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Grappling woth the best solution to this, fender baskets too obstructive of your view in my opinion, with comparitively narrow side-decks I have no wish to create an 'obstacle course' for the crew. As the fenders have an 'eye' at each end, I am wondering whether a potential solution to this may be to have a rope through the bottom eye so that fenders can be pulled up and secured horizontally to rails while underway. Anyone tried this or have any other solutions?. Ideas gratefully received.
 
Yep, thats the way to do it... With some careful fettling and fiddling, you should be able to use one very long rope knotted through the lower eye of each fender in turn, and with one pull (per side..) you can stow the lot horizontally. Tie off to a suitable stanchion / cleat etc... Easy.
 
Fender stowage underway

I have a Sunseeker Manhattan 60 which has plenty of fender stowage, but all we do is leave the fenders attached and lay them on the side decks when underway.

The only time we need to go to the bow is when we approach port or enter a Cala (anchorage).

We then slow down to below 5 knots and put the fenders over the sides without any stress etc.

Some people may say it looks naff with the fenders deployed whilst at anchor but not everyone in the anchorage is competent at close quarters boat anchoring, so who cares.
 
Stowing them in the anchor chain locker is good but... if you have rusty chain they get marked and look bad. As for hanging them over the side I read the minutes from the Royal Perth Yacht Club around 1900 and there was a coment that leaving your fenders out was akin to galloping a carrage with a lady in the carrage, clearly not the done thing. :)
 
Have just ordered a set of fender hooks today as it happens. They appear to be the solution for us.

We dont have huge decks to store them on and dont like the look of fender baskets so these appear to be the answer. I suppose time will tell.
 
I too have limited deck storage, & fender baskets obstruct your view too much from a hardtop cruisers steering position. I use hooks, but not the expensive s/s ones as advertised on the net. I get suitably size painters S hooks from the local D.I.Y. superstore at about 1.50 euros per item. With these I attach fenders to guardrails using the 'eye' in each fender end, the slight pressure of air in the fender keeeps it snugly in place against the guardrail. A quick wash n dry of the S hooks in port keeps them usable, and if you drop one over the side they are cheap and easy to replace.
 
On the bottom eye of the fender I have a short piece of elastic rope with a plastic hook.
This rope/hook goes around the vertical stanchion,
so that the fender is horizontal ouside the hull
The short flexible rope is on the bow side, the long normal fender rope is on to stern side of the fender
(otherwise wind will blow the fender away from the hull while cruising at speed)
when mooring, just undo the small plastic hooks, so that the fender will hang vertical (these hooks remain fixed on the elastic rope on the bottom eye)

this method has prooved to be handy for us.
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the picture is a little misleading
can make a more close picture when somebody wants more detail.
 
Hookers

buster3 said:
I no I should not do this but what do you think?

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There is an Ad next to your vid with a lady winking(I said WINKING) and telling you how to earn £47 per hour,seemed cheap to me for a Hooker

ps,I hope these are not the ones tested by MBM
 
BartW said:
On the bottom eye of the fender I have a short piece of elastic rope with a plastic hook.
This rope/hook goes around the vertical stanchion,
so that the fender is horizontal ouside the hull
The short flexible rope is on the bow side, the long normal fender rope is on to stern side of the fender
(otherwise wind will blow the fender away from the hull while cruising at speed)
when mooring, just undo the small plastic hooks, so that the fender will hang vertical (these hooks remain fixed on the elastic rope on the bottom eye)

this method has prooved to be handy for us.
DSC02255.jpg


the picture is a little misleading
can make a more close picture when somebody wants more detail.
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Thats a cool looking fender basket on your deck Bart.....:D
 
DougH said:
I have a Sunseeker Manhattan 60 which has plenty of fender stowage, but all we do is leave the fenders attached and lay them on the side decks when underway.

The only time we need to go to the bow is when we approach port or enter a Cala (anchorage).

We then slow down to below 5 knots and put the fenders over the sides without any stress etc.

Some people may say it looks naff with the fenders deployed whilst at anchor but not everyone in the anchorage is competent at close quarters boat anchoring, so who cares.
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We do the same. We can't be arsed to lift and stow fenders every time we leave port unless the sea state is dodgy. I've bought fenders specifically sized so that they wedge nicely between the handrail stanchions and the superstructure laying on the side decks. Like you we deploy fenders down one side when at anchor to ease access to the foredeck; I don't care if people think it looks naff and as you say, they offer protection if another boat drags or swings on to you
 
I use elastic shock cord with a jamming cleat.
takes seconds to secure and seconds to deploy.

I also have plastic clips fastened with cable ties to the fender rope.
Fenders are set to 'low' and dropped over the side after un cleating the shock cord.

If I want the fenders 'high' it takes seconds to hook the rope on the wire.

The shock cord can be fastened to the rail as shown here or we have 4 loose.
The plastic clip is just visible half way down on the fender rope.

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DougH said:
I have a Sunseeker Manhattan 60 which has plenty of fender stowage, but all we do is leave the fenders attached and lay them on the side decks when underway.

The only time we need to go to the bow is when we approach port or enter a Cala (anchorage).

We then slow down to below 5 knots and put the fenders over the sides without any stress etc.

Some people may say it looks naff with the fenders deployed whilst at anchor but not everyone in the anchorage is competent at close quarters boat anchoring, so who cares.
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Yep, we do exactly the same.

Never a problem and always ready for a close quarter situation too - case need!
 
I have a similar system to BartW....have tied about 15cms of 3mm sailing type cord to the bottom of each fender and then fastened a small plastic hook to the end of the cord. The crew then just pull up the fenders, grab the cord, loop it around the guard rail and then use the plastic hook to clip back onto the cord again. Fenders sit horizontally outside the guard rail, are out of the way, look tidy and are easy to deploy quickly if necessary. Works a treat!
 
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