lankhorst ropes

SPM Hawsers typically manufactured from nylon (SG 1.14) will not fload naturally in seawater. A hawser wich sinks will foul the catenary moorings of a CALM buoy or other subsea equipment. We have a range of flotation methods.

In case where long service life with minimal maintenance is required, we reccomend the use of our Tubular floats. These are available in varying lengths  and diameter to suit. Tubular floats are stiffer than the fibre rope, so flexing may occur at the exit points from the floats. The longer the float length, the greater the flexural concentration. Therefore we do recommend a lager quantity of short lenght floats, as supposed to a smaller quantity of longer length floats.