Synthetic Mooring Rope
Hawser Protectors
Hawser Protectors is a group of 6 IMPA-coded items (codes 214621–214626) under Synthetic Mooring Rope in the Rope & Hawsers section (IMPA 21). All of them are priced per piece. The list runs through 6 metric sizes from 50 mm to 100 mm.
Buying guide
Hawser protectors are chafe sleeves fitted over a mooring line where it bears on a chock, fairlead or quay edge. The catalogue lists them by the rope diameter they fit, in 10 mm bands from 41–50 mm up to 91–100 mm, with the length specified on the order.
Chafe sleeves are used wherever lines pass through chocks or across fairleads, and are made specifically to protect high-performance mooring lines.[1]
How to specify it
Give the rope diameter (which picks the band) and the protector length. Measure the length from the line’s actual lead: the sleeve has to cover the whole contact point and extend far enough that rails and other hardware do not become a second chafe point.[2]
Ask how the sleeve is closed and held in place. A sleeve that slides away from the contact point protects nothing; designs with a hook-and-loop closure can be installed or repositioned on the line, and tag-line points at both ends let the crew keep it in position.[1][2]
Rules and certificates
COSWP asks for mooring equipment to be inspected regularly and for the surfaces of fairleads, bollards, bitts and drum ends to be clean and in good condition, with rollers and fairleads turning smoothly. A protector does not replace that — a rough fairlead still damages the line beside the sleeve.[3]
Questions buyers ask
- Can I use a length of PVC hose instead?
- Be careful. Padding can act as a thermal insulator and trap the heat a stretching line produces; a run of mooring-pendant failures in the 1980s ended the once-common practice of using PVC tubing as chafe protection.
- Which size do I order for a 64 mm hawser?
- The 61–70 mm band. State the length you need as well; the catalogue does not fix it.
Sources
Published by Sherif Awad, founder of GeoMarineHub — in ship supply since 1990, a family business since 1981 (45 years). Last checked .
At a glance
Part of Rope & Hawsers (IMPA section 21): Mooring ropes, hawsers, steel wire rope, cordage and twine, by construction and diameter.
It is one of 42 groups under Synthetic Mooring Rope; the others include Buoyant Winchline 6-strand Mooring Rope, Chafe Protections for Mooring Line, Hawser Double Braided Nylon/Nylon, Hawser Double Braided Polyester/Nylon, Hawser Double Braided Polypropylene/Polypropylene and 36 more.
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- Items
- 6
- IMPA codes
- 214621–214626
- Priced
- per piece
- Sizes
- 50 mm – 100 mm
Items
Also under Synthetic Mooring Rope
- Buoyant Winchline 6-strand Mooring Rope
- Chafe Protections for Mooring Line
- Hawser Double Braided Nylon/Nylon
- Hawser Double Braided Polyester/Nylon
- Hawser Double Braided Polypropylene/Polypropylene
- Hawser Nylon 8-strand
- Hawser Polypropylene Mono-filament 8-strand
- Hawser Polypropylene Split-film 8-starnd
- Hawser Thimble for Mooring
- Improved Mixed Rope "NIKASTEEL" Polyester / NIKASTEEL Combination
- Mooring Line 12-strand Polyester Jacketed "Turbo-EPX"
- Mooring Line 8-strand "Eurofloat"
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