A moorage for affixing to a floating dock and allowing a user to single
handedly soft land, dock, and moor a boat thereto. Attaching apparatus
attaches to the floating dock. Bow stop apparatus is connected to the
attaching apparatus by connecting apparatus and is engaged by a bow of
the boat during mooring. The connecting apparatus is generally
vertically-oriented, straight, slender, and elongated. The attaching
apparatus includes a lower portion and an upper portion which both
receive a lower end of the connecting member. The bow stop apparatus
includes a pair of plates that diverge away from the connecting member.
In an alternate embodiment, the pair of plates are resiliently attached
to the connecting apparatus by coil springs that act as shock absorbers
when the pair of plates are impacted upon by the bow of the boat during
mooring.