Patent ID: 8807060

Claim:
A mooring limb comprising more than one elastically compressible core and an outer sheath, the more than one elastically compressible core being arranged with radial and/or axial spaces therebetween in an initial state, the limb being axially extensible as a result of a tensile force being applied to the sheath, the radial width of the sheath being contractible as the axial length of the limb increases, the cores being compressible radially by the sheath as the axial length of the limb increases and the sheath radially contracts around the cores, the initial spaces between the cores being reduced by the radial force acting upon the cores by the radial contraction of the sheath, the limb being axially contractible as a result of a force provided by the cores acting radially outward onto the sheath; the limb further comprising at least one layer provided between the cores and the sheath wherein the at least one layer has relatively low frictional properties to enable the sheath and cores to move relative to one another with relative ease.