Stern-to mooring

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I've just got back from a flotilla holiday in Greece where I experienced stern-to mooring for the first time. There was no problem with the process because the lead crew was always there to help. The thing that I hadn't anticipated was the amount of noise created by the fenders when our boat was squeezed between two others. Or even just held tight against one other boat. Is this normal? (For information our boat was a 27 footer which was normally moored alongside other boats of the same size or ones about 5 feet longer.)
 
T-shirts from Tesco do the job for Flotilla, get 10 T-shirts for £10 pounds or less. Get them to be fun t-shirts
 
I always make sure I have some Olive Oil on board.
Great for anything that squeaks.

Use it for noisy Squeaky Heads (you know the ones, someone gets up in the middle of the night for a Pee and wakes the boat with pumping the handle)
Use is for Runners on the hatch.
I would say a little on the fenders would of worked.

More curious is how tight you must of been packed in !
 
aquaplane said:
Fairy liquid (other liquid detergents are available) is a fair lubricant for squeeky fenders, and it washes off with water, if you can find any.
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Yes, I'm sure it does the trick but there are some places - including bits of Greece - where you will get into big trouble for using liquid detergent in this way because it is a pollutant.

The olive oil suggestion sounds more sensible, to me.
 
jhr said:
Yes, I'm sure it does the trick but there are some places - including bits of Greece - where you will get into big trouble for using liquid detergent in this way because it is a pollutant.

The olive oil suggestion sounds more sensible, to me.
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In that case I would have to go for the T shirt option. The thought of putting oily fenders back in the locker puts me off. I could always wash them with some liquid detergent before stowing them I suppose.
 
aquaplane said:
In that case I would have to go for the T shirt option. The thought of putting oily fenders back in the locker puts me off. I could always wash them with some liquid detergent before stowing them I suppose.
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:D

Hope I didn't sound sanctimonious - I was just speaking from experience. We were on a flotilla holiday, re-fuelling in Skopelos harbour two or three years back, and the guy filling our tank spilled some diesel into the water. I squirted a bit of Fairy after it, to disperse the resultant slick, and was told off in no uncertain terms, on the basis that adding detergent to diesel was just making the pollution worse........
 
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