Boat Fenders - Recommendations

[Splash]

Hello All.

Can you please recommend choice / brand of Boat Fenders?

What criteria / specification makes a quality Boat Fender?

What size Boat Fender should I acquire?

What type of lanyard/attachment method should I use?

To suite 670C Bar Crusher.



Thank you

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[Noelm]

There is probably no real answer to this, all fenders work, long skinny ones, short fat ones, flat rectangular ones, it’s probably a personal thing, then storage comes into it! Attaching them is a matter of “customising some short rope lengths to suit your boat, and some kind of loop on the end to suit a bollard, or a clip for a rail, it’s just a fool around type thing really.

[Dignity]

There is probably no real answer to this, all fenders work, long skinny ones, short fat ones, flat rectangular ones, it’s probably a personal thing, then storage comes into it! Attaching them is a matter of “customising some short rope lengths to suit your boat, and some kind of loop on the end to suit a bollard, or a clip for a rail, it’s just a fool around type thing really.

Flat ones for tinnies are generally easier to store, so it's horses for courses.

[Splash]

Thanks guys!

[ranmar850]

Don't worry about quality or price, get the cheapest you can find. Cylindrical are one of the easiest to store, your BC should have plenty of wet storage below deck. But the type will be determined by your use, see below. As Dignity said, customise them for rope length for a specific spot. I originally set mine up for the Reefrunner with a loop ( 8mm silver rope) one end, just over a meter of free end on the other eye. The loops were for going through and around cleats. The loose end was if I needed to hang one off a rail. Worked well....until the day the loose end on the front one ( secured by loop to cleat) discovered it was just long enough to catch the front of the tandems coming out of the water Tore the eye through , letting the air out. Do you know that those cheap white BCF jobs can actually be fixed with a hot-melt glue gun? Still going strong three years later.
As to what shape is actually best suited to yoyu, you need to ask yourself what kind of structure you will required to protect the hull from. If it is a jetty, with fixed piles, the cylindrical type might not be thick enough to protect you from the piles. And are difficult to set up unless you string them horizontally. The flat type are best at those, or a larger ball type, although these are harder to store on a small boat. If you coming against a floating pontoon type, with built-in rub rail and cleats, cylindricals or flat are best.
HTH.