Do you run with fenders deployed?

[Codger2]

Mark wrote;

I see Perla is w/o shoes. I do hope your investments haven't gone south.

Now, that's funny! Short & very funny!

 

[Phil Fill]

I was once told that running with your fenders out is like walking around with your fly down.

I walk around with my fly down a lot also. No big deal as long as its not hanging out. I Know! TMI.

 

[bfloyd4445]

I walk around with my fly down a lot also. No big deal as long as its not hanging out. I Know! TMI.

I do the same and a nurse asked me once if i was trolling. True incident that happened just after Sparks Family Hospital opened and i was working on an electrical problem that came up.
at first i gave her a blank look untill she mentioned my zipper was down

 

[Rambler]

I do the same and a nurse asked me once if i was trolling. True incident that happened just after Sparks Family Hospital opened and i was working on an electrical problem that came up.
at first i gave her a blank look untill she mentioned my zipper was down

But she looked at the bait. :lol:

 

[bfloyd4445]

But she looked at the bait. :lol:

yep, that was a 2am on the seventh floor with only one patient so there were available beds

 

[Adelaide]

GBs look good/handsome to me. What's your idea of a good-looking boat?

Yeah, I love my Taiwan Trawler and I certainly love the looks of his Grand Banks. To each his own, I guess.

As far as the subject goes....we are guilty of forgetting to pull them in from time to time.

 

[Besslb]

Okay, but what is the proper fender deployment for boatyard use?? This guy could have at least deployed them all at the same length!!

 

[Rambler]

Two for the upper dock, and two for the lower dock?

 

[Chuck Gould]

Okay, but what is the proper fender deployment for boatyard use?? This guy could have at least deployed them all at the same length!!

Proper for boatyard use, in my opinion, would be no fenders at all. They get hung up in the straps on the Travelift, and those fenders hanging down have to be a nuisance if pressure washing or painting the bottom.

 

[Marin]

As we don't know what the boat is in the yard for, it's hard to determine the reasoning behind the fenders. However we have seen boats in the Seaview yard in our marina that are being washed for the customer. If fenders are tied "permanently" to rails or cleats, the guy doing the washing simply puts them over the side when it comes time to wash the deck and cabin sides and the boats look like the photo posted above.

 

[rwidman]

Run with fenders deployed? - Sure, here's a photo:

 

[Moonstruck]

Run with fenders deployed? - Sure, here's a photo:

Now I know why some call them "bumpers".

 

[Baker]

I didn't have time to read all of the posts. But we call them "Gypsy beads"!!! Because that is exactly what they look like when they are dangling from the side of the boat while underway.

 

[Ruthless]

gauche! Now that really hurt. When on Lake Union and on our dock we are the token white trash as most of the boat were meg a bucks, and we are a professed/confirmed dock queen condo. However, the Eagle is an ugly old classic trawler, so we tell them, that the way they did it back then. Heck most boats are not old enough to remember and/or if they are, they can not remember!

OK so I forget once in a while.

We are at a similar dock, we had t shirts made up that say "Trawler Trash", and we actually use the boat for cruising and captain it ourselves :

 

[FlyWright]

You mean like this?

 

[bfloyd4445]

Run with fenders deployed? - Sure, here's a photo:

thats a good idea when you are speeding home dead tired and weaving all over like i so often see on the interstate. The bumpers kinda protect your boat from the trucks if one gets a bit close. Why didnt i think of this

 

[markpierce]

You mean like this?

Al, that's not fair! I was just leaving the berth and hadn't even exited the marina yet.

 

[Baker]

 

[markpierce]

If anyone is wondering why I've so many fenders: they haven't observed my docking attempts.

 

[bfloyd4445]

If anyone is wondering why I've so many fenders, they haven't observed my docking attempts.

attempts??? Should only take one try. Why do you think they have ruber on the edge of the slip? your suppose to just point er in the general direction of the slip then goose er a bit kick it outa gear and wait till she stopped rattling around before disembarking. Most important to take her outa gear.

 

[markpierce]

... Why do you think they have rubber on the edge of the slip? ...

To make white streaks on my dark hull.

 

[FlyWright]

Al, that's not fair! I was just leaving the berth and hadn't even exited the marina yet.

Yes, that was a cheap shot....but I couldn't resist!! mea culpa

 

[rwidman]

............. Why do you think they have ruber on the edge of the slip? ......... .

To put black marks on your hull. Stationary black rubber and a moving boat are a bad combination and the dock always wins.

 

[Daddyo]

This guy in Ft Pierce yesterday thought it was a good idea

 

[bfloyd4445]

To make white streaks on my dark hull.

Proof you are berthing your boat as in my description posted here by rattleing around on your way in

 

[bfloyd4445]

To put black marks on your hull. Stationary black rubber and a moving boat are a bad combination and the dock always wins.

they can be a bear to remove. Not that i have ever rubbed the dock hard enough to leave marks but i have helped others

Sometimes the rubber kind of like vulcanoize to the gelcoat.

 

[Art]

A mention...

Soft, durable, good looking, and easy to keep clean cloth stockings on fenders virtually eliminate fender marks on any color or material hull.

Lucky for us, at our dock, the roof support posts have white vertical rubber runners for our gunwales rub rail to contact if a bump, rub, or bounce situation were ever to occur (which of course never happens! – lol ).

 

[Rambler]

If anyone is wondering why I've so many fenders: they haven't observed my docking attempts.

Mark: I see three fenders, and two balls.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to see those.

 

[Phil Fill]

There is nothing wrong running dirty if the water is calm and the bumpers are hanging in the water. When moored on Lake Union for 12 years we ran dirty until we got though the locks going west, and though the University cut until Lake Washington. So I don’t think about takeing them in until we are in open water.

We invest rubber/plastic dock rub/protection and 8 round bumpers left on the dock, However, we still sometimes mark the hull, which is no big deal as I can rub out/repair quickly, which is the reason I use cheap Brightside which is easy to match. But that is one of the nice things of having a ugly old trawler as bang/marks just make it look meaner/used. We have a new neighbor across from us a 70+ ft old ocean tug from Alaska that has tires permanently mounted. The more I look at then, the more I think that is not a bad idea. Except I would use white wall tires. I mean we don’t want to look to trashy!

 

[BaltimoreLurker]

Mark: I see three fenders, and two balls.

Maybe I wasn't supposed to see those.

Please! We'll have no ball walking around here!