TUG’S NEW FENDER
GREAT LENGTH OF ROPE The new fender fitted to the Harbour Board’s tug Te Awhina this morning is the work of patient craftsmen. This piece of work weighs 1 ton 14 cwt., and contains more than one and a-quarter miles of new rope. The fender is made of old rope, new rope, and canvas. Old rope is sewn tightly up in a cigar-shaped canvas cover, and this is padded by the outside covering of new rope, halfhitched in spirals from the middle toward the ends. This covering consists of nine and a-half coils of twoinch coir, each coil being 120 fathoms, or 720 feet of the rope. Thus the total length of new rope in the fender is 1 mile 530 yards. Half-hitching this amount of rope is a tedious job, as each hitch takes in only a few inches. The rope is cut into 60ft. lengths, and this must be pulled through each hitch. Coir roping stands up to contact with sea water better than manila rope, which perishes. quickly when wet, whereas coir seems to be all the better for being wet.
The fender was made in the workroom of the harbourmaster’s department on Queen’s Wharf by two men. The Te Awhina’s old fender was removed the other day while she was on the slip undergoing her annual overhaul.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 11
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224TUG’S NEW FENDER Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 11
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