Patent ID: 7096813

Claim:
A tie up accessory for mooring a water craft, comprising a spring loaded payoff reel mounted on a planar surface of the water craft for dispensing a mooring line; a line passage hole located in the planar surface of the water craft adjacent the payoff reel for receiving the mooring line; a locking mechanism comprising a pair of inner and outer nested cylinders mounted within the line passage hole, each of the nested cylinders having a rear cylinder sidewall provided with a line passage aperture through which a free end of the mooring line passes, and wherein the inner nested cylinder is rotatably mounted relative to the outer nested cylinder, the inner nested cylinder being movable between an unlocked position in which the rear cylinder wall apertures are aligned and the mooring line freely travels to allow the mooring line to freely unwind from the payoff reel and a locked position in which the apertures are misaligned and the mooring line is clinched between the rear cylinder sidewalls.