[Rhodes22-list] Fenders?

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Dave,
Are you going to be a Herrington Harbor North? From what I've seen of that 
marina, the slips look pretty nice.

We've never had to use fenders in our own slip at Swan Creek. There have 
been a few times in transient slips where we've used them. An example would 
be the Inner Harbor Marina in Baltimore with its floating docks where you 
only tie up on one side. We also use fenders at fuel docks & t-heads and of 
course for raft-ups. We've found that the fenders that Elton was selling 
are far and away the best. They are the Taylor-Made low freeboard fenders 
and are about 23" long and 7" in diameter.

Here's a link to the Taylor-Made page: 
http://www.boatcovers.cc/cgi-bin/catalog.pl?item_id=9  They also show up on 
p 612 of the 2006 West Marine Catalog. If Elton is still selling them, his 
price was a bit better if I recall. I've attached a picture of Fretless 
rafted up with a much larger boat. You can just the fender between the two 
boats. These work so well that we've given up using almost everything else.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Ft. Washington, PA / Rock Hall, MD (Swan Creek)

At 07:49 PM 3/23/2006 -0500, you wrote:

>
>Folks,
>
>We’re getting ready to actually get our boat, it should happen in about 2
>weeks.  It’s going to be tied up at a slip at Harrington Harbour Marina in
>Deale Md with a couple of hundred other boats.
>
>Any advice as to how many of what kind of fenders will work in a typical
>berthing arrangement?  Dimensions?  Round/Flat?
>
>I checked the achieves and gather Elton had some type of neat fender that
>slung over the gunnel, but that was a while ago.  I’ve looked through 
>the  West
>Marine stuff and there are Taylor low freeboard fenders and fence saver
>fenders that might similar to posters were referring to (i.e. appear to 
>sling  over
>the gunnel), but I don’t know.  There are flat fenders and conforming  flat
>fenders. And then there are the good old round cylinders.  And all of  the
>above in a variety of lengths and thicknesses.
>
>What works?
>
>Dave
>
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