GL: Fender Boards

[fred]

Gene and Kathy,

I've been on the Erie and Champlain Canals for the last 2
months, and will be here the rest of the summer.  I've seen a few boats with
boards over their fenders, and it looks to me like a good way to get tangled.
My suggestion is to use large ball fenders, minimum 18" just below your rail,
plus have a couple of tube fenders that you can drop right down to the
water-line.

The large ball fenders will take care of any rough areas, and
for the locks that have very low walls when full, the low tube fenders are
just the thing.

Ball fenders give you are greater distance between your
boat and the wall.  The low-slung tube fenders won't slip upwards in the locks
where you have only a foot of wall above the water and sometimes the wall
tilts away from the boat on certain low-walled locks.

Whatever you do,
forget about hay-bale fenders!

Fred
Tug 44
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From: Gspinazola at aol.com
Sent:
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 4:49 AM
To: great-loop at lists.samurai.com
Subject:
GL: Fender Boards 

When doing the Erie and Champlain do we need Frnder
Boards or are Fenders  
enough?

Gene and Kathy
Northern Cross
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