Patent ID: 7111573
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: B63B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for securing a watercraft to a dock piling, said method comprising: a) securing a mooring line device to a mooring line, said mooring line having two opposite ends, wherein one of said opposite ends is a free un-looped end and the second of said opposite ends is a looped end; and wherein said mooring line device includes (i) an elongated first tube having an inner channel for housing a portion of a mooring line, said tube having an open top end, an open bottom end, and a longitudinal length, (ii) a second tube having an inner channel for housing a second portion of said mooring line, said second tube having an open top end, an open bottom end, and a longitudinal length, and wherein said second tube is connected adjacent to said first tube and positioned with respect to said first tube such that the inner channels of said tubes run substantially parallel to one another; and (iii) a locking component integral with said first tube, said locking component configured to secure a looped end of the mooring line thereto; b) wrapping around a piling a portion of the mooring line, said portion located between the mooring line device and the looped end of the mooring line; c) engaging within the locking component of the mooring line device the looped end of the mooring line; and d) tightening the wrapped portion of the mooring line about said piling by pulling upon a second portion of the mooring line, said second portion located between the bottom end of the first tube and the free un-looped end of the mooring line.