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figure 7
A bollard with a pair of horizontal arms is known as a staghorn, and you
can make fast a mooring line to a staghorn by taking the line around the
bollard, up over one arm (figure 8.1), down, and back across the same side
of the bollard and up over the other arm, returning across the same side
of the bollard again in a figure-of-eight pattern (figure 8.2), repeating the
sequence until the line is secure. This method, which is sometimes called
anchoring, permits the line to be cast off even while it is under load.
figure 8.1
