Bump (maritime)

See also: Bump

  • the bump is a small length of rope (but also of chain) whose end is fixed at the foot of a Bitte of mooring.

It is used to retain a Aussière temporarily who already was transfered with the winch the time necessary to turn it on the bollard.

  • This action is called to work the hawser, it consists in rolling up several times the bump around itself and of the hawser and to maintain the tension.

  • the bump chains some with the same utility but is used to work the mooring ropes out of steel wire rope.

  • One also calls bump a rope struck in front of a ship and used to moor a boat or an appendix along the edge. One uses the terms bump before and bump postpones .

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