Cool, but clove hitch still works well for me. Although I’ve noticed that it’s time to replace some of the ropes this spring. (And one or two of the dock lines took a beating over the winter. Preventable chafe.) I’ve about come to the end of the coil of nylon three-strand that came with the boat - that still what everyone is using to hang fenders? I think I’d better whip the ends this time instead of using tape.
And how many fenders? When I was new to the boat (and so was my slip-neighbor) I hung fenders all around on just about every stanchion. But that was a lot of work, so now I usually just hang two on the stanchions nearest the beam, on the side that I intend to dock. The new slip-neighbor seems much better at boat-handling, and anyway his boat is much more expensive than mine.
