Knots for Fenders - Tips & Tricks 

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Great job helping the boating community. We are trying to do the same. Keep up the great work.

A clove hitch is fast, but also the number one reason fenders are lost while the boat is unattended because any movement and jostling can work the knot loose. When leaving the boat for longer periods, and especially if the boat is moving around at the dock, use a round turn and two half hitches.

Super simple! Thank you

Do knows long enough you meet people who do a knot you invent. Or better there invented it in their time on the other side of the world. That's Owesome!

Excellent

Nice!

I only use the quick release hitch on the boat fenders and all the ladies bikini's. When we get away from the dock, I quickly remove them all, no need for the fenders, or bikinis.

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nice. Many thanks.

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Clove hitch on slip. Best knot. I use it.

Love clove hitch but I put half hitch on rail with loop, so if line is pulled accidentally finder won't be lost overboard in wake!

In my opinion, if you're adding hitches to the cleat, go ahead and add your half hitch to the clove hitch. I would never be so pressed for time that I used just slip Clove

On that slipping clove hitch, shoot through the I with the end of the line to prevent someone slipping it

On the slipping hitch I put the loose tail through the loop so there is now way the knot can be accidentally dislodged but everything is still able to be speedily removed

I do clove hitch with a slipped halfhitch next to it on the rail, while approaching the dock.

Will this work for holding the fenders onto my car?

Better to finish the clove hitch with a half hitch else risk losing fenders in choppy marinas.

The welds on that railing are something...

What about the knot at the actual fender end? Figure of eight? Round turn and two half hitches? What do you suggest?

0:28 what are you going to do if docking line already attached to this cleat? for example in small boats you have to share cleat.

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I just use a festoosh.

What would be wrong with a taut-line hitch? It's adjustable! Slip it for adjusting and a quick release but not for security. Don't slip it, make an extra turn or two and follow it with a figure-8 for security and only a moment or two to adjust it.

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0:40 I know nothing about popup cleats, but there is no way that ugly mess is the 'right way'.

round turn 2 hitches is missing! Clove hitch benefits from safety-figure-8 should it wiggle lose, it will at least not get lost.

interesting demonstration. slip clove for fender agteed. the use of your cleat is comical. A cleat of any sort is full wrap with 1 complete figure 8, this is proper and will hold. If you are showing a figure 8 with 2nd wrap wrapped under in line with flow of line. NOT wrapped back on top creaking a " hurricane hitch" which when pulled tight may require an axe to get loose. If you need more secured cleating. Wrap line around cleat 2-3 times than a standard figure 8. Dont believe me try, this method is not only safe, able to get undone quickly but will hold tonnage.

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All knots are ok. Not wriong as you say

Clove hitch, slipping close hitch yes.. pop up cleat .. wrong.... a simple cleat hit comes off faster and less likely to jam

The proper way to dress the clove hitch is to continue around the bar at the end, not leave it hang down. 😬

If the view was from the perspective of the person tying the knot and not a third party it would have been a lot more useful

Mastworp.

A hitch and a knot are not interchangeable names.

clove hitch really is a bad knot for fenders. ones it is tight it is over (Just a matter of time if fenders are working)

if you think thats how to use a cleat ,,, keep at it , on toy Tupperware boats it may be fun , in the real world its about as funny as the coils that people make out of rope on the pontoons.

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