Bollards along a dock are known as mooring bollards. The beauties pictured here (at the mouth of the Saginaw River) have both small tie-down loops at the top, and larger nose-shaped stops midway down, to keep the mooring lines of larger vessels on the post. The bolts used to mount these bollards to the seawall in this case are 12 feet long titanium lock-bolts, as thick as your wrist, the better to hold moored ships in place when the cities upstream inevitably release a deluge of millions of gallons of untreated sewage into the river at the slightest sprinkling of rain, which for some reason is a surprise unplanned-for event for the water treatment people when it happens several times a year every year.
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