Dynamic vessel mooring system and method

A mooring apparatus for mooring a vessel having a vessel length and a vessel weight, via a mooring buoy to an anchor disposed at a bottom of a body of water under weather conditions from a light weather condition up to a preset maximum weather condition, the mooring apparatus comprising:

• a bouncer connected via an anchor line to the anchor having an anchor weight, the bouncer having a bouncer weight;
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• a catenary section line connected between the mooring buoy and the bouncer, the catenary section line having a catenary section length and a catenary section weight;
• the bouncer weight, the catenary section length, and the catenary section weight being selected to place the bouncer just touching the bottom of the body of water in the preset maximum weather condition for the vessel having the vessel length and the vessel weight.

A method of mooring a vessel having a vessel length and a vessel weight, via a mooring buoy to an anchor disposed at a bottom of a body of water under weather conditions from a light weather condition up to a preset maximum weather condition, the method comprising:

• connecting two or more bouncers in series to the mooring buoy, the two or more bouncers including a distal bouncer which is connected via an anchor line to the anchor having an anchor weight, the two or more bouncers each having a bouncer weight;
• connecting a first catenary section line between the mooring buoy and a proximal bouncer which is a first bouncer of the two or more bouncers;
• connecting the first bouncer sequentially to an i-th bouncer as the distal bouncer in series via two or more catenary section lines from the first catenary section line to an i-th catenary section line as a distal catenary section line;
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• selecting the two or more bouncers each having a bouncer weight and the two or more catenary section lines each having a catenary section length and a catenary section weight, to place the distal bouncer just touching the bottom of the body of water in the preset maximum weather condition for the vessel having the vessel length and the vessel weight.