{"id":4641,"date":"2014-09-02T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2014-09-02T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:17:20","slug":"fenders-for-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/fenders-for-tenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenders for Tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Top<\/a>
Top Photo: Acrylic paint may help ease abrasions, but it also helps owners identify a dinghy and shields it from harmful UV rays.
This Photo: Even Captain Crunch cannot harm an old fender that has been split open and secured to the bow (or anywhere else around the dinghy).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strategies for extending the life of your smallest vessel\u00a0 (photo essay published July 2012)<\/p>\n

Inflatable dinghies may look rough and tough, but their skin is thin.<\/p>\n

\"Any<\/a>
Any material secured to the front with small fenders over the side will soften the chafe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Adding protective armor to a tender will ease chafing and help prevent the little boat from developing an odd list when least expected.<\/p>\n

\"Stowed<\/a>
Stowed upside down on deck, the nonskid would sand and grind at the rubber. As a solution, indoor-outdoor carpet was secured with contact cement to the wear areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The good news? Fenders don\u2019t have to be expensive to be effective<\/p>\n

\"Straight<\/a>
Straight out of a 1970s home center, this shag carpet was put to good use and glued to high-chafe areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

. As shown here, nearly anything can shield the skin from sun and scrapes.<\/p>\n

\"<\/a>
Putting all of the armor ideas together, this dinghy looks like it\u2019s ready for a bullfight!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strategies for extending the life of your smallest vessel\u00a0 (photo essay published July 2012) Inflatable dinghies may look rough and tough, but their skin is thin. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[110,66,111],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruising-news","category-gear","tag-dinghies","tag-maintenance","tag-ribs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4656,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions\/4656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}