# Monroe Harbor moorings
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monroe-harbor-moorings/237931
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 2, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monroe-harbor-moorings/237931 "2004-04-02T18:35:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Bingo\_Plebney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bingo_Plebney)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monroe-harbor-moorings/237931/1 "2004-04-02T18:35:36Z")
How do those little white bobbers in Monroe Harbor locate a boat? I expect they’re tethered to the bottom somehow, but how do they keep the boats from slamming into each other? Mooring + anchors?
Bingo-the-Landlubber-Plebney
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### Author:  [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2004, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monroe-harbor-moorings/237931/2 "2004-04-02T18:48:17Z")
I’m not familiar with Monroe Harbor, but if the moorings there are like those elsewhere, they are certainly tethered securely to the bottom - they’ll have chains or strong ropes/cables attached to anchors, very heavy weights, or perhaps to metal rods driven into a rocky bottom.
They keep boats from colliding by being located far enough apart. When you make fast to a mooring you’re supposed to use a short rope or chain so you can’t drift down on your neighbors. This is simplified by the fact that the wind/tide/current tends to affect boast in a similar way.
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### Author:  [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2004, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monroe-harbor-moorings/237931/3 "2004-04-02T21:36:24Z")
“boast” should be “boats”