Rope fender

[tidclacy]

Hi New at this game and wooden boats but hope someone can help.

Am restoring two clinker 12 ft Scows and wanted to fit rope fendering to the wooden rubbing strake. Can anyone advise how to attach these, what is the traditiional method if any?

 

[cliffordpope]

There was a thread on this a while ago. The best method seemed to be to use traditional plastic cable ties, tucked into the lay of the rope so that they did not show.

 

[Mirelle]

Rope Fender - the professional\'s method

There is more to this than meets the eye. The trick, which I learned from Des Pawson, is to insert a small diameter stainless steel wire rope into the middle of the coir rope, work tails on the coir down to the eyes at each end of the wire, stretch it taut round the boat and then secure it with twists of monel siezing wire through the planks of the dinghy and round the wire rope heart.

I recommend contacting Des, who has all the right materials in stock and is happy to demonstrate / explain.

I've been very pleased by the durability of the result.

Des & Liz Pawson
Footrope Knots
501 Wherstead Road
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 8LL
England, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)1473 690 090
knots@footrope.fsnet.co.uk

 

[Toucan13]

Re: Rope Fender - the professional\'s method

Yep....I had Des do a rope fender for me last year using the wire rope trick. I fixed it onto my small tender by tensioning at the stern between the two wire rope eyes, and then finishing off by using plastic tie wraps tucked inside the lay of the rope and then tightened up through small pairs of holes in the gunnels. All looks very neat, and enables me to take off easily (cutting through the tie wraps) to re-varnish or whatever.

 

[ccscott49]

Re: Rope Fender - the professional\'s method

I whipped the ends of the rope, leaviing loops, them tied the ends to, two small eyes, on the transom, I did this to leave a gap, in the transom rope for an outboard. I then worked some short thin pieces of stainless wire, into the rope at intervals, and passed it through small holes (which were already there) in the top strake of the dinghy, twisting them together and hiding the ends behind a stringer. Just above an oak rubbing strip, worked out fine, looks great.