Standing Moor

A Standing Moor is a mooring technique for vessels anchoring in a restricted area in which the swinging circle needs to be kept small.

Commonly, it is used in tidal rivers where a vessel can expect to turn on the tide, but does not have space for a large swing circle.

A Standing Moor is used in confined areas where a vessel expects to swing on an anchor, but might not have space to swing around the full length of cable.

Mooring on two anchors allows a vessel to lay to one anchor when the tide is flowing from one direction, then swing to the other anchor as the tide turns.

The Standing Moor in particular is used when the vessel initially lays to a single anchor, and then drops back to lay the second. This contrasts with the Running Moor where a vessel instead drops the lee anchor first, and then continues to run ahead to drop the weather anchor.