Best locking style chain hook ?

[prv]

I do also want a snubber for my chain pendant

OK, but why the hook?

Pete

 

[Hadenough]

I gave up on chain hooks and returned to a rolling hitch...less fiddly, more secure and quicker.

And it goes over the bow roller easily.

 

[Neeves]

I would have thought it unlikely that the chain you use in your mooring and the chain you have on your yacht are the same size consequently the chain hook for a snubber would be smaller than the one for the mooring, unless your mooring is a bit skinny. If you use a chain hook for your anchor chain that is too large there is high risk of it falling off. I think you progress as you suggest you need 2 chain hooks, one for the mooring with short snubber and smaller hook to match the anchor chain on a long snubber - even the snubbers will be different sizes.

The Mantus chain hook is fine if agricultural. It works well and the latch is good. It is just a monster, grossly over engineered, and the stainless one is expensive.

Jonathan

 

[Delfin]

Thanks for the replies so far, the two types I know of are the Wichard one posted above :

and the Kong one see here :

Anyone tried both and have a preference ?

Boo2

Used the bottom one for quite awhile, and it will not come off. Now use soft shackles, which are much stronger, and also never come off.

 

[Orion Jim]

I have used the "bottom" one, the Kong, for several years and I'm very happy with it. Were I to ever lose it I'd replace it with the same. I like to stick with things which work reliably on the boat once it has proven itself. The pin is captive and never binds. I've always been able to unscrew the pin by hand, even after 4 weeks of constant use during my recent Bermuda cruise.

 

[Neeves]

The Kong would need the pin moused in a mooring application, I assume, another fiddle to attach and a fiddle to undo.

 

[vyv_cox]

I have been trying to think of the longest single period in which we have used one of our conventional unlatched hooks with the snubber at anchor. I can recall a couple of times in mostly quite windy weather but with near calm periods at either end. Several of seven nights, maybe a few of slightly more. Neither hook has ever fallen off, and with a good loop of chain to keep the load on the hook it is difficult to see how it could ever happen.

 

[duncan99210]

We used the Kong for a time. It had the disadvantage of needing the pin to be screwed home: in the end I put a bolt through the hole in the pin to create a wing nut effect. Made things a bit easier. However, we sat out a big blow which bent the pin so far out of shape that it couldn't be removed and we had to cut the thing off. Now just use a hook which has never dropped off provided a big enough loop of chain has been let out.

 

[NormanS]

I have been trying to think of the longest single period in which we have used one of our conventional unlatched hooks with the snubber at anchor. I can recall a couple of times in mostly quite windy weather but with near calm periods at either end. Several of seven nights, maybe a few of slightly more. Neither hook has ever fallen off, and with a good loop of chain to keep the load on the hook it is difficult to see how it could ever happen.

+1. See post #11.