Yeah, ok. In the Med we'd probably deploy them anyway as you don't know who's going to wobble their boat near yours but I can see that there's more space there and less livelihood of someone wanting to bang around one's hull, and nobody's going to raft up.RTH10260 wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 10:18 amYou only deploy fenders at the dock side. Except you are parking your superyacht in Monaco or any other fancy port in the Mediterrenean, tight parking there.Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 2:17 am Is it normal to park one's "large luxury yacht" without fenders – either the traditional sausage-shaped balloons or heavy duty sex dolls if a pervert skipper prefers?
Costs nothing to deploy them and definitely protects the boat better than leaving them inboard.
I guess the Kraptain hasn't yet reached that chapter of Sailing For Dummies.
ps. I am not sure it is prudent to hoist that curly snake flag, yellow means generally quarantined ....
I might still pop them out, not much effort, gets them out of the boat, unlikely to do any harm, could avoid a nasty scratch.