Labelled bottle-boat fender

A bottle-boat fender formed of plastic and comprising a hollow body for holding a flowable material therein and including a top wall portion, having an opening communicating with the interior of the body, closure means releasably secured to the opening, a bottom wall portion and a sidewall disposed between the top wall and bottom wall and forming the periphery of the body, said sidewall being relatively thin and including a first pair of opposed wall portions, and a second pair of opposed wall portions, each of the wall portions of said first and second pairs merging together at respective corners, each of the opposed wall portions of said first pair including at least one tapered depression therein, each depression including an upper and a lower conically shaped surface and a pair of planar surfaces extending between corresponding ends of said conical surfaces, said planar surfaces being spaced from said corners to reduce stress concentrations thereat, each of said depressions tapering downward in cross-section towards its bottom, with the depression in one wall portion being aligned with a similarly constructed depression in the opposed wall portion, the bottom of the opposed aligned depressions forming a common wall having an aperture therein of sufficient size to accommodate a section of nautical rope therethrough, said aligned depressions being located below the top wall and above the bottom wall of said body, and removable label means in the form of a heat-shrunk plastic band frictionally engaged on the periphery of said sidewall and disposed over said depressions to give the bottle-boat fender a conventional merchandising bottle-like appearance, said label comprising an opaque portion bearing printed indicia and a transparent panel window portion located only over said first pair of opposed wall portions for exposing to view at least one of said depressions.