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  1. Thanks for the responses. Yes, I always leave 3 fenders permanently on the visitors side (a habit from Med mooring ); but it looks like I have to move another.;( Incidentally it didn't help when the speed boat hit me: A few weeks ago I came back from shopping to see a brand new 600$K NZD( the price sticker still attached! classy) yacht berthed next to me fenders all tied up beautifully on the stern it was a cross wind so again I have no doubt they collected my fenders on the reverse in; and the gap was also very small, i looked for damage nothing obvious.. I really thought about going
  2. Hi, Just recently arrived in New Zealand after sailing from Europe and would like to ask kiwis why not deploying fenders is so common here. In Europe it's unheard of to not deploy fenders both for your own boat and for others in case a small mistake ends up in contact. But here in NZ I find i’m often fending off kiwi boats coming into the adjacent berths without any fenders down, It’s become infuriating. Yesterday a big aluminium work boat came in trying to squeeze into my double berth with no fenders down , I shouted at them to deploy their fenders and they le
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