Patent ID: 8726826

Claim:
A method of mooring a ship, comprising: disposing a first mooring line through a plurality of first sub-system dock-side sheaves and a plurality of first sub-system ship-side sheaves such that said first mooring line alternatingly runs through a longitudinally successive plurality of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side sheaves and said first sub-system ship-side sheaves, and said first mooring line runs through a last of said plurality of first sub-system ship-side sheaves and a last of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side sheaves, wherein each of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side sheaves is associated with at least one of a plurality of first sub-system dock-side attachments, wherein each of said plurality of first sub-system ship-side sheaves is longitudinally located between a longitudinally successive pair of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side attachments, wherein said last of the plurality of first sub-system dock-side sheaves is longitudinally located after said last of the plurality of first sub-system ship-side sheaves, and wherein a first of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side attachments is longitudinally located before a first of said plurality of first sub-system ship-side sheaves; and providing constant tension to a length of said first mooring line from said first of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side attachments to said last of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side sheaves by securing a first end of said mooring line to said first of said plurality of first sub-system dock-side attachments and securing a first counterweight to a second end of said first mooring line.