Fender Covers out of sweatpants

hakunamatata

hakunamatata

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Southport Marina - Kenosha WI - Lake Michigan
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I was searching for fender covers for the fenders I keep on the dock and stumbled across a YouTube video of a guy who took some sweatpants and turned them into covers. Thanks To my niece and grandma, I actually can use a sewing machine so decided to give it a whirl. They turned out pretty nice and for $24 at Walmart beats the $120-$160 I would've spent for actual ones. We'll see how they are all they are cracked up to be and how well they hold up.
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awesome, I wonder if you could waterproof them with some 303?
 
We have done this for several years - sure beats the expensive ones! You can get a couple of seasons out of a set of sweats.
 
I use the Taylor made cheap ones. soft, meshy, strecthy material. 19.00 for 2, and they dry almost instantly.
 
hakunamatata said:
Good to know. We'll see how badly they fade after one season.
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We used grey for the fenders that we had attached to the dock for the season - they blended into the weathered wood color. One year they faded badly and another year, they didn't fade at all - probably a sweat pants die quality issue as we didn't pay much for them at Wally World.
 
I just scored a LARGE fender, probably 12x36". It's a little tattered, but the sweatpants idea is the cats azz..
 
I did the sweatpants thing last year and they faded out so badly after a month that I just take them off. Be careful around wooden posts too; the sweatpants picked up a bunch of the splinters and other gunk and I actually thought they got MORE abrasive. If you can keep them clean though, they work great!
 
I made some out of my old bimini top sunbrella, was going to just throw it in the trash anyhow.

FIVE years later and still look great.
 
Mittens said:
I use the Taylor made cheap ones. soft, meshy, strecthy material. 19.00 for 2, and they dry almost instantly.
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Where do you find these? Looking on Amazon, cheapest I can find is around $30 for one of the very small size. Anything larger, and I'm looking at 45-65 each.
 
Walmart clearance on 5XL sweats for $1.

Heck at that price you know I'm going to try this idea out.
 
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