Temporary mooring device for small marine vessels and methods of use

A method of translating a small marine vessel along a substantially smooth surface, said method comprising the steps:

• providing first and second temporary mooring devices each having first and second selectively engagable suction cups, and a line interconnecting the suction cups one with the other;
• securing the line of the first mooring device proximate to a bow of the small vessel;
• affixing the first and second suction cups of the first mooring device to the substantially smooth surface in a laterally spaced apart configuration;
• securing the line of the second mooring device to a stern of the small vessel;
• affixing the first and second suction cups of the second mooring device to the substantially smooth surface in a laterally spaced apart configuration;
• releasing the first of the suction cups of the first mooring device from the substantially smooth surface;
• translating the first suction cup of the first mooring device laterally along the substantially smooth surface in a manner to leap-frog the second suction cup to be laterally spaced from the second suction cup on an opposite side of the second suction cup;
• re-affixing the first suction cup of the first mooring device to the substantially smooth surface;
• releasing the first of the suction cups of the second mooring device from the substantially smooth surface;
• translating the first suction cup of the second mooring device laterally along the substantially smooth surface in a manner to leap-frog the second suction cup to be laterally spaced from the second suction cup on an opposite side of the second suction cup;
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• re-affixing the first suction cup of the second mooring device to the substantially smooth surface.