Recycling: Silence is golden: tyre shock absorbers

[Jamesuk]

Just added two more at 3am this morning and i now have a boat that is just rocking around, i can hear other noises apposed to snatching three strand on mooring cleats now in the 45 knot gusts this evening.

I would highly recommend them, if only they came in white.

Easy set up too, if your buying no more than £1.50 per tyre as that is the charge they add when you get your tyres replaced incase you ever wondered what the squiggle next to £1.50 was the last time you had your tyres replaced.

Sleep

 

[Reptile Smile]

I agree, though they left enormous circular black marks on the side of my boat which I was less a fan of...

 

[BrianH]

I agree, though they left enormous circular black marks on the side of my boat which I was less a fan of...

It took ages to clean the carbon black - the constituent of the average tyre that colours them black - off my topsides after nuzzling the ones they hang over the pontoons at the refuelling dock in Zadar, Croatia. Without a canvas bag to contain them don't even think about them as fenders unless you have black topsides or are a grubby old work boat.

The same with those excellent rubber ship buckets, made in Spain from reconstituted tyres, when drawing water from alongside, don't let them swing in against the topsides unless you enjoy a few hours work in the dinghy scrubbing off the black streaks.

 

[Gordonmc]

I was taken with the fenders used on the dive boats in Egypt.
Basically, tyres with covers made up of different coloured 10mm polyprop rope, macramé style.
Each one must have used a load of rope, but its cheap as chips.
A job for someone.