 Use of rope and chain stoppers, mooring shackle

Stoppers are used to hold a tight mooring rope or wire ropes while it is being transferred from the warping drum
to the bitts and vice versa. Rope stoppers are used for manila and nylon hawsers, and chain stoppers are used for wire
ropes.

1.Rope Stopper: It is a manila rope, about 25 mm in diameter and 3 metres in length. An eye

splice is made on one end. It is used with vegetable fibre hawsers only.

2.West Country Stopper: Another stopper, which is effective, is a single rope used as two parts. About six to seven
metres of synthetic fibre rope (24 mm) may be used. Both ends are whipped. It is used on synthetic fibre ropes.

3.Chain Stopper: It consists of a length of about 7 mm diameter unstudied chain, about 1.5 metres long. One end of this

chain has a wide link, while at the other end is spliced (by chain splice) a length of about 1.5 metres of small rope (10
mm diameter). A chain stopper should never be used for vegetable or synthetic fibre ropes, as it will cut them.

4.Carpenter Stopper: This is a heavy block consisting of two halves hinged at one end and open from both the. sides.
This is meant to take the load of wire ropes under strain and is used as temporary measure for taking weight
Mooring shackles are forged steel shackles that are used to attach anchor chains to mooring buoys.
All mooring shackles, regardless of size, have a standard mortise (opening) of 7 inches. Mooring
shackles should not be used for any other purposes.