> I also HATE the Clove Hitch used to tie Fenders or to mooring Bollards. > Around here we call the Clove the "River Gods Joy".. because it gives them > SO many fenders as they fall off rails and lifelines > Another Simple knot, the Pedigreed Cow hitch .. is SOOOOOO much better. > Just simply running the bitter end back into the loops ..(Picture on > request)
consider this the request then: our first Chesapeake Bay Boyz raft-up I forgot to pull the 4 BRAND SPANKING NEW FENDERS in when we left the dock, and they ended up floating somewhere in the crab-pot mine field just inside the Patapsco at Gibson Island. I thought I would never hear the end of it! (and now that I have brought it up again......) Deb
