mooring balls
Let's address the dangers of mooring balls
There are several types of moorings but as you can see their maintenance status can vary.
1) Government Agency mandated moorings
these can be maintained by the government agency - state or municipality - or outsourced to a vendor so in countries where moorings are a mandate to use in a particular anchorage due to conservation or environment or safety concerns you may be forced to use them- the question is what happens if it breaks ?
Ideally cities and port districts also have established mooring maintenance requirements. The schedule to lift, inspect and (possibly) repair moorings vary from harbor to harbor, with many requiring renewal annually or every other year.

2) Private moorings or mooring fields
run maintained or operated by a marina or commercial entity -
Most likely they are not the same and the breaking strength will vary based on thickness weight and overall maintenance - the question is what happens if it breaks ? Who pays / what it is warranted for and since you are paying who actually warrants it ?
3) Individual locals moorings - small dive shop operators - fisherman - local guys who are not necessarily ensured - endorsed by the government agency to have them and are selling them to you anyhow - the question is what happens if it breaks ?
Material Fatigue
4) or bring your own mooring -
think YOUR ANCHOR - you set it you know it you add scope you sleep well
CALIMA
African winds from SW – SE
A Calima wind, which brings sand from the Sahara Desert is unpredictable so it can happen any time of the year, but it usually appears in the winter season between December and March.. It can last from 3 to 5 days or even up to a week and it is very dense, causing low visibility and extreme amounts of dust entering everywhere.
The word Calima itself originates from the Spanish word for “haze”. This haze is a layer of dust and sand brought on high winds originating from Africa. On occasion weather fronts in the south-west of the Canary Islands can increase wind-speeds even more. In these cases the Calima will escalate bringing very high temperatures with it, and is able to carry dust high above the Atlantic covering hundreds of thousands of square miles with a dense cloud of Saharan sand, sometimes reaching the Caribbean.
DETAILS from 2020 Yacht Maya >>

One measure of air pollution is the amount of coarse particulate matter – or PM10 – in the air close to the Earth’s surface, another is aerosol optical depth (AOD) which is a measure of how much direct sunlight is blocked by dust and haze in the atmosphere. CAMS has been tracking both and, as confirmed by Aeronet observations, the CAMS forecasts of total AOD represented the event very well, including the longer-range transport.
In the Canary Islands, air quality was severely degraded for several days as a result of the dust storms, with high measured PM10 values.
ORCAS
CHECK THE ORCA ENCOUNTER MAP
https://www.theca.org.uk/orcas/reports
SUMMARY: DROPS SAILS - TURN ENGINE ON - GO IN REVERSE
I wish you all the best and that you never experience anything like this.
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SCHEDULE
WE DO NOT SAIL ON A SCHEDULE – WE NEVER HAVE and WE NEVER WILL, NEVER
SCHEDULES KILL SAILORS & SINK VESSELS AND ARE KNOWN AS THE MOST DANGEROUS ITEM ON A YACHT
WE SAIL WHEN THE WEATHER IS GOOD AND WE CROSS WHEN THERE IS A GOOD WEATHER WINDOW
The best time to cross the Atlantic to the Caribbean is between November and February. The Mid-Atlantic tradewinds – Easterly winds that travel continuously from east to west – are stable and (usually) unaffected by hurricanes at this time of year.