Boat hook securing clips

[SpottyDog5]

Please can any one suggest where I might get these from ?
I have found one website but at £26.99 each, and needing two, I just cannot justify to expense, they are not even stainless.
Boat hook has on 1" dia handle.
Thanks to all

 

[dt4134]

Can you not just get those plastic pipe clips from your local plumber's merchant? Failing that I've seen them on Seascrew's website (www.seascrew.co.uk) - the plastic ones that is.

 

[SpottyDog5]

Can you not just get those plastic pipe clips from your local plumber's merchant? Failing that I've seen them on Seascrew's website (www.seascrew.co.uk) - the plastic ones that is.

I have the plastic ones, but they seemed to have lost there grip,was hoping to find something better.
Thanks anyway...

 

[Zagato]

Make your own from an eyelet and a hook with bungee chord holding the boat hook.

 

[Leighb]

We just tie ours to the coachroof handrails using leather shoe laces from worn out deck shoes. Cost £0-00

 

[rob2]

One of my boathooks now resides in a redundant vertical tube where the old danbuoy lived. Very easy to grab it from the helm!

Rob.

 

[electrosys]

http://www.proboat.co.uk/item.asp?cat_id=45&prod_id=593&dep=1

with a loop of bungee cord across the horns ?

 

[Seajet]

The generally accepted name for those clips ( I'm sure there are plenty of others ) is 'Terry Clips'.


Normally the white plastic ones with a chunky base - sometimes a single fixing point so must be secure to avoid swivelling - are pretty good, won't lose their spring.

 

[pampas]

Terry clips are made in stainless and in most common sizes.

 

[Seajet]

I know what you mean, maybe 'terry clips are also made in stainless', anyway they are called that in aviation, I'm pretty sure in sailing too; when I worked at a chandlery we called them Terry clips for the method they work in, no matter what the material; so hopefully asking for Terry clips at a chandlery shouldn't result in a funny look.

Unless it's the sort of 'chandlery' which aims to flog clothing, then you could be in trouble !

 

[Searush]

On passage, my boathook & deck brush lie behind the handrails on the cabin top with the handle end slipped under the sprayhood. No ties required even in bad weather/ overfalls. In between times, they sit in a cupboard.

 

[Cloven]

We just tie ours to the coachroof handrails using leather shoe laces from worn out deck shoes. Cost £0-00

Just as cheap - we store ours inside the boom with just the hook showing & held in place by a short length of shock cord. Ready for action from in the cockpit.

 

[status]

If you want something a little more robust than the domestic white plastic clips could try 'Cobra Clips' from Pipe Centre or similar. Black plastic but more chunky for industrial apps. Avaliable in 1".

Stuart

 

[alahol2]

A couple of rope loops from the lower lifeline behind the dodgers is where we keep ours. Always available, not overly visible to tealeaves.

 

[SpottyDog5]

Thanks for all the posts, I've picked up a couple of clips from Marine superstore, this afternoon, they appear to be made out of a black nylon material, and seem very strong.
I found them in the "raggie bits" area, made by Holt. So I've no idea what they really are !
Cost £2.50 for 2
Cheers

 

[jswindel]

I hang my boathooks in stainless boathook-hooks, under the side deck. Keeps them to hand and stops them sliding about. I bought the hooks on ebay for not very much.

 

[William_H]

Boat hooks

Thanks for all the posts, I've picked up a couple of clips from Marine superstore, this afternoon, they appear to be made out of a black nylon material, and seem very strong.
I found them in the "raggie bits" area, made by Holt. So I've no idea what they really are !
Cost £2.50 for 2
Cheers

Yes that is a better price, though somewhat more than I paid for my last boat hook (head attached to old broom handle)
Good luck olewill

 

[jswindel]

Yes that is a better price, though somewhat more than I paid for my last boat hook (head attached to old broom handle)
Good luck olewill

If you look at the lower boat hook in the photo above it is a... head attached to an old broom handle. Working without fault for over 20 years AND it is a very accuarte depth sounder in depths up to 1m. Deeper than that is deep water to me.

 

[prv]

My boathooks run along the edges of the coachroof through sturdy wooden brackets. This allows them to double as handrails, which I think is neat and avoids the standard scrappy bit of bungee doing its best to hold a brush and boathook somewhere approximately near to a handrail. I also like the danbuoy-style pushpit tubes, as long as the boathook is reasonably short (generally telescopic). My deck brush lives in the stern locker, from which it runs under the side deck outboard of the cockpit. I keep meaning to install a length of pipe for it to sit in, to avoid it poking any of the holding tank hoses that also live there.

Pete

 

[jswindel]

My boathooks run along the edges of the coachroof through sturdy wooden brackets. This allows them to double as handrails, which I think is neat...
Pete

I've seen this done on the old Cornish Yawl. I thought it was a neat solution at first. But then I thought, "when you are using your boathook, you have no hand rail, probably at a time (reaching for a buoy) when you might really want one". Has htis ever been a problem?