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10-23-2022, 10:24 AM
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City: Chicago
Vessel Name: Oma
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogan\Manatee
Join Date: Sep 2016
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Squealing fenders
How do others handle squeaking fenders? The Admiral is complaining it wakes her up at night. We use 24 inch balls because of the shape of the Manatee’s hull.
We are thinking of covers for the balls but we are not sure if the deflating and reinflating a couple of times a year to install the covers would shorten their life.
How have others handled the squeaking and the covering of fenders?
Does anyone have a better idea them covers?
TIA
Paul
KK Manatee ‘OMA’
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10-23-2022, 10:42 AM
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City: Fort Myers, FL... Summers in the Great Lakes
Vessel Name: Slow Hand
Vessel Model: Cherubini Independence 45
Join Date: Dec 2010
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I use fender covers and it definitely make a big difference. Fenders also last longer. My preference for docking is horizontal tubes which tend to move around less.
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10-23-2022, 05:17 PM
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City: Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Vessel Name: Irene
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 40II
Join Date: Jan 2016
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I once read that a small squirt of liquid dish soap will quiet that down. Never tried it.
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MV IRENE
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10-23-2022, 05:32 PM
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City: Stuart FL
Vessel Name: Lucky Lucky
Vessel Model: Pacific Mariner 65
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Quote:
Originally Posted by IRENE
I once read that a small squirt of liquid dish soap will quiet that down. Never tried it.
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It will but not for long.
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Lucky Lucky
Stuart, FL
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10-23-2022, 05:39 PM
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City: Oconto, WI
Vessel Name: Best Alternative
Vessel Model: 36 Albin Aft Cabin
Join Date: Oct 2012
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I have put a shot of cooking oil on the fender.
pete
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10-23-2022, 06:01 PM
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City: SoCal and Vancouver Island
Vessel Name: Tortuga
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 63
Join Date: Aug 2016
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A 24” ball fender would take a lot of dish soap or cooking oil to be effective when it moves around.
If you haven’t washed the fenders lately, try giving it/them a good scrub with soap. Clean plastic sometime squeaks less. Otherwise, fender covers are probably your answer.
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10-23-2022, 06:42 PM
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City: Au Gres, MI
Vessel Name: Black Dog
Vessel Model: Formula 41PC
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 21,189
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I like Spray 9 for cleaning fenders. As to covers you might try a cheap sweatshirt for the 24” ball fender. If you like having a cover then you can spring for something more elegant.
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