TAYLOR MADE PRODUCTS Taylor Made Tuff End Buoy, White (9") – Flexible, Strong, Marine-Grade Vinyl Buoy for 25-40 Foot Boats – Easy-to-use, Trivalve™ Inflates with Standard Ball Pump – 2020108079

Fourth one I have bought. Love this product and the manufacturer.

Ordered the 9" bouy which appears well made. Comes deflated. The screw-in valve leaked. Returned it. Ordered another bouy. The valve leaked. Called Taylor Made and customer service said they would send me several valves in case there was another bad one. It's been 1 1/2 weeks. Called customer service. They said it would be another week and had no idea when it shipped. Indifferent customer service representative. No offer to expedite shipping. I recommend an Atwood bouy. They come inflated. A bouy is only as good as the valve. Taylor Made is poorly made.

I didn't have to, but I took it apart just to see what all the shooting was about inflating this ball. I used a regular bicycle pump with a basketball needle. It was not necessary to use a Phillips screwdriver to unscrew the pin, and my seven year old did the hard work pumping. This is now in our leg holding up our irrigation pipe.

When delivered it's flat and needs inflating. The inflation valve is hard to reach in the fully deflated position. I was using the needle type method using a bike floor pump for inflating.Once you get some air the inside the fender it's much easier to inflate to full. Still when done, it shows crease marks from being stored flat. Hopefully those will come out over time. Seems as tough as any other Taylor Made fenders.

Bought it for someone else, but it looked like it was going to be very long lasting. I'll see how it does in the water oer a hard freeze in a few months.

Nice Buoy for our sons Boston Whaler .Easy for a 8 year old to handle and protects his 15ft Whaler when he is tying up to a neighbor dock or another boat!

This is the first Taylor Made ball I bought. Went to use for first time, ball was flat ! I didn’t use it for along time after it was installed so I just threw it away and ordered a new one . Checked this one,and it leaked right out of the box,so I returned it. No more wasting time on Taylor Made products as I can get the same quality from Temu.

Always seem to find just the right marine products on Amazon.Com..9" ball ideal for a temporary mooring@ anchor for my Sailboat and works and stores easy as a fender...

I was going to give this 1 star, because it doesn't come with a nozzle to fill it with water. However, since it isn't meant for boxing (what I use it for), I'm giving it 4 stars.The plug is kind of difficult to unscrew and screw back in.With that said, I was able to (finally) mount it in my basement, and it works better than expected as a punching bag, given that I was only able to fill it about 75%.