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Boat Hook on Steriods
Posted By: StormJib
Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/11/2016 01:22 PM
For all you skippers and crews who love the gadgets and technology here is one tool to separate your yacht and crew from the pack!
http://www.hookandmoor.com/videoWe should also note how the video also demonstrates the helmsman positioning the yacht at the appropriate speed for the crew to utilize the boat hook.
Posted By: SailorSteve
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/11/2016 05:52 PM
That's too cool <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" />
I could sure have used one while trying to pickup a mooring on a 50k lb boat in20 kts of wind this spring <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: sail2wind
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/11/2016 10:55 PM
Posted By: GlennA
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 12:41 AM
Yeah but it's kinda like the Clark pressure recovery pump used on some water makers. You can watch it for hours trying to figure out how the h**l it works! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: StormJib
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 12:54 AM
You can always get a kit like this and take one apart and put it back together again to determine how it really works...
Posted By: DanS
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 03:08 AM
If you watch the slow-mo part of the video at about 00:25 you can get a good idea of how it works.
The shackle is attached to a toothed, semi-circular hunk of metal. As you push the handle forward, a mechanism inside pushes the semi-circular hunk (that's the technical term) out from one side of the hook, and grabs and pulls it into the other side.
Pretty clever. It looks like the pieces have to be well aligned for it to work, so I wonder what happens after it gets knocked around a few times.
Dan <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Cheers.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: sail445
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 03:54 AM
Useless in the BVI where all the moorings have a pennent to pick up
Posted By: hallucination
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 01:00 PM
Far more useful is a 10ft boat hook. more more laying on your belly. Those 6 footers are useless when you have 6ft of freeboard.
Posted By: RickG
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 02:19 PM
hallucination said:
Far more useful is a 10ft boat hook. more more laying on your belly. Those 6 footers are useless when you have 6ft of freeboard.
Or, well, two of them, that float. Because, there was that one time at Norman Island.
Cheers, RickG
Posted By: Twanger
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 02:48 PM
We seem to drop a boat hook about once per charter.
Posted By: Breeze
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 04:19 PM
Chuckling to myself, I'm thinking, " oh, someone watched his mother and grandmother using a latch hook".
It is a latch hook on steroids.
<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
Posted By: SailorSteve
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 04:35 PM
Posted By: BaardJ
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/12/2016 05:03 PM
I purchased the 11' long Landing Loop last summer (~$79). Simple technology that enables one person to get a line around a dock cleat or piling from the 6.5' high deck on our catamaran. Our marina was usually unattended when we returned so this was invaluable.
It takes just a few minutes of practice at the dock for the assigned crew member to figure it out before heading out.
http://www.landingloop.com/
Posted By: warren460
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/13/2016 03:49 AM
Does the charter company make you pay for it?
Posted By: BaardJ
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/13/2016 01:25 PM
I bought it for my own use. It came in handy while in the Chesapeake. I keep it in my owner's locker as I don't want to encourage charterers to try to tie up at an unattended dock.
Posted By: Sailbum
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/13/2016 02:11 PM
Here's another approach. Adds on to existing boat hook. Pretty simple, and you could make it yourself, but probably not worth the time for the price.
http://www.dockingstick.com (horrible website)
Posted By: NCSailor
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/13/2016 04:10 PM
These things are about as useful as the salad spinner from Ronco
Posted By: captmoby
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/13/2016 04:32 PM
These things are about as useful as the salad spinner from Ronco
Gotta agree, Most dock lines stay on the dock. Unless you are chartering or cruising to distant places. However I have used a salad spinner before.
Posted By: YachtReprise
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/14/2016 01:11 AM
NCSailor said:
These things are about as useful as the salad spinner from Ronco
HAHAHAHA! Truedat! And you're showing your age!
Posted By: Sailbum
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/14/2016 03:21 AM
Not sure if any of these contraptions help. Don't own one. Though have been in some situations where I thought they might be useful.
One thing I know for sure. If you leave your dock lines on the dock you are missing 90% of what sailing is. Next time, take them with you and see where you end up.
Posted By: Kirk
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/15/2016 02:33 PM
Sailbum said:
One thing I know for sure. If you leave your dock lines on the dock you are missing 90% of what sailing is. Next time, take them with you and see where you end up.
This makes no sense to me on a couple different levels. Day sailing is sailing. Sailing somewhere and anchoring out is sailing. Sailing somewhere and staying at another marina is sailing....I don't need my dock lines for any of those...what's the 90% I'm missing?
Posted By: sail2wind
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/15/2016 05:48 PM
I don't get it either. I have 6 dock lines, why would I leave them on the dock, they are mine?
referring to leaving them on your dock I believe, the slip you actually keep the boat at not the ones you visit
and we leave dock lines on our permanent dock and have extra lines for docking elsewhere....guess Im not getting that either
Posted By: NCSailor
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/15/2016 06:44 PM
We boat on a lake. Sometimes on the coast. We return eventually to our slip. We have dock lines and shore power cords that stay at the dock. We have another set that travels with us. Not too hard to understand unless you want to emphasize that you are not tied down.
Posted By: Sailbum
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/16/2016 02:27 AM
I interpreted Captmoby's comment as suggesting that tools for getting docklines set were useless because "most docklines stay on the dock" - I believe that a large part of sailing is seeing new places; places where you don't have docklines preset and sometimes where your docking skills are tested. In some cases, some of these tools may help.
Just because a tool is useless to some (who return to their dock every day) doesn't make it useless to others (who sometimes don't).
Posted By: captmoby
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/16/2016 09:22 AM
Seeing new places?
Isn't that what an anchor is for?
Some of us that are lake sailors only have the slip or a quiet anchorage to "go" to after a days sail. Absolutely no reason to take your dock lines.
Posted By: sail2wind
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/16/2016 04:47 PM
"most dock lines stay on the dock" I get it if you own a boat and are permanently on a dock, however charter boats go from one bay or dock to another. You need fuel, water, or even overnight at Leverick, you need dock lines.
Posted By: captmoby
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/16/2016 10:59 PM
Totally agree, but are you gonna haul that boat hook with you on your trip down? When sailing my boat that is kept there the dock lines stay on the boat. Probably not totally necessary as there are always enough spares and other lines on the boat that will do if needed.
Posted By: sail2wind
Re: Boat Hook on Steriods - 08/17/2016 12:29 AM
no, the boat hook is on the boat