Single point mooring system

摘要

Disclosed is a single point mooring system for mooring vessels at a certain distance from offshore structures. The system includes a buoy positioned in the water and a cable attached at one end of the buoy and attached at the other end to a reel or the like for reeling in or reeling out cable to move the vessel back and forth relative to the buoy. Another cable is attached to the buoy and depends downwardly therefrom into the water where it is attached to a sinker ball resting on the bottom. An anchor is connected to the sinker ball.