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Fender boards?

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Paul J
Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 14:47
The subject of fender boards came up the other day and I wondered if they were necessary at all on the waterways? There are so many stone quay walls, locks etc. that I could see a requirement for carrying and using one, but I can't seem to recall ever seeing one on the few short trips I've done on the Shannon.

Does anyone have any experience or thoughts on the subject?

(To confirm, this is what I'm waffling on about)


Paul
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Mick Farrell
Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 14:57
Hi Paul

I thought the purpose of fender boards was for mooring up against pillars/poles rather than against walls...?? I would think that fenders would be enough against a wall.

M(W&W)F
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Pas Vite / T 15
Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 15:05
used them with the jetties on Windermere / Loch Lomond a few years back with T 15 ( the speedboat below in my signature ) & seen them used against sheet steel interlocking piling on English canals....... never saw the need for them on The Erne or Shannon, think I still have mine ............winking smiley





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Pas Vite / T 15
Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 15:20
just remembered...........would be handy for the jetty at Glassan Hotel & Golf Club, if it has not been updated recently.....winking smiley








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Paul J
Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 15:57
Thanks guys, I can now pass the local builders merchants without eyeing up their scaffolding planks with interest.
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Mick Farrell
Re: Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 16:23
Dont be too hasty there Paul. Scaffolding planks make excellent gang
planks if using the canals or bank mooring in out of the way places....!!

M(W&W)F
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Duncan
Re: Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 16:58
Ordinarily, yes, but some walls are crater ridden, or have protruberances in awkward places.
I've never seen fender boards used, though have seen a few places where they might have been simpler than the other solution...festoon the boat with fenders. Thinking of places like the old Rockingham jetty, or the concrete jetty nearest the bridge, next to the pumps, on the East bank, in Rooskey.
I imagine they'd provide some degree of protection in a bank-mooring situation, too. Sometimes previous visitors leave their mooring pins behind, which can eventually emerge as a hard, pointy bit, sticking out of the nice soft mud bank. Not a problem for you, of course, Mick, but a GRP, or a woody, would see this differently!
Storing them when not in use might be a problem, though.
They don't deflate and store away as easily as spare fenders...

Duncan
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Alun Goodall
Re: Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 17:14
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Mick Farrell
Dont be too hasty there Paul. Scaffolding planks make excellent gang
planks if using the canals or bank mooring in out of the way places....!!

M(W&W)F

Very cheap at present, can be bought between 2 and 4 yo#yos, but beware, you'll probably have to buy a bale of 50, outside ones will be fine, but the dozen in the middle which haven't seen air in 4years (since they were wrapped at the end of the building boom) will be rotten. But still very cheap for what was very high quality stress graded timber for the other 35 or so. You'll see ppl selling them as suitable for garden edging etc.
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Michael Brody
Re: Fender boards?
14 February, 2012 21:33
These fender boards are used by many sailing boats and smaller privare craft on the Canal du Midi particularly when going through the locks. The lock walls have a curve and the board helps to keep to extend the the length of protection offered by the fender.

Michael
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Robert Maitland
Re: Fender boards?
19 February, 2012 11:59
I find that 500mm spherical fenders are more versatile for rough walls. The
only exception I have come across was the pier at Portrunny (now has
additional pontoons) on Lough Ree.

In cases of very high water when the water is almost at jetty level, I
carry an old mini tyre painted emulsion white (no black marks on the
fibreglass). It does not float so it stays part submerged to fend of.

As per other contributors the plank doubles up as a gangway.

Robert M


On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM, IWAI forum Paul J wrote:

> Posted at: [www.iwai.ie]
> Paul J wrote:
>
> The subject of fender boards came up the other day and I wondered if they
> were necessary at all on the waterways? There are so many stone quay walls,
> locks etc. that I could see a requirement for carrying and using one, but I
> can't seem to recall ever seeing one on the few short trips I've done on
> the Shannon.
>
> Does anyone have any experience or thoughts on the subject?
>
> (To confirm, this is what I'm waffling on about)
> [captnpauley.typepad.com]
>
> Paul
>
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