Wear to tubes

[paulb33]

Should I be concerned about this wear? I’m thinking it’s normal wear (from mooring ropes) on a superficial (non-integral) layer. So it can simply be over-patched for cosmetic reasons, correct?
(Apologies for noobie question)

Paul

[Xk59D]

Looks like may only be the wear patch needing replaced. Not ideal to have ropes rubbing on it, worth replacing it with more material and adding some C section (or cut D) rubber for the rope to sit in.

http://www.rib-shop.com/fairlead/

http://www.rib-shop.com/d-fender-rubbing-strake/

[paulb33]

Originally Posted by Xk59D

Looks like may only be the wear patch needing replaced.

Much appreciated. Thanks for the help! [emoji106]

[Dan Gurney]

Hi Paul,
That looks like a Redbay; ours has the same setup. On the rare occasions we use a mooring I usually attach a mooring line to eye on the bow rather than the Samson post on top of the anchor locker. I tie that off on the mooring so that the load is on the bow eye, but with a trailing end coming up into the boat so that I can haul the whole lot up over the side to cast off. (Can’t reach round to the bow eye whilst afloat)

If I was doing it regularly I’d probably rig up something with shackles, karabiners or similar so I didn’t have the possibility of excessive wear. I’d avoid running the load up over the tubes like that though.

Cheers

[paulb33]

Thanks Dan. If you get a chance to photo your rig that would be great.

[Dan Gurney]

Hi Paul. Fraid I don’t have anything permanent rigged up cos we very seldom use moorings for anything other than a quick tea stop. If I’m leaving her over night like when we’re on holiday I do it like this ( excuse my limited art skills):

Like I said *if* I did it regularly I might fix something up with a snap shackle/ karabiner to attach to the mooring to make deploying it easier.