I spent four years on a mooring so I'll give you my routine.
The gear:
Get two mooring rigs with a bull snap shackel on each end. Thats four shackels and two lines. You use two for redundancy. Most marinas on the lake sell them, but they only have bull snaps on one end. You need to add snaps to the other end. The diameter should be 1/2 to 5/8 for that size boat and the length should be the same as your neighbors.
The routine:
After a day of boating, go to the dock and drop off your family. While you are there hook one end of each rig to the bow hook on your boat. Put the other ends in the boat. Boat out to the mooring ball, and get your bow near the ball. (easy in calm water, take a lot of practice in wind and waves) Walk up to the front of the boat and hook the mooring ball with your boat hook. Pull the mooring ball in and clip on the rigs. Figure out how you will get to shore.
BTW I have two leftover mooring rigs, PM me if you want them.
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