r/sailing • u/billfuckingsmith • Jun 20 '24
Impress the skipper next time you tie up a bumper.
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u/the-montser Jun 20 '24
I am more impressed when people tie their fenders at the correct height. This looks like a fantastic way to have them dragging around in the water.
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u/bryangcrane Jun 20 '24
We call 'em the Hollywood Yacht Club in Southern California/ Catalina, but yeah, I like Bakersfield Navy as well. :-)
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u/CapableStatus5885 Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
Impressive. But it can be tied the normal way easier and a slip put in it if desired
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u/wadenelsonredditor Jun 20 '24
Stratocaster?
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u/colei_canis Jun 20 '24
Always been more of a Telecaster fan personally.
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u/tokenschmoken Jun 20 '24
So you call fenders bumpers? And you call bumpers on cars fenders? Interesting
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u/penkster Jun 20 '24
When I started sailing again after a long break, the skipper of the boat i was crewing on heard me call it a bumper and basically stopped dead "Fender. Those are fenders. Don't call them bumpers."
There was a hush in the air and I felt like something important had just happened....
"Yes sir."
I've never used the term on the water since.
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u/Emergency-Doughnut88 Jun 21 '24
My understanding is that if it's attached to the boat it's a fender, if it's attached to the dock it's a bumper
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u/penkster Jun 21 '24
I had not heard this definition - but the Interwebz seem to agree with you.
Fenders are on the boat, while bumpers are on the dock. Same job, different approach.
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u/JohnWalton_isback Jun 20 '24
Skipper ain't paying attention, he's got doritos to eat and hentai to watch.
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u/anynamesleft Jun 20 '24
That's nice, but awful slow.
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u/penkster Jun 20 '24
What you didn't hear the six million dollar man sound while he was doing it? "Chk chk chkc hkchkkkkkkkk"
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u/Only-Bonus4898 Jun 21 '24
I work on the upper Mississippi River I have made a crap ton of bumpers of all shapes and sizes. Not that big of a deal
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u/Le_r0ubl4rd Jun 26 '24
The video captured the 82nd attempt, make the viewer thinking that guy is skilled when it's just luck and not something that should be done in reality because of the random outcome.
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u/billfuckingsmith Jun 26 '24
I don't think anyone here was suggesting this is literally a good way to tie a clove hitch..
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u/wadenelsonredditor Jun 20 '24
GF sez he's a very knotty boy.
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Jun 20 '24
Yeah I am reminded of being a broke boy scout so all we had was rope to practice knot tying and how that changed the trajectory of my life drastically
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u/DigitalTomcat Jun 20 '24
This is the old cowboy trick. But I never saw it in slow motion before. In an old cowboy movie, you see them ride up to the saloon, jump off the horse and it looks like they just toss the reins at the hitching rail. They’re actually doing this - a quick clove hitch; the more the horse pulls at it, the tighter it gets. And, of course, easy to undo - if you have thumbs.
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u/BrotherPlasterer Jun 20 '24
Funny how cowboys are always riding up to saloons. Like they never visit town for anything else?
Just once I'd like to see them hitch the horse up in front of, oh, a florist for example.
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u/Plastic_Table_8232 Jun 20 '24
You’re missing the fact that the brothel was on top the saloon.
What do you look for when you hit the shore after a long passage?
Food is the last thing on my list and I really like food.
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u/wlll Oyster 435, '90 Jun 21 '24
What do you look for when you hit the shore after a long passage?
Is it the florist?
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u/infield_fly_rule Jun 20 '24
Call it a fender and I’ll be impressed
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u/billfuckingsmith Jun 21 '24
Maybe he's tying that line to the dock, and it's a bumper? Na, it's a fender, I stand corrected. Let the beating begin.
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u/blogito_ergo_sum Pacific Northwest Jun 21 '24
Y'all're tying fenders on with clove hitches?
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u/billfuckingsmith Jun 21 '24
Have been for many years. Haven't lost one yet.
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u/blogito_ergo_sum Pacific Northwest Jun 21 '24
Interesting! I have never tried it myself; club policy here seems to be twice-round-and-two-half-hitches
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u/ETVG Jun 21 '24
yes with a loop for easy undoing, been doing it for decades, except with this one skipper that didn't allow the loop
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u/mikemclovin S/V Sommar C28 Jun 21 '24
Per the ASA the proper knot for a fender is a round turn and two half hitches. But a clove hitch is a quick easy knot for crap you don’t mind losing I guess.
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u/euph_22 Irwin 33 Jun 20 '24
And then the fender is floating 5 feet from the boat...