Any idea what this pic is of?

[guernseyman]

I found something similar when I bought our boat 15 years ago. The only use I found for it was poking weed downwards out of the engine seawater cooling inlet cock.
(The bend is a cunning device for preventing loss of the apparatus if you let go.)

 

[boatmike]

Na! It's an organ grinders monkey key used for winding up forumites!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Benkinson-Stephens offset cranked spurriform.

 

[Lakesailor]

I think you may find that the Benkinson-Stephens version was imperial and this seems to be metric one which would make it the Olaf-Bergenstrom offset cranked spurriform.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Forgive me for assuming it would be the Imperial version, rather than the Continental. You are, of course, correct. The Olaf-Bergenstrom version it is. From the Jjallkronen factory, I suspect. Knut Reimer, who sailed on 'Redd Oktober' with the Faroes Admiral's cup team holds that many of them were exported to the Icelandic marketplace to find an unexpected use as puffin clubbers.

 

[davidfox]

you need help

 

[Twister_Ken]

Quite possibly.

 

[alant]

Certainly is your emergency tiller.

However, before you struggle to use it in earnest (because your steering cables have broken or jumped off the steering quadrant, try steering with your autohelm. This should still be attached to your quadrant & make life a bit easier.
Your wheel won't turn of course. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif