StormSoft Reduces Boat Damage

Chain Moorings Damage Sea Bed

Show below are boats using Elastic Moorings. Note the healthy sea bed directly below elastic-moored boats.
Mouseover to view chain mooring damage to Eel Grass on the sea bed, also known as "slash circles" or "slash zones".

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Chain Mooring Slash Circle Demo

The StormSoft™ Elastic Mooring system is a more sensible alternative to traditional ball and chain moorings.
Simply put, elastic moorings nearly eliminate the severe stresses and abrupt motions of vessels anchored with chain. In extreme weather, elastic mooring systems expand up to 30% of the slack length to eliminate the destructive jerking motion typical of taut, inflexible chain moorings. Frayed mooring lines are the single most common cause of boats breaking free.

Mooring lines continuously chafe against cleats, chocks, fittings because water is in constant motion.
Over time, chafed lines may become too weak to secure the boat during the next big storm.

Elastic mooring lines give and take, reduce chafing and extend line life up to 15 years, eliminating frequent replacement expense.

Eliminate Seabed Damage

Chain moorings rake the sea bed, forming "crop circles" (below)

Elastic Moorings float above the sea bed, leaving eel grass and marine life unaffected.

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Eelgrass Improves Water Quality

Eelgrass meadows can be a natural carbon sink, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in sediments, even more than rain forests, while improving water quality and reducing coastal shoreline erosion. This is called "Blue Carbon".

Courtesy of MIT, May 17, 2016

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