Fender Line Knot Required

Eye splice for a fender? NO absolutely NOT

You will realise why when you loose one overboard and try to recover it with a conventional boathook.

Due to both the construction of the eye and the constant pull down it stays squeezed closed and it's nearly impossible to get the knob of the hook into it.

A bowline is far better as this always floats in an open shape and can easily be hooked. Furthermore, as it it easy to replace plain tie-ons you won't put off replacement of frayed ones until it's too late and the fenders are lost. If you're worried about your bowlies' security the tails can be seized with whipping twine.

Then there are the situations when you want to string several fenders together or even, heaven forbid - clean them.

Apart from fulfilling a desire to have your boat look like it belongs to Hyacinth Bucket's royal yacht, I cannot see any case for eye-splicing fender tie-ons.

Steve Cronin
 
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Go on, admit it, you can't splice!


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Oh yes I can, but only 3-strand I'm afraid, and my fender lines are plaited, being what I happened to have to hand at the time!
 
Splice. If you dont know how look it up as it takes a couple minutes and is the neatest and best way.

However there is a rope locking system available in chandlers that clamps the rope. Tis designed for using on fenders. Sorry dont know what they are called! they sell the in Aladdins Cave Chandlers!
 
Re: Eye splice for a fender? NO absolutely NOT

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A bowline is far better as this always floats in an open shape and can easily be hooked

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Nobody showed you how to twirl the boathook around the line to hook it then Steve? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ours are spliced with an eye splice and the free end worked through the eye, think it looks better IMO

And agree that sheet bends and rolling hitches are essential knots
 
Re: Eye splice for a fender? NO absolutely NOT

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sheet bends

[/ QUOTE ] I'm not to keen on sheet bends. Make it a double sheet bend and I'll go with it though.
 
Always ends...

...in failure. There is no way that the 8mm rope we use would coil around a stick, unless we were to put around 2-3 metres on each fender and that would cause all sorts of problems. Then there is the panic with which you need to "whisk" the fender up. Could take someone's eye out!

Why make a job more complicated than it need be?

Steve Cronin
 
Wrong technique?

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Always ends in failure...

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Our lines are 8mm and about 1.5m length. We can get them every time with this trick else MOB practice would start to get a bit expensive
 
Why bother with ANY unnecessary technique .......

...just to defer to some delusion about keeping "all ship shape and Bristol fashion" Gawd bless yer Lord Horatio, you're a saint yer worship an' no messin!

Keep your eyesplice for it's intended purpose - one end of a mooring warp where it's very ability to collapse minimises it's liklihood of snagging in a fairlead

Steve Cronin
 
Totally agree. Best not to splice directly to the fender. If the fender gets punctured you can remove the sliced rope if done your way, but not if directly spliced. A couple of spare fender ropes with eye splices already made will enable you to quickly rig fenders for horizontal use. That can be very handy sometimes if you are against a wall or need to protect the transom when coming stern first to a jetty.
 
Maybe this is one area the Yanks have us beat. The American made Taylor fenders have a hole right through the middle. The line is 'assembled' to the fender simply by threading it through and tying a stopper knot in the end. Simple...
 
Re: Eye splice for a fender? NO absolutely NOT

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Agree, always a double

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Why only double? If the two lines are very different in size then try a quadruple, if not more. But certainly multiple rather than single.

And the same comment can be applied to the rolling hitch.
 
Knot an expert.
I like bowlins
For some things
Hitches for some strings
Sheet bends at some ends
Round turns for sometimes
Never tried splicing
Have to get some help in
Rope string warps an all
Got a longish painter cos the Wifes quite small
Lobbing ropes is truly quite trickey
Missed a few bollards mores the pity
Knotting tying
Making secure
Whats the best knot ,not to sure
8 knots OUT OF CONTROL WATCH THE SHORE!
Don,t want to HIT The Marina that fast no more.
So watch your knots and tie up safely
Do things nice and slow and gracefully.
Attache your fenders how you like.
If you don't like My poetry on your Bike!
Get knotted and take a hike! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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Seemingly you've never had a need to join two lines of significantly different sizes (sheet bend) or had to relieve pressure on a really taught line (rolling hitch).

Your three plus these two make the five knots that all sailors should know. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

And I agree with some of the other posts - splice the lines onto the fenders, you'll never need to worry about them again.

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whoops,

fishermans knot to join line and a fishermans bend to tie properly to a hoop etc.

amateur /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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