Fenders

No sailing this past weekend with pretty wet and dreary weather. I spent Saturday fitting horizontal fenders along our marina berth. The main trigger for fitting them was to protect the boat in high winds when Pittwater gets very choppy.

Conventional fenders hanging from the boat seem to "pop out" onto the marina under those conditions. And of course it means that we can come into our berth without hanging the fenders.

One skill which I've acquired since we took delivery of Te Moana last year is splicing ropes. I enjoyed doing all sixteen splices for the four fenders. A really satisfying craft.

Now I'll have to find some other project which requires splicing