Fenders - Let's have a heated debate.

Windfinder · Post by **Windfinder** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:53 am

Why do people get so het up when they see another boat with fenders out. Does it really matter? My answer to that question - NO!

Post by **Nick** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:15 am

Does it really matter? My answer to that question - NO!

Symbolic of everything that is wrong with our society today IMO.

Rowana · Post by **Rowana** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:22 am

Nick wrote:
Does it really matter? My answer to that question - NO!
Symbolic of everything that is wrong with our society today IMO.

Do you mean not being bothered is what's wrong, or the fact that people leave their fenders out?

sahona · Post by **sahona** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:29 pm

Yes.
OK, I'm one of THEM.....could be values set in the dim and distant past.
It just seems wrong to me. Unsightly, and bad seamanship, but that's just an opinion.
Then the owners wonder why "there don't seem to be as many now as when we started", and those that remain have lanyards that resemble frayed pyjama cords.
I'm mortified when I find one dangling when it should be stowed.
Having shown my colours, I now expect to be shouted at when I miss one!
Mustn't give it if I can't take it.

Clyde_Wanderer · Post by **Clyde_Wanderer** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:04 pm

Would there be any excuse for someone setting out single handed and probably not able to leave the cockpit in order to get to fenders, if, say they dident have any autohelm unit etc?

ljs · Post by **ljs** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:10 pm

Windfinder wrote:Why do people get so het up when they see another boat with fenders out. Does it really matter? My answer to that question - NO!

Should they be renamed 'offenders'?

Telo · Post by **Telo** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:17 pm

Completely unnecessary unless you're burning coal, imho.

Rowana · Post by **Rowana** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:31 pm

Shard wrote:Completely unnecessary unless you're burning coal, imho.

More Steam, McPhail ! !

Clyde_Wanderer · Post by **Clyde_Wanderer** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:18 pm

ljs wrote:
Windfinder wrote:Why do people get so het up when they see another boat with fenders out. Does it really matter? My answer to that question - NO!
Should they be renamed 'offenders'?

By the time the forum are finnished with them they will be 'Defenders'

sahona · Post by **sahona** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:11 pm

ljs wrote:
Should they be renamed O'Fenders?

There'll be a few down your way then?

ljs · Post by **ljs** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:34 pm

sahona wrote:
ljs wrote:
Should they be renamed O'Fenders?
There'll be a few down your way then?

Sure, they're all RE O'Fenders down here.

sahona · Post by **sahona** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:38 pm

Practice makes perfect...

Alcyone · Post by **Alcyone** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:17 pm

I would positively encourage people to sail with their fenders out.

I've only found 6 walking the beaches down here in Wales this winter, and I don't yet have a matching set.

Windfinder · Post by **Windfinder** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:12 pm

Alcyone wrote:I've only found 6 walking the beaches down here in Wales this winter, and I don't yet have a matching set.

Ahhhhh, down here in the South we tie them to the boat. That's why we're all rich and porridgewogs(tm) are all poor!

Yes, I've been drinking...

...and I'm just jealous because you PWs(tm) all live in paradise, and I don't.

Marmalade · Post by **Marmalade** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:40 am

Have to confess - if we're just out for an hour or two on the river eg in wintertime we don't bother stowing - for longer trips they go in the locker

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