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Mooring definition

Mooring means any swing or pile mooring whether private, commercial or recreational mooring that is located within the coastal marine area of Northland.
Mooring means any gear (including an anchor or stake) set out on the seabed in a permanent manner to which a boat or other floating structure may be secured by a chain, cable, wire or rope;
Mooring when used as a noun means a mooring anchor and mooring buoy together with attached chains, cables, ropes and pennants and related equipment, unless the term is qualified or restricted.

Examples of Mooring in a sentence

  • Response: Norfolk District is in agreement with NMFS and has revised the regional condition as follows: NWP 10 - Mooring BuoysRevised Condition for Sufficient Mooring Depths: Water depths in the mooring areas should be sufficient that vessels moored float at all stages of the tide.

  • Mooring buoys are generally located in open waters and float on those waters; the anchor used to secure the mooring buoy occupies little of the bottom of the waterbody.

  • IACS Member identified that the Rec.13 refers to a previous version of the OCIMF “Standard for Equipment Employed in the Mooring of Ships at Singe Point Moorings”.

  • NWP 10 - Mooring BuoysCondition for Sufficient Mooring Depths: Water depths in the mooring areas should be sufficient that vessels moored float at all stages of the tide.

  • When the yellow light is on, vessels may pro- ceed through Hog Island Channel as far as the West Mooring Basin where they must stop.


More Definitions of Mooring

Mooring means the berthing and unberthing services, including shifting along the quayside, that are required for the safe operation of a waterborne vessel in the port or in the waterway access to the port;
Mooring means any appliance used by a craft for anchoring purposes and which appliance is not carried aboard such craft when underway as regular equipment.
Mooring means the mooring system and related infrastructure by which the FSRU is moored.
Mooring means any buoy, pile, pontoon chain or other apparatus used for the mooring of vessels;
Mooring means a device which is used to secure a boat or ship in a fixed location and includes a mooring pile and a floating dock;
Mooring means the water space at the Mooring Site temporarily allocated to you from time to time by us for the Mooring of the Boat during the period of this agreement.
Mooring means any fixed device or combination of such devices used or which may be used for securing a craft in a fixed position in relation to the sea-bed;