An apparatus is disclosed especially configured and adapted for mooring a
floating dock to a mooring pile. The apparatus minimizes damage to both
dock and mooring piles caused by changes in tide, waves, wake and other
water disturbances while, simultaneously, adding stability to the
floating dock--especially in regarding to listing--. The apparatus is
comprised of a cylindrical sleeve which is coaxially applied to a mooring
pile, a dock mounted mooring bracket comprised of a base plate which
connects to the sleeve mounted upon the pile via at least two "U" shaped
arms which are disposed in a parallel, spaced-apart relation which engage
selected and parallel circumferential grooves formed in the outer surface
of the sleeve. The base plate, in turn, is affixed to a structurally
sound portion of a dock such as a horizontally disposed plate. In further
preferred embodiments, a buoyant base is affixed about the inferior
terminus of the cylindrical sleeve to provide buoyancy thereto as well as
buoyancy to the dock to which the apparatus is affixed.