Are your fenders up to it?

[newtothis]

stowage might be difficult, but these look quite effective
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/994525040564670464

 

[Tiger Rag]

Whilst I cant be certain I would say they are inflatable. I can say from experience that if those two ships come together with any force at all they won't last two minutes.

 

[Cheery]

Superyachts use inflatable ones, otherwise they would need another yacht to store them on!

 

[[3889]]

Whilst I cant be certain I would say they are inflatable. I can say from experience that if those two ships come together with any force at all they won't last two minutes.

You can lift a locomotive with an airbag. Just needs to be tough material.

 

[Daydream believer]

Says a lot for the handling of the ships that they are not actually being crushed that much

 

[[70521]]

There is no way my fenders would handle that, but then again I would never come that close to another vessel.

 

[Pete7]

Those fenders look quite good, but the orange ones are rubbish, can't even stop a trawler from bashing the quay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_H-FhEvAc

 

[Brent Swain]

I cut the wire core out of tires, then cut the remaining tire into 3 pieces, and stuff the pieces inside each other, and paint the outer one. Then I make a hole in the ends for the rope to run thru .Been using the same one for 34 years, no problems.

 

[Daydream believer]

I cut the wire core out of tires, then cut the remaining tire into 3 pieces, and stuff the pieces inside each other, and paint the outer one. Then I make a hole in the ends for the rope to run thru .Been using the same one for 34 years, no problems.

Well if you spend a lot of time bashing into reefs then you need something rough & ready. Does not matter if it looks "pants"!!

 

[Brent Swain]

Well if you spend a lot of time bashing into reefs then you need something rough & ready. Does not matter if it looks "pants"!!

If you cruise full time, and your boat doesn't spend 90% of its time in the same marina, you need something tough and functional .
Yottieness is usually the exact opposite of tough and functional ,deliberately so, in most cases. Yottieness fawns over the "delicate and fragile " look .
If it looks "delicate and fragile" it probably is.

 

[Daydream believer]

If you cruise full time, and your boat doesn't spend 90% of its time in the same marina, you need something tough and functional .
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Depends a lot on the capabilities & attitude of the operator. Plus, of course their pride in their sailing & how they present themselves to the outside world.
Some like to look like scruffy wanderers. Some prefer to look respectable & act so. It is just a way of life that different people adopt.

 

[Brent Swain]

Depends a lot on the capabilities & attitude of the operator. Plus, of course their pride in their sailing & how they present themselves to the outside world.
Some like to look like scruffy wanderers. Some prefer to look respectable & act so. It is just a way of life that different people adopt.

I take greater pride in going places and living a free life than I ever would in letting others define what my priorities should be ,while working like a slave in a marina, to impress the naive, pretentious and self riteous assumig their priorities should overide mine. People of limited means, who get sucked into that, don't tend to semi retire in their 20's.

 

[sarabande]

I cut the wire core out of tires, then cut the remaining tire into 3 pieces, and stuff the pieces inside each other, and paint the outer one. Then I make a hole in the ends for the rope to run thru .Been using the same one for 34 years, no problems.

No ultra-violet degradation of the carbon-impregnated rubber, let alone the normal biological deterioration of the rubber itself into a friable material with zilch mechanical strength ?

A photo would be really useful.

 

[dom]

No ultra-violet degradation of the carbon-impregnated rubber, let alone the normal biological deterioration of the rubber itself into a friable material with zilch mechanical strength ?

A photo would be really useful.

All manageable; I tend to use weighted tractor tyres, which double-up as flopper-stoppers at anchor.

 

[Blue Sunray]

All manageable; I tend to use weighted tractor tyres, which double-up as flopper-stoppers at anchor.

You are correct but BS is well known for his inflammable underwear.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Those fenders look quite good, but the orange ones are rubbish, can't even stop a trawler from bashing the quay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_H-FhEvAc

Who else was wincing at the sheer incompetence of the guy on the foredeck? I was yelling "Snub the rope on the bitts behind you!" Trying to hold the rope without snubbing it, and having to be shown to take figure eights round the bitts? I thought crew on fishing boats had to have training in elementary seamanship! I was a bit concerned about the strain on that rather tatty looking bit of rope, too, but ropes on trawlers usually look a bit tatty, being heavily used!

 

[penberth3]

Who else was wincing at the sheer incompetence of the guy on the foredeck?...

Me! He was really trying hard to get his hands between rope and metal. When someone had done it for him (and jumping aboard like that wasn't too clever either) he started to get the idea, but put the dead end round the bitts!

 

[dom]

Who else was wincing at the sheer incompetence of the guy on the foredeck? I was yelling "Snub the rope on the bitts behind you!" Trying to hold the rope without snubbing it, and having to be shown to take figure eights round the bitts? I thought crew on fishing boats had to have training in elementary seamanship! I was a bit concerned about the strain on that rather tatty looking bit of rope, too, but ropes on trawlers usually look a bit tatty, being heavily used!

Loved the name of the boat