New Fendertex fenders arrived

[Carpediem44DB]

I hated having my fenders in baskets on the bow rails so I decided to spend a boat buck on four inflatable fenders and a built in system to inflate them.
Four 31X12 fenders fit nicely in a locker on the bridge along with a built in air hose for easy inflation on the fly. Takes 15 seconds per fender to inflate. Love the new system.

 

[Strecker25]

I hated having my fenders in baskets on the bow rails so I decided to spend a boat buck on four inflatable fenders and a built in system to inflate them.
Four 31X12 fenders fit nicely in a locker on the bridge along with a built in air hose for easy inflation on the fly. Takes 15 seconds per fender to inflate. Love the new system.

Very cool. Do you not use fenders in your home slip? Our new marina doesn’t allow us to attach anything to the dock and the built in rubber leaves marks so I always have fenders deployed, I flip them up over the rail when we leave.

Looks like a great system

 

[Carpediem44DB]

Our marina is very lax so I have a couple of permanent fenders attached on the dock and it’s a down wind side tie so the wind keeps me off the fenders 90 percent of the time. Up side to having a privately run municipal marina. We don’t bitch too much about the poor management because we can pretty much do as we please and most of us just do what is reasonable.

 

[Strecker25]

Our marina is very lax so I have a couple of permanent fenders attached on the dock and it’s a down wind side tie so the wind keeps me off the fenders 90 percent of the time. Up side to having a privately run municipal marina. We don’t bitch too much about the poor management because we can pretty much do as we please and most of us just do what is reasonable.

that works!

curious on the inflator system, is it a compressor tucked away somewhere?

 

[Carpediem44DB]

Yes, I have a ridiculously large area under the helm and I wanted to install an air horn as well to replace the OEM POS so I installed an ultra quite 2.7 cfm
compressor and put it on its own switch on a circuit supplied by my inverter so it’s 110v. I killed two birds with one stone. I will eventually run a line down to the ER so I’ll have some air down there for cleaning and what not. I am installing an extra tank for more volume since the compressor is so small. I wanted it quite as possible. I’m pretty happy with the project so far.

 

[TheDudeAbides]

I put an on board air system on my old F350. I ended up getting a 3 gallon air tank from Harbor Freight for pretty cheap. It had metal brackets with rubber feet so it could sit on the ground. As such, It was real handy to have a bracket that could temporarily hold it and quick connects on the hose line. That way, if I had a job that the air line didn't reach and I didn't have the ability (or desire) to drag the compressor to what I was doing, I could just pop the line off the already filled tank & take the tank off the bracket in 5 seconds, then haul a filled 3-gallon air tank to whatever I was doing. It was plenty of capacity to fill most things and enough to run an air tool for a quick job. If you're going thru the trouble running the air line and mounting a tank, adding a couple more quick fittings will make it worth the couple times you may end up using it. Also suggest you add an extra ball valve between the compressor & tank so in the unlikely event the tank were to rupture, you could shut it off and still be able to use the compressor.