Tender Fender - Advice Please

Tam Lin

Tam Lin

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What can I put around the wooden rubbing strake at the top of my GRP tender so that I don't mark the lovely new paint on my topsides when I go alongside my boat on its swinging mooring? Any ideas welcome, the cheaper the better! Thanks.
 
A rubber fender strip will e better, but nothing will completely protect the topsides. Probably the best way is to hang a fender blanket and fenders over the rail of the yacht and use the fenders to hold the dinghy off.

Rob.
 
Heating pipe insulation.

tenderonbeach.jpg
 
Lakesailor said:
Heating pipe insulation.

tenderonbeach.jpg
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It doesn't look up to the standard of the last boats you sent me, they were examples of painted hulls as I was asking about the best technique to use. In the end I used a foam radiator roller for gloss paint and got a nice finish. Went out to the boat yesterday and made some marks on it - should have known better! It is just possible to read the sign behind the tender in your pic, "Private property, strictly no landing." Can't read the smaller print though.

Tillergirl - I didn't know about the place in Tollesbury, thanks!
 
I have some plastic irigation pipe screwed around the gunwhale of my tender but actually I make the little boat pristine in winter and end up repainting touching up by the next winter. If it is not my tender often it is someone else's or I have banged up next to a jetty or something similar. I figure you can't get to fussy about the topsides of a well used boat. olewill
 
Tam Lin said:
It doesn't look up to the standard of the last boats you sent me, they were examples of painted hulls as I was asking about the best technique to use. In the end I used a foam radiator roller for gloss paint and got a nice finish. Went out to the boat yesterday and made some marks on it - should have known better! It is just possible to read the sign behind the tender in your pic, "Private property, strictly no landing." Can't read the smaller print though.
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Luckily, I have a license (sic)

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The foam survived 5years and was still in reasonable condition when the new owner took it off to North Wales.
I did set about a refurb, but decided against it as the patchy paint gave the impression the boat was a wreck, and that matters when there are joy-riders about.
 
Minn said:
A three inch coir rope - Des Pawson in Ipswich will supply and teach you how to fit it perfectly (there is a trick).

http://www.despawson.com/index.html

Des & Liz Pawson
501 Wherstead Rd
Ipswich
Suffolk IP2 8LL
UK

Telephone +44 (0)1473 690090



I have found this both lighter and more durable than rubber fendering.
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Went to his website which directed me to Classic Marine who only sell 40mm rope or 1 and a half inches.
 
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