GL: Using Fender Boards on the T-Tom and Tennessee

[Jeffrey Siegel]

> What would be the purpose of a fender board? 
> Why would anyone bother with them?

I'm not crazy-in-love with fender boards but I did make up a set and I
have used them.  I think they're pretty helpful if you're in a high tide
area (New England for example) and are coming against a non-floating
dock with pilings.  In that case, using a long fender board against two
vertical fenders gives you, in effect, a very wide wooden fender.  As
the tide comes and goes, the boat will move but the pilings will stay
against the fender board.

The other alternative is to put normal fenders sideways.  But if there's
a good tide swing, the line up with the pilings will quickly become a
miss and you'll be adjusting things all night long.

This isn't a great picture of it but I am using them here:
http://www.activecaptain.com/images/Cuttyhunk.jpg

It was in Cuttyhunk, MA.  I had two set of them out against 4 fenders.
It worked pretty well.


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Jeffrey Siegel
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Castine, Maine

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