Neat ideas... perpetual

[tonybarebones]

You can leave your fenders where they are by simply adding a plastic hook to the bottom of the fender, then all you need do is hook the fender on to the guardwire, you never need to keep adjusting them and they are always ready for use, this also frees up space in you deck locker... WoW... thats a neat idea... does anyone have a neat idea to pass on I wonder? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Jobs_a_ good_ un]

Good idea but little tip 4 you put them down when along side a pontoon like that /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Csail]

We have done that for years tony apart from we use caribenas.

 

[Csail]

Posh fenders, where did you buy them? Good idea having different types for various surfaces.

 

[buster3]

like this how many do you want, speak to rich [image]http://

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[Wunja]

I found 4 in the skip last week. Cleaned up OK with the pressure washer.
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[damo]

Fender tip 2....put the boat's name on them, so when staff fish them out from the downwind end of the marina they no longer have an excuse to kit out their own boats with them /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif


And for a little quiz /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Behind the boat in buster3's pic are two posts on the clifftop. What are they used for? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[NJMcK]

Measured mile?

 

[Wunja]

Aerial runway? - Leading lights seems too obvious.

 

[damo]

One end of the measured mile on Lundy IIRC

 

[zlod]

Is that boat attached to one of the new mooring buoys on Lundy? Do they keep them there through the winter?

I saw some interesting looking landing craft for getting ashore at Lundy at the Earls Court boat show (Luftkajak inflatable kayaks) and Lundy's next on the circumnavigation list

 

[damo]

Dunno about the bouy - it's easier to anchor closer in, with more room to get away in the dark with the tide /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[zlod]

Damo> We'd need to get more confident with that anchoring business. The goal of going ashore would be to tick some classic climbs, run round the island and then retire for some refreshment at the Marisco Tavern. I'd like to be confident that Cervisia is still there after all that (can't concentrate on the climbing when I'm worried that my boat is floating away!). Although it seems unstylish, I feel more confident with those mooring buoys than with my anchor.

 

[Gwylan]

As Damo says, close in is a nice sheltered anchorage with good holding. Not too near the landing point or the reflected waves mean you get a bumpy night! Well we did and that was the only reason that I could make up to stop the crew blaming me.

 

[damo]

Anchor further up by the quarry then (no anchoring beyond that - it's the no-take zone). Usually no-one else around, the fishing is better, and there is a steep path up from the rocky beach. It brings you into the north end of the "village", and is generally a lot quicker and shorter for most of the climbing areas. It's more problematic at LW because you have to negotiate some weedy boulders - but my aged mam managed it /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif