Mooring buoy having a hole for the passage of a mooring chain

摘要

A mooring buoy has a hole passing through it for a mooring chain. The buoy has a main flotation part formed from flexible plastic filled with high density foam which provides the buoy with buoyancy, a core fabricated from high density resin which lines the hole to allow free running of the chain therethrough, a through pin which has an eye at each end, one for connection to the chain and one for the connection to a vessel and a stopper ball fabricated from high density resin which is formed around the pin to sit on top of the buoy and prevent the pin from passing through the hole. The buoy may be radar reflective and may have luminous impregnation in the outer flexible plastic of the main flotation part.