the three mooring anchors were extremely embedded in the sandy seabed, the effective tension on the chafe chain would have increased by an estimated 1.5-2 times the original 400 tons.
FPSO decommissioned off Tunisia

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