101 uses for a wire coathanger, no 4

[Twister_Ken]

Assuming hanging clothes is number one, an emergency car radio aerial is number two, and a long hook for a retrieving a chart that has 'inadvertently' been posted under the hatch garage is number three, then here's number four.

A hook for catching a lazyjack that has somehow been blown over top of a spreader and caught around a steaming light on the front of a mast, such that it cannot be returned to its normal position in any other way than sending a reluctant SWMBO up the mast.

Instructions: tape to a pole uphaul and manoeuvre it to catch the lazyjack, then haul it forward away from the steaming light and tighten the lazyjack to allow it to resume normal service.

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Good idea.

Used to happen to our main halyard.

We used to tie a fishing sinker to a crab line (without hooks of course) through the triangle formed by mast, crosstree and shroud. We then tied it and a light line onto the halyard that was caught and hauled it through so it was in forward of the mast and could then be unhooked. Pull on the light line to reverse the process.

We had the whole thing down as a slick routine and could eventually complete the process in a couple of hours!

I prefer your way.

 

[photodog]

Ahhh.. Very clever.

I can give you use number 5....

Which btw i will not post a photo of... Though one exists...

To use as a probe for attempting to unblock a lavac from the ouside via the thru hull whlst swimming alongside when anchored up in nonsuch bay, antigua.


Fortunatley it did not work.

 

[aitchem]

Used one last week
Pulling a cable trough a inacessible void between 2 bulkheads.

 

[maybh1]

Mr S used one three weeks ago to break into the boat as he left the keys at home

Only took him 40 minutes standing in a freezing gale in the pitch dark

May
Xx

 

[Sans Bateau]

Thats not fair TK, I was going to do the chart recovery, seeing it was my coat hanger!

 

[Seajet]

Wire coat hangers can be easily converted into a fine pair of dowsing rods.

Breaks the ice at parties, squire...

 

[tcm]

Number 6

agreed, number 6 is as a mousing tool

 

[Ripster]

Use No7 - a poker to unblock my deck drain. A good prod around with a bit of Coat Hanger and squirt from the hose - all fixed

 

[ianat182]

Sunday went down to complete repairs to my tender's trolley; a friend had welded a new stub axle using bar and drilled the holes for the split pin - but forgot to leave the captive pins and 1" i /d washers. I found an abandoned 3mm wirecoat hanger and made 4 of them 2 spare for another time when needed.

ianat182

 

[rwoofer]

Reminds me of the Viz top tip -

Car aerials make good emergency coat hangers.

 

[tcm]

Reminds me of the Viz top tip -

Car aerials make good emergency coat hangers.

My current favourite is "Make your own bleach by simply blending non-ionic surfactants, sodium hypochlorite, sodium hydroxide and carbomethyl cellulose"

 

[NPMR]

We found that to stop a halyard flipping round in front of the mast, and therefore any need for a fancy bent coat hanger on a pole to get it back (About 10 minutes with a boat hook tied to a spinnaker pole in our case) was to put some light string from the radar reflector on the front of the mast to each shroud. One to port and one to starboard.

Since we did that, we've not had a problem.

And no need for a coat hook.

Except to hang a coat on, of course.

 

[dedwards]

Used one last week
Pulling a cable trough a inacessible void between 2 bulkheads.

I need to do that but dont have a metal coat hanger. Where can you get them from nowadays??

 

[Twister_Ken]

I need to do that but dont have a metal coat hanger. Where can you get them from nowadays??

Galadriel has a few spares!

 

[prv]

I need to do that but dont have a metal coat hanger. Where can you get them from nowadays??

Dry cleaning / laundry places give your stuff back on them. I have loads at the bottom of my wardrobe.

(If you just want wire, rather than coathangers specifically, B&Q galvanised fencing wire will do nicely.)

Pete

 

[gregcope]

Why has no one included a Coat Hanger in the "essential tools in toolkit" posts.

I need to find an add one. Tonight.

No idea how I survived without one....

 

[Sybarite]

Assuming hanging clothes is number one, an emergency car radio aerial is number two, and a long hook for a retrieving a chart that has 'inadvertently' been posted under the hatch garage is number three, then here's number four.

A hook for catching a lazyjack that has somehow been blown over top of a spreader and caught around a steaming light on the front of a mast, such that it cannot be returned to its normal position in any other way than sending a reluctant SWMBO up the mast.

Instructions: tape to a pole uphaul and manoeuvre it to catch the lazyjack, then haul it forward away from the steaming light and tighten the lazyjack to allow it to resume normal service.

Opening a car door when you've locked the keys inside.

 

[Skysail]

Dry cleaning / laundry places give your stuff back on them. I have loads at the bottom of my wardrobe.


Pete

So did we once. They were adjacent to the Autohelm compass (don't ask why it was put there, not me guv ..... the deviation was frightening. SWMBO now uses plastic coat hangers.

 

[prv]

Opening a car door when you've locked the keys inside.

+1, except I used a length of welding rod. Surprisingly easy to do.

Pete