Your best tip for squeaky fender buoys?

Karlsenkystfiske said:
I am sure we have all been there at one time or another: You are safely moored up in a quiet haven, about to get some quality shut-eye. Then it starts. Unrhytmic squeaking of various pitches and uneven loudness. Your fenders are not so gracefully touching against the wooden dock poles or tire fenders. What do you do? I often give them a ´good shower of WD40. It is thin oil so it covers them real fast. But perhaps not the most enviromentaly friendly thing to be spraying all around? Also, other guest might not enjoy the smell of it :)
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Use a fender bender
 
The complete fendering kit for all occasions must include fenders with and without socks, large ball fenders, a fender 'skirt' or 'apron' to go between your hull and the fenders, and a fender plank to go between your fenders and a pile or wall.
 
B27 said:
The complete fendering kit for all occasions must include fenders with and without socks, large ball fenders, a fender 'skirt' or 'apron' to go between your hull and the fenders, and a fender plank to go between your fenders and a pile or wall.
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Do you have pictures of this plank setup?
I might invest in a couple of socks!
 
Karlsenkystfiske said:
Do you have pictures of this plank setup?
I might invest in a couple of socks!
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Fender plank sounds simple enough, just a plank with a couple of ropes attached, one in each upper corner. I have experienced one of the ropes wearing through on rough concrete so to avoid this mine has two one-inch diameter holes drilled through at the top corners, then two the same diameter as the rope drilled through from the top edge to meet them. The knots are then enclosed and the rope cannot wear between plank and wall.
 
vyv_cox said:
Fender plank sounds simple enough, just a plank with a couple of ropes attached, one in each upper corner. I have experienced one of the ropes wearing through on rough concrete so to avoid this mine has two one-inch diameter holes drilled through at the top corners, then two the same diameter as the rope drilled through from the top edge to meet them. The knots are then enclosed and the rope cannot wear between plank and wall.
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Picture or it didnt happen!
 
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