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Notes from the mooring field.

Testing, harbor practice, and what we're learning as MoorSafe goes into the water.

Testing · · 4 min

What 40,657 pounds looks like: inside the Yale Cordage tensile test

We put a 300 lb traditional mushroom and a 300 lb MoorSafe prototype on a 100-foot test bed and pulled until something broke. Here is what happened.

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Field test · · 3 min

28 days on the bottom of Casco Bay

Two anchors, one muddy seabed, a lobster boat, and a diver. Why MoorSafe came up fully buried — and why that matters more than the breakout number.

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Harbor practice · · 3 min

Why a swivel doesn't stop chain wrap

Swivels and bridles reduce twist in the chain. They do nothing about the vertical post the chain wraps around.

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Company · · 2 min

In memory of Captain Gregory Smith

MoorSafe exists because Greg spent twenty years watching chain wrap ruin seasons and knew exactly what the fix had to look like.

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