Fender Clips

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CraigBradley

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I've heard about a range of plastic clips to hang fenders from stanchions i.e. fender to rope to plastic fitting. There are ones that fix onto the guard wires / rails but have not seen anything that fixed to the top of a stanchion. Anyone seen anything like this ?

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Are these the clips you buy the yottie that has everything<s>

I've always found that tying the clove hitch either side of the stanchion seems to keep the fender in place.
I was wondering how long these plastic clips would last if the fender got trapped under a gunwhale/pontoon with the boat rolling.

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Nah, the yottie that has everything has a clove hitch and then a half hitch, sometimes known as a chinaman/chinese hitch. Now that old boy will not let your fender disappear into the briney

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I cannot remember how many of these patent devices I have been persuaded to buy, used once and never again. If fenders were always hung in the same position and height they might be handy, but Sod's Law provides that every pontoon is at a different height, locks have completely different requirements, as do walls, especially ones with vertical baulks of timber on them.

IMHO a round-turn and two half hitches is totally secure and 100% versatile. It takes a little longer than a patent clip, if the pontoon is at the expected height. If not, it takes less time to adjust.

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You will find the Davis clips may be OK on rails but they slide along wire towards the middle as wire inevitably has some sag,unless yours is piano wire tight.I use a lashing at one end so can never get my guardwires mega tight

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1/ buy a one mtr length of 10m/m rope for each fender u have
2/ buy a book on knots & read
3/ splice the 10 m/m rope to each fender & "whip other end"
4/ tie fender to guard rail / toe rail & stow in-board
5/ JUST PRIOR TO COMING ALONG-SIDE deploy said fenders.
6/ when departing the berth carry out 5,4, & put fenders in locker

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No, No, No,
1/ at least 1.3 mtrs
3/ eye splice in one end of rope and back splice in the other
feed the back splice through the fender eye then through the eye splice and pull tight.

If you don’t want it to slip through your hand, replace the back splice with a Manrope knot.
(First a wall then a crown, now tuck up, then stick down)

failing that, use Fender Clips
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FENDER CLIPS !!!!
Never heard of em. we on the east coast dont get to see all these "new fangled" things.
we have to make do with Adnams & Woodfordes fine Ales.
1/2 Adnams Broadside + a bottle of light = Tanglefoot
perhaps this would assist to tie fenders . round turn + 2 half hitches or one tanglefoot.

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I've got a great fender story. One of my uncles was on a merchant ship in Venezuela (sp?) in the late 40s. There was no proper port so the ships tied on to moorings and off-loaded to lighters. One morning an American ship - 20,000 tons or so - lost control approaching the moorings. the English boat's skipper runs on deck shouting 'fenders fenders' . The crew collapsed on deck laughing since they'd seen the size of the impending disaster and the American ship tore a hole down most of the side of uncle's ship. Then they patched it up as best they could and crossed the Atlantic in it. Those were the days.

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http://www.arolyth.se/txffeng.html

Yes I have these fender clips, first used them in Sweden on a charter yacht, so I decided to buy some from myself. They were about £20 a pair at the time (exchange rate), but now available in the UK.

They are easy to adjust the fender height using its cleverly designed jaw that you grip the line with and flick out to release and adjust.
 
Fend-Fix

I use FEND-FIX, quick and easy to deploy and recover especially if your singlehanded, easy to adjust the height. Not lost a fender yet.

Good piece of kit.
 
jt_MG Spring said:
http://www.arolyth.se/txffeng.html

Yes I have these fender clips, first used them in Sweden on a charter yacht, so I decided to buy some from myself. They were about £20 a pair at the time (exchange rate), but now available in the UK.

They are easy to adjust the fender height using its cleverly designed jaw that you grip the line with and flick out to release and adjust.
Click to expand...

We used them for a few seasons but then I had a couple where the 'tongue' bit underneath broke off and fenders were lost. You also need to put a stopper knot in the loose end because the rope can get pulled out (or not jammed in properly). I sold some at a boat jumble recently as we have reverted to clove hitches, round turn etc or whatever. Good for what they are.

Hmm must have some more to sell somewhere....:)
 
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