Fenders in Fenders Out?

[doug748]

That's a sign of a boat without decent lockers, (so lots of berths), and a need for lots of fenders. Aka a charter boat, especially if the crew are all wearing lifejackets.

Interesting point. I had not really considered it, thinking the dangling fenders were all about convenience. I carry up to 10 fenders, in lockers, on a boat which has been unfairly traduced, on these channels, as "pokey". I guess the lockers on bigger boats are all filled with deck chairs and push bikes.


"Good grief! Fender snobbery now......whatever next?"........


.....Mind you the prolapsed hemeroids hanging from the back help to divert attention from the fabric garden shed over the cockpit.

 

[prv]

Good grief! Fender snobbery now......whatever next?

Well, it's not a new thing, having been raised to it all my life by my parents and grandparents

Pete

 

[snooks]

'specially if the boat's a Sadler 32, the smallest side deck in the world!

Not compared to a lot of the boats I've been on

At least I have roome to stow everything in my lockers

Has anyone else seen the Southerly in Chichester Harbour that has more fenders than room to tie them all?

 

[toad_oftoadhall]

What are your views?

No right answer, no wrong answer. Individual choice.

 

[LadyInBed]

That's a sign of a boat without decent lockers, (so lots of berths), and a need for lots of fenders. Aka a charter boat, especially if the crew are all wearing lifejackets.

In my case not so in all respects. Mine go into the fender baskets on the stern quarters, as they would clutter the workshop (where they are stored when I wrap up the boat to go home).

 

[Supine Being]

I stick two in the locker, which is all I can fit given that the dinghy is also in there. The other four are tied on the back but dangling inside, not outside, as they make fairly comfortable back rests What anyone else thinks, I care not a jot.

 

[RobbieH]

No you're not - there are standards !! The plus side is that I seem to have a steady supply of replacement fenders and I haven't had to actually BUY one in years.

Serious question though; do people dangle their fenders over the back because they're feeling lazy and it's easiest, or because with a lot of boats the aft cabin(s) take up what was previously locker space and there's nowhere else?

Lazarette is full with 4 fenders, warps, kedge chain and two spare 20 litre jerrycans of diesel. No other cockpit lockers (two quarterberths) so if I am carrying extra fuel on passage then two fenders get tied to the pulpit, other wise they all go in the lazarette. Not a fan of storing wet and possibly weed-smeared fenders below.

So in my case guess the answer is b/

 

[RupertW]

Lazarette is full with 4 fenders, warps, kedge chain and two spare 20 litre jerrycans of diesel. No other cockpit lockers (two quarterberths) so if I am carrying extra fuel on passage then two fenders get tied to the pulpit, other wise they all go in the lazarette. Not a fan of storing wet and possibly weed-smeared fenders below.

So in my case guess the answer is b/

You've seen the contents of my boat from your description. Add in the liferaft, gas bottles, endless snorkels flippers and masks, ropes, DIY bits and bobs, Lilo, oars and outboard petrol tank then fenders have nowhere to go but on the side decks or stern.

 

[RobbieH]

You've seen the contents of my boat from your description. Add in the liferaft, gas bottles, endless snorkels flippers and masks, ropes, DIY bits and bobs, Lilo, oars and outboard petrol tank then fenders have nowhere to go but on the side decks or stern.

Obviously you have a lazar rather than a lazarette

 

[RupertW]

Obviously you have a lazar rather than a lazarette

I was being a bit loose with our similariaties - it's two wide but very shallow cockpit lockers - we have a walk-through stern so alas no lazar...

They still need a good sort out of course but Ill never do enough to squeeze fenders in too

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Oi, Snooks, U clocking our boat!

Not compared to a lot of the boats I've been on

At least I have roome to stow everything in my lockers

Has anyone else seen the Southerly in Chichester Harbour that has more fenders than room to tie them all?

Yep, We own it!
You'll be grateful when your're rafted to us in a blow sometime

anyway, we have saddlebags for most of them on the back, apart from 'BIG BERTHA' and 'LIttle Bertha' on the rear deck, and the ball fenders/wave breakers in the front- v useful in th Alderney Race at times

 

[snooks]

Yep, We own it!

I don't think it was a Southerly 115, looked more like a 38 or 42 with a light blue hull. Chap driving had a captains hat on. Fenders all around her from pullpit to pullpit

 

[dylanwinter]

Fenders - definitive

I now have some rules - strangely enough courtesy of sailing anarchy

"Fenders MUST be attached to stanchion bases, or a convenient deck pad-eye, with a round turn and two half hitches only. Clockwise turns (viewed from above) are always required. A clove hitch is just wrong. On leaving the dock, as soon as the stern clears any obstruction (as and when hailed by the skipper), fenders are to be brought smartly inboard to lie on the deck, before untying. Hoistage inboard must be as simultaneous as possible, on the hailed command "fenders in". All crew must ensure that once inboard, the fenders lie on deck in an orderly row, head forward, tail aft, and report immediately to the skipper any variance. If you have six available crew, and six fenders, this is easily achieved within at most a half-boatlength from the dock. With a smaller crew, a fender-retrieval plan must of course be worked out and documented in advance to ensure that all fenders are inboard and laid on deck in their prescribed (and preferably pre-marked) positions no more than one boatlength from the dock. Then on the command "stow fenders", each fender is to be released from its stanchion and carried (head up again) to its allocated stowage location, as previously notified to all crew and drilled in advance. This location is recorded in the ship's Fender Planning and Enforcement documentation. Two fenders may be so carried by a crewmember, one in each hand, but no more. If the crewmember is deemed in advance by the skipper to be incapable of carrying two fenders at the same time, due to age, decrepitude or excess intake of stimulants, then backup plan "Y" is to be enforced, in which the crewmember's other-watch counterparty may temporarily deposit one of his own fenders (again in its pre-planned interim location) and assist the incapacitated crewmember by relieving him of half his load and carrying it to stowage. Inserting a glass of Mount Gay and Tonic into the incapacitated crewmember's now free hand is an optional step.

P_***

 

[Wansworth]

This is all documented in a thesis which covers fear of public ridicule and acceptance by a student in a lesser well known mid west universcity,Basically fenders say it all.The fenders supplied the perfect metaphore.